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I have a set of ARC Alurad 5-poke wheels (very similar to Mercedes Pentas), but they are stashed away so I can't get to them...

Can anyone advise on which shape wheel nuts/studs I will need? Ball or straight chamfer seated ones?

These are original VW fitment wheels, not drilled Mercedes ones, so I am assuming I don't need the reduced sized nuts? can anyone confirm?

Any help, much appreciated.
Thanks
Mark

volks_womble wrote:I have a set of ARC Alurad 5-poke wheels .......................
These are original VW fitment wheels,

If I'm not mistaken most if not all standard VW fitment alloys were 60 degree taper bolts/nuts and most if not all their steels were radius.
Think in either case you will probably need longer bolts up front and longer studs on the rear. TBH I wouldn't order anything up without physically checking first.

I should say, these were dealer fit, not factory fit...

On investigation, they seem to need the radiused fitment rather than the taper fitment. Time to acquire some longer raduised bolts then I guess.

Cheers
Mark