HoosierDaddy
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I was researching wheel lock lug nuts. I had ruled out McGard early on BUT noticed some strange things.
When doing search by vehicle, none of the locking lug sets with or without matching 16 matching non-locking lug nuts have bulge in their descriptions even when the factory and most aftermarket wheels require the extra contact area of bulge.
While I had ruled out McGard as being too easy to defeat one per wheel, I considered if 5 per wheel might be a significantly bigger deterrent. I noticed McGard sold some sets with 5 locks (one for externally mounted spare). So, I asked McGard support if I could buy 4 sets of those and put a full set on each road wheel.
They went nuts (no pun intended), warning that doing that would void their and likely wheel warranties. I had the impression they may have added me to some watch list. LoL
Any explanation for any of that?
Only thing I can think of that doesn't really make a lot of sense is that they may not make any locking lug nuts with a bulge seat and are assuming if the other studs have bulge nuts on them, the wheels would not be compromised by less contact area on just one (the lock).
When doing search by vehicle, none of the locking lug sets with or without matching 16 matching non-locking lug nuts have bulge in their descriptions even when the factory and most aftermarket wheels require the extra contact area of bulge.
While I had ruled out McGard as being too easy to defeat one per wheel, I considered if 5 per wheel might be a significantly bigger deterrent. I noticed McGard sold some sets with 5 locks (one for externally mounted spare). So, I asked McGard support if I could buy 4 sets of those and put a full set on each road wheel.
They went nuts (no pun intended), warning that doing that would void their and likely wheel warranties. I had the impression they may have added me to some watch list. LoL
Any explanation for any of that?
Only thing I can think of that doesn't really make a lot of sense is that they may not make any locking lug nuts with a bulge seat and are assuming if the other studs have bulge nuts on them, the wheels would not be compromised by less contact area on just one (the lock).
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