Wobble Bolts

[mat777]

I had never heard of these before someone mentioned them to me this morning, but they are apparently the "in" thing for fitting different wheels to cars with a very-similar-but-not-quite-the-same wheelbolt pattern. They look like this:



From an engineering/structural perspective the idea horrifys me, but what does the PH collective make of them?

[mat777]

doogz said:

mat777 said:

From an engineering/structural perspective the idea horrifys me, but what does the PH collective make of them?

Actually, what's your take on it. Where do you think they'll fail/cause issues?

Because you are putting a huge amount of asymmetric force on the head of the bolt every time you go round a corner and the wheel is trying to come off the hub - a good way to potentially bend the bolt or even pull the head off by inducing a stress crack that gets larger over time