are unilugs good wheels for a Mazda?

[Breezy]

Hi
I'm looking at some wheels and wonder if unilug wheels bolt to a Mazda without spacers/adapters, etc.

I'll be doing some tracking so I'm not going to go unilug if these wheels don't bolt up cleanly.

Also with all those drill holes are unilug wheels too weak for tracking?

BTW, I did search the forum for "unilug" but found nothing of value so maybe a thread just about unilug is a good thing to have.

 

[BillTheCat]

I've never used unilugs, simply because of the horror stories I have heard about them. Lots of stripped lug studs, difficult to balance, supposedly difficult to align, and I have read many times that after taking an hour to surgically install the darned things, you need to check the lug torque multiple times over the first few hundred miles to make sure they aren't coming loose.

Sounds like too much trouble, IMHO.

 

[Breezy]

Thanks Bill. I was wondering if the Mazda bolt pattern requires any spacers, etc to work on them. Seems like so many wheels are unilug these days.

 

[KaiserSoze]

I think the two of you are referring to two different type of wheels. Real unilug wheels (that I think Bill is talking about) have 5 oval shaped holes in them and most people hate them. Breezy, if you are referring to rims that have the universal holes in them, (i.e. 10 holes-5 that are 5x100 and 5 more that are 5x114.5) there's no danger in running them.