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"UPDATE" CORRECT "PIMPLE" TOP CHROME LUG NUTS
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05/21/09 05:45 AM
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Fooling around here at the shop and copied an original chrome lug nut that has the parting mark from the screw machine from back in the day. The thought is to make these nuts, I think the demand for the correct nut just might be there. If they get made, they will be available in right handed threads only. Since left handed studs are hard to find and many originals were broke off from a monkey that didn’t know better, I was thinking about stamping the “L” on half of them before chroming so they look correct on the car without having to go through the drama of left handed studs.
I’m projecting the price right around the same as the MOPAR Performance lug nuts that are currently available.
Last edited by HEMICUDA; 05/28/09 04:19 AM.
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Re: CORRECT "PIMPLE" TOP CHROME LUG NUTS
[Re: HEMICUDA]
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05/21/09 07:21 AM
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Mike, This is an item that I know that I certainly need as your lug nuts seem to be more flat than tapererd like the current ones that I have. It seems that a lot of the lug nut holes on the rims were "over torqued" and mushroomed out the holes so the less taper the lug nuts have, the better it would tighten to the wheel. Seems like another quality product that you are going to offer. I also like the ideas of the L stamping in them too. 
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Re: CORRECT "PIMPLE" TOP CHROME LUG NUTS
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05/21/09 10:32 AM
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I was thinking about stamping the “L” on half of them before chroming so they look correct on the car without having to go through the drama of left handed studs.
Oh I can see it now "Da#% new "L" left-hand lug nuts won't go on, spent all afternoon trying to get them on.  "
or "Ah we have a small problem with the left side lug nuts on that old car you just brought in to have the wheels balanced......the mechanic just got this new Snap On air gun and.....well he quit at eight broken lug bolts the other two are still good"   .
And I'm going to be a little p!$$#d if I buy another set of lug nuts that were advertised as "L" left-hand NOS MOPAR lug nuts on the bag and when they arrived and after paying twice what they were worth they were right-hand lug nuts, emailed the seller and they said oops but we're not taking them back.  Mike I'm not saying or even implying that situation with you, I'm just saying that someone, someday down the road will probably make that "mistake" knowing that an "L" means left-hand thread. Then there's those stinking ISO and NHTSA standards, will they even allow you to mark them as something they are not  .
I want a set regardless but there are somethings that need consideration.
MikeR
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Re: CORRECT "PIMPLE" TOP CHROME LUG NUTS
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05/21/09 11:38 AM
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Economy of scale, is there really enough volume to run left handed lug nuts? I totally agree with the comments 100%, problem is, I'm not going to take that gamble financially. If someone else wants to put up for the 5,000 left handed lug nuts that would have to be run I’ll be more than happy to do that for them. The thought is to, at least, have the correct outward appearance that couldn’t be noticed unless it was removed. I haven’t seen the requirement of removing lug nuts during OE judging yet. I can’t see making the left handed studs so the lugs will sell.
Mike, where did you get lug nuts that were stamped with the letter ”L” and had the parting mark on the top that were right hand thread?
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Re: CORRECT "PIMPLE" TOP CHROME LUG NUTS
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05/21/09 11:49 AM
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Mike, I agree with 100% the issue will be for someone who DOES have the left hand studs and WANTS to have the correct nuts would then be required to remove said studs to now install these nice shiny new nuts I know I sell about every left hand stud I can get my hands on, but All left hands studs have been discontinued from the manufacturer.So getting them is only going to get worst. Good luck with either direction you take. 
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Re: CORRECT "PIMPLE" TOP CHROME LUG NUTS
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05/21/09 11:54 AM
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Michael, the photo and description on the ebay sellers ad said and showed the lug nuts with a "L" and the heading for the listing was NOS Left-Hand Thread Lug Nuts" and the ad read "very rare left-hand thread NOS Mopar Lug Nuts" and even made reference to the "dimple". I was high bidder and paid for them and waited and waited for weeks for them to show up (the seller was only 50-miles away). When they finally arrived they were right-hand without a "L" which was the first thing I noticed when I saw the bag and part number and said to myself "you have just been screwed" (thread pun there for this thread  ). So I didn't get right-hand thread lug nuts with a "L" on them but the photo and description in the ad did say they were. Now if someone doesn't say anything and just shows a photo of the right-hand thread lug nuts with the "L" what would you ASS-U-ME they were and bid them to the moon? MikeR
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Re: CORRECT "PIMPLE" TOP CHROME LUG NUTS
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05/21/09 12:06 PM
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Michael, the photo and description on the ebay sellers ad said and showed the lug nuts with a "L" and the heading for the listing was NOS Left-Hand Thread Lug Nuts" and the ad read "very rare left-hand thread NOS Mopar Lug Nuts" and even made reference to the "dimple". I was high bidder and paid for them and waited and waited for weeks for them to show up (the seller was only 50-miles away). When they finally arrived they were right-hand without a "L" which was the first thing I noticed when I saw the bag and part number and said to myself "you have just been screwed" (thread pun there for this thread ).
So I didn't get right-hand thread lug nuts with a "L" on them but the photo and description in the ad did say they were. Now if someone doesn't say anything and just shows a photo of the right-hand thread lug nuts with the "L" what would you ASS-U-ME they were and bid them to the moon?
MikeR
I'm in the process of checking cost to make the left handed thread, however, I have a feeling the selling price will have to triple because the market isn't there. I have yet to have a 70 car, except my survivor, that didn't have most if not all the studs changed from the first time someone snapped the stud off because they didn't know any better. I really feel that we would have to make the stud to sell that nut to an already limited market. Most guys are not going to knock out all the studs and replace them so they can have a nut with an "L" on it. I would guess 2% will go through the drama and we are all here on MOPARTS.
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Re: CORRECT "PIMPLE" TOP CHROME LUG NUTS
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05/21/09 12:07 PM
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Mike,
I agree with 100% the issue will be for someone who DOES have the left hand studs and WANTS to have the correct nuts would then be required to remove said studs to now install these nice shiny new nuts
I know I sell about every left hand stud I can get my hands on, but All left hands studs have been discontinued from the manufacturer.So getting them is only going to get worst.
Good luck with either direction you take.
5000 / by 10 = 500 sales. Now how many of us have converted to right-hand thread lug bolts and nuts because we can't find correct left-hand dimpled Mopar style lug nuts or even lug bolts, I know I did on several cars. I got tired of searching and never finding them or if you did you almost always get out bid for some stupidly high bid at the last moments. In my opinion there are more sources for almost correct or at least close to correct with or without the dimple right-hand lug nuts, and very few if any sources for even left-hand lug BOLTS (as Bill points out) so I think I should PM you and invest in that left-handed project but only if we do the correct LH lug bolts too.....
If you can show me a source for correct LH lug nuts then the deals off.....but I we all know there isn't one.......corner the market there's a demand for them IMO.
MikeR
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Re: CORRECT "PIMPLE" TOP CHROME LUG NUTS
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05/21/09 12:12 PM
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Fooling around here at the shop and copied an original chrome lug nut that has the parting mark from the screw machine from back in the day. The thought is to make these nuts, I think the demand for the correct nut just might be there. If they get made, they will be available in right handed threads only. Since left handed studs are hard to find and many originals were broke off from a monkey that didn’t know better, I was thinking about stamping the “L” on half of them before chroming so they look correct on the car without having to go through the drama of left handed studs.
I’m projecting the price right around the same as the MOPAR Performance lug nuts that are currently available.
I still have the original left hand lugs on my car and I would purchase a complete set of 10 RH and 10 LH but it looks like that won't happen because of the lack of demand for the LH lugnuts. Count me as one that would not like to have a RH lugnut marked as a LH.
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) and you'll sell a ton of them
