Wheel nut thread depth

[speedyblue]

I know this was discussed in another thread, but I cannot find it now.

If you run newer alloy wheels and the wheel studs don't come out through to surface of the wheel nuts, how many turns of thread is safe for a street car that see's some spirited driving. The wheel nuts i have are deeper than the stock ones.

Basically, I'm lazy and don't want to pull the rear stub axles to install longer studs. But if it comes to it, I may just have to. But this takes the car off the road for a short period and it might get attacked by the WIAI virus. This could be a problem for a car that I drive to work every day.

Cheers

Scott

[Arne]

When used to sell custom wheels for a living, we went by the rule that a 12 mm stud must have 12 mm of engagement. So on a 12x1.25 that would be almost 10 full turns. FWIW...

[speedyblue]

That sounds pretty reasonable to me. Might have to pull off the old wheel and check it out.