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Old 23-03-2012
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Originally Posted by Hog View Post
Thanks Paul.

The plastic hex's are 5mm thick front, and 7mm thick rear, but I noticed last night once the wheel nuts are on (using narrow nuts on the front) that there's a fair amount of thread left on the front and not much on the rear.

I've found some aftermarket ones off fleabay which are 6mm thick which should fit so I'm going to give those a try. The only others I'd located - 2 separate sets (1 @5mm and 1 @ 7mm) had an internal diameter of 5mm, and the AE axles are approx 4.7mm, so the hex's wouldn't clamp tight.
If looking for hexes on imperial axles, look for TC3/NTC3 and XXX-S hexes. I'm guessing that touring cars standardised on 12mm wheels after those cars came into production.
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