Okay here is the situation;
Bought some new wheels for my vehicle and come to find out that the holes for the lug bolts on the wheel are designed for 12mm and VW uses 14mm lug bolts, however the bolt pattern of 5x100 is correct. So I contact the person I got them from and told him this, and requested a refund since the wheels will not fit my vehicle (VW actually only has one model year that used 12mm x 1.5 lug bolts with a 5x100 pattern and that was the 92-97 Passat V6). Well he is balking on the refund and says that he has can get me adapters that would change the bolt size from 14mm x 1.5 to 12mm x 1.5 ... no word on how it will effect the offset. My question is this, do you guys think this kind of adapter is safe? I cant believe that stepping down the size of the lug bolts on a car would be a good thing as the manufacturer used 14mm lug bolts for a reason.
What do you guys think?
Aaron
Bought some new wheels for my vehicle and come to find out that the holes for the lug bolts on the wheel are designed for 12mm and VW uses 14mm lug bolts, however the bolt pattern of 5x100 is correct. So I contact the person I got them from and told him this, and requested a refund since the wheels will not fit my vehicle (VW actually only has one model year that used 12mm x 1.5 lug bolts with a 5x100 pattern and that was the 92-97 Passat V6). Well he is balking on the refund and says that he has can get me adapters that would change the bolt size from 14mm x 1.5 to 12mm x 1.5 ... no word on how it will effect the offset. My question is this, do you guys think this kind of adapter is safe? I cant believe that stepping down the size of the lug bolts on a car would be a good thing as the manufacturer used 14mm lug bolts for a reason.
What do you guys think?
Aaron
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