[TR] Panasports, Redlines and Lug Nuts?

[Barry Schwartz]

The Panasports that I have use the same lug nuts as the steel wheels, that
is the conical type.  So I wouldn't worry about the lug nuts - If you have
alloy wheels other than Panasports that use the shank to center the wheel
and not the conical type, then you might want to think about taking a spare
set if you have a steel wheel as a spare.  With the reliability of todays
radials, I don't eve take a spare with me, and in almost 30 years I have
only had one incident involving a flat and even then it was slow enough to
allow me to make it to safely to my destination.


****************original message****************
>I was putting air in the spare tonight in preparation to leave for the  
>TRials tomorrow morning and I got to wondering & worrying.  Suppose  
>you had a massive blowout of a tire on one of your Panasports or other  
>new allow wheels and had to put an old steel wheel in it's place for a  
>while.  Would the lug nuts for the Panasports secure the steel wheel  
>securely to the hub?


Barry Schwartz
La Mesa, CA (San Diego)