So I was driving today with my friend and I was telling her that it's crazy that everytime we're together some **** always happens to my car. First time my coolant hose burst when we tried to go rancho to get car parts, overheating my car. Second time my car overheated so much and we had to turn back from rancho. 3rd time we tried to go to San Jose so someone decided it would be funny to duct tape metal and throw it on the freeway so it caught onto my wheel and ripped it off while taking a chunk of my front bumper, headlights, and sideskirt off. Then, after saying what I said today, something flew of from my car, so I decided to play it safe and pull over. Found out my wheel stud snapped off along with my lugnut. I guess it was worn, idk. But, good thing I stopped because it loosened all the lugnuts for that wheel and it couldve caused more damage.

Anyways, when I brought my car home I showed my brother and he told me to just replace it with arp extended studs and lugnuts because he used to run his oem gsr blades on his ek with aftermarket extended lugnuts and studs and I have hx rims. So, my question is... Is it okay to put extended lugnuts on extended arp studs on oem wheels just because they're not oem anymore? Because I understand when you have oem studs and wheels you're supposed to use oem ball seat lugnuts. I'm new to this so I'm confused. Thanks.

 

if you have extend wheel studs. as long as you have open ended lug nuts your fine.
12x.5 jus make sure they are tight....not being tight and hitting a bump will snap studs. but put ARP studs on and youl be set...and cool

 

If you have OEM wheels, you need to run a lug nut with a ball seat. If you want some open-ended lug nuts to use with extended studs, you can get them from a Honda dealer or from a CRX Si in the junkyard. Part number is 90381-SV1-901. They are 1.42 each from Majestic Honda.

If you must run aftermarket lug nuts with OEM wheels, you need to run an adapter with a ball seat. SSR makes these and you can find them at:

http://www.clubrsx.com/cr/SSR-WHEELWASHER.html

 

i have used all kinds of aftermarket lug nuts with oem wheels without problems as long as they are tightend by a 2 yr old

 

Good for you. That doesn't make it any more safe because you're lucky enough to not have had your rim fall off yet. Taken straight from the FAQ in the Rim and Tire forum:

Don't do it. Either run lug nut adapters or buy the correct lug nuts for your OEM wheels.

 

my suggestion is to just replace the broken stud with an oem length stud and lug nut. installing extended studs requires pressing off the hubs and most likely replacing the wheel bearing because the inner race will seperate and be stuck on the hub.

you can fix the oem stud without even removing the hub, plus its way cheaper. extended studs should only be used if required for track duty (i know the drag strip requires extended studs when running slicks) other than that its pointless

 

^^ my thoughts exactly.

 

What's the difference in replacing an oem stud with an extended one as opposed to replacing an oem with oem?

 

Agreed, unless your running slicks at the track you should just stick to oem length. It also takes twice as long to take off/put on lug nuts with extended studs, since they are way longer. It gets annoying.

 

with oem length you can get the stud behind the hub while its still on the car. then use a lugnut and a few washers to pull it tight into the hub. extended studs are too long to use this method requiring the hub to be removed (which requires a press and new bearing)

 

alright i got a ? i bought blox extended lug nuts and wheel studs i just want to know if the 12x1.5 stud will fit the stock eg hub...thanks