Titanium Lug Nuts... Worth their weight in gold?

[Rahkmalla]

As long as you know ultimately the upgrade is useless, fulfill your fantasies. Half a pound of savings 2 inches from the axis works out .077 ft/lbs of savings when measuring force to rotate.

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[RacerAV]

As long as you know ultimately the upgrade is useless, fulfill your fantasies. Half a pound of savings 2 inches from the axis works out .077 ft/lbs of savings when measuring force to rotate.

I’m just going to trust your math on this… but i like it! ??

 

[RacerAV]

Question for all: if the price was the same on quality steel lug nuts or Ti lug nuts, what would you choose and why?

what if it was 10% more for Ti? Still same answer? What’s your price cut off?

 

[mtudb24]

You do you. Your jeep your money. Spend it how you see fit.

My Q-tech black lugs will be 3 years in October and I'm in Michigan in the salt and shit. I don't think they look bad at all.
We just had a week of rain up here, so I do need to go wash the truck

 

[snowbear]

Yeah, for my definition of "quarter mile" - he'd get 10 demerits for using 'quarter mile' and 'Jeep' in the same thought.

I was a quarter mile down the trail in my Jeep, when I saw the X3 with it's suspension parts all over the ground..

 

[bd100]

Some day people will be stealing lug nuts and leaving the wheels...

 

[LincolnFStrn]

Just take the floor mats out.

 

[IslandFalconer]

Hey, they’re your ”nuts” and what you do with them is your choice. But 5 Benjamin’s is too rich for my wallet. they look good that’s for sure

 

[CJ5w4wdSmokyOnMyTail]

Yeah, for my definition of "quarter mile" - he'd get 10 demerits for using 'quarter mile' and 'Jeep' in the same thought.

Yeah, unless the sentence is about trying to make it to the next gas station!

 

[ShadowsPapa]

Yeah, unless the sentence is about trying to make it to the next gas station!

Then that quarter mile may as well be 20 miles.

 

[WoolyKris]

Personally I would avoid swapping to a different alloy. Ti has different qualities from steel besides weight savings stick to OEM. There is nothing worse than a snapped or stuck lug nut on a side of the road /trail when you are trying to change a tire…

 

[RacerAV]

Personally I would avoid swapping to a different alloy. Ti has different qualities from steel besides weight savings stick to OEM. There is nothing worse than a snapped or stuck lug nut on a side of the road /trail when you are trying to change a tire…

That's a good point. I haven't heard of any stuck Ti lugs on steel studs. Something worthy of a little research though!

 

[lobelsteve]

As long as you know ultimately the upgrade is useless, fulfill your fantasies. Half a pound of savings 2 inches from the axis works out .077 ft/lbs of savings when measuring force to rotate.

What if you take a nail clipper to the chicken strips on the sidewall? And leave off the valve stem caps?

 

[bleda2002]

Question for all: if the price was the same on quality steel lug nuts or Ti lug nuts, what would you choose and why?

what if it was 10% more for Ti? Still same answer? What’s your price cut off?

For a jeep I'd do 10% for the burnt ti look, but no way am I even paying 40% markup vs steel, much less the 400% markup they currently are. My black west coast custom splined nuts look fine a year+ on and that's with me taking them off and on quite a bit with an impact.

 

[Rahkmalla]

What if you take a nail clipper to the chicken strips on the sidewall? And leave off the valve stem caps?

Thought chicken strips were the build up of unused tire edge on a motorcycle that a person who doesn't put a knee down gets as their tire wears down? You seem to be implying they are the little prickly but of rubber left over from the injection moulding.

But i like where your head is going with the valve stem caps. In fact lets take the valve stems off altogether. And those super annoying "balancing" weights.

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