[Tahoe968]

Does such a thing exist? I'm wanting them for some 993 Cup rims I picked up recently that I'm having powder coated black. I looked around, and the only black one's I find are aluminum. I thought about painting or powder coating the lugs but it seems they would get nicked and have the color come off after a few cycles with a tire iron. Thoughts?

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[MCL968]

How about Parkerizing? Can you get nuts that are not chromed?

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[Tahoe968]

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How about Parkerizing? [/quote]



Interesting, let me look into that...

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[MCL968]

Pretty easy to do at home with a parkerizing kit, but I have always sent parts out to get done. In my experience, the darkness of the finish depends on the amount of carbon in the steel.

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[bombfactory]

My aluminum lug nuts were probably original to the car and were making me nervous. I found a set of black steel lug nuts on eBay a couple years ago. No problems. Take a look, there's probably some available there.

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[BeBe]

Paragon has black steel lug nuts (at least they show them on their website).

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[Tahoe968]

[quote name='BeBe' timestamp='1406753839' post='160685']

Paragon has black steel lug nuts (at least they show them on their website).

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Thanks to Bebe, I ordered a set of the black(ish) steel lug nuts. I'm impressed that a set of 20 - with 2 day shipping - was only $41.65! That's the cheapest I could find them, in any color, and if they look as black as the picture, they should work just fine!

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[flash]

the ones i saw at paragon are through hole. you can see the stud. fugly.

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[Tahoe968]

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the ones i saw at paragon are through hole. you can see the stud. fugly.

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I thought that's what the Track techs wanted, in order to be sure your wheels are on securely?

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[Tahoe968]

[quote name='flash' timestamp='1406781671' post='160707']

the ones i saw at paragon are through hole. you can see the stud. fugly.

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I picked these up for street use. <img src="/forum/images/smilies/968/clap.gif" class="smilie" alt="" />

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[williamoss]

I seem to remember with my1979 924 it came with aluminum lug nuts for the alloy wheels, but a separate set of steel nuts for the spare.

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[ds968]

[quote name='flash' timestamp='1406781671' post='160707']the ones i saw at paragon are through hole. you can see the stud. fugly.[/quote]



Different strokes ... Although admittedly , at first when I realized that's what comes with the longer studs on the spacers I also thought they might look weird, but right after putting them on the car I immediately thought and still do that the through-hole ones look 1000% better than the capped lug nuts. Mine are not black, they're grey-ish, same as the steel studs , so they sort of blend in with the rest of the wheel .. I'm also getting those for the tip now that I'm putting spacers on that car as well .

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[BeBe]

Mine are so deeply recessed in the rim that I did not remember if they were black or chrome. They are black, but you can't really notice through-hole or not unless you use a flashlight.

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