My Cousin left me a set of winter wheels and tires from his Mazda 6. I mounted them this weekend and in the process of doing so noticed something strange (after checking 5 times to confirm).
One of the steel wheels is slightly different from the other 3 in one important way... the hub face is not as deep as the other three, thus exposing the bolts with a longer depth. The stock nuts that came with the GT barely fit over the bolts and I think aren't on even tight enough because I have them seated until the bolt is touching the inside end of the nut. I can tell when torquing this wheel compared to the other three it's different. The have visible thread about 10 mm longer than the other three wheels from the visual inspection. I thought it might be a fluke that Mazda used different mounting bolts on this corner of the car but after carefully looking at the markings stamped into the steel wheel (like the 16" x 6.5", etc.), I noticed that three of them say 903 and one of them says 911. Are these numbers referencing that hub offset or thickness or maybe a model number?
I thought that all these steel wheels would be the same hub thickness/distance from the actual hub. Any suggestions? Get longer nuts (haha, make your jokes), a new steel wheel that matches the other three or use a hub spacer of some type?
Thanks.
One of the steel wheels is slightly different from the other 3 in one important way... the hub face is not as deep as the other three, thus exposing the bolts with a longer depth. The stock nuts that came with the GT barely fit over the bolts and I think aren't on even tight enough because I have them seated until the bolt is touching the inside end of the nut. I can tell when torquing this wheel compared to the other three it's different. The have visible thread about 10 mm longer than the other three wheels from the visual inspection. I thought it might be a fluke that Mazda used different mounting bolts on this corner of the car but after carefully looking at the markings stamped into the steel wheel (like the 16" x 6.5", etc.), I noticed that three of them say 903 and one of them says 911. Are these numbers referencing that hub offset or thickness or maybe a model number?
I thought that all these steel wheels would be the same hub thickness/distance from the actual hub. Any suggestions? Get longer nuts (haha, make your jokes), a new steel wheel that matches the other three or use a hub spacer of some type?
Thanks.
