Hey all,

My father recently picked up a set of ASA JS6 wheels with snow tires for his S2K, from a seller who used them on his own S2000, prior to selling it. He got a complete set of lug nuts with the wheels, which seemed good, considering a prior post here suggested that the factory lug nuts would not work on these wheels. Presumably, these are the lug nuts that the original owner got when he purchased the popular package from Tire Rack, but they don't seem to grab as many threads as the stock wheel/lug nut combination.

Is there any specific number of turns that should be expected of this winter wheel/tire combination? I think Tire Rack says 6.5 turns after hardware engagement is the bare minimum, but I don't think we're getting quite that—perhaps 5 turns. Any advice here would be welcome.

 

Make sure there isn't something like a hubcentric ring stuck to the hub that is keeping the wheel from fitting flush. If the wheel is flush against the hub and you get 5-6 turns with the proper lug type then I would feel safe running that for a winter setup.

 

I'm pretty sure there's no ring stuck to the hub or anything, but we'll definitely check that out. The lug nuts are tapered, which I believe is the correct type, but I'm not so sure they're tapered enough, but I'll assume that if we can get those 5-6 turns, that'll be "good enough." Thanks for the reply...

 

Do you have a torque wrench? I'm fairly certain factory spec is ~82-86 lbs. (IIRC)

That might be a little easier than counting turns

 

Hah, also true, and I have a torque wrench, but my concern is that even if the lug nuts are torqued to spec, it might not be enough if all that torque is only being applied through just a few threads. It's been a while since I've taken physics though, so maybe my thought here might not even matter, haha...

 

I think I misunderstood your OP. If it's only on a few threads then yes, to me that would be cause for alarm. Depends on how many though. 2-3? I'd be nervous. 6-8? Maybe not so much.

 

Nope, you didn't misunderstand at all.

The car and wheels are actually my father's, and I haven't tried to put the wheels on it yet, but from what he told me is that the nuts weren't grabbing a lot of threads before becoming hand tight, after which he was only able to get a few complete (i.e., 360 degree) revolutions. So it's both a concern of number of turns (which, admittedly, isn't a terrible useful quantity) and number of threads engaged before getting to the point where the nuts are finger tight, I suppose.

The previous owner supposedly had these wheels and lug nuts on his S2000 for a few winters with no problems, but it's one thing to hear that and another to be driving the car with the wheels possibly loose. Thanks for all the replies!