I am trying to get new lugs...would they be 12 x 1.25 or 12 x 1.5 ? Anyone know?

 

most every honda uses 12x1.5 also the OE wheels use a ball seat as where most all other wheels use a 60° seat- you will need to know which ones you are looking for. 12x1.25 is subaru.

Yea I need to get a life I know...

 

Great, I appreciate the info, now I know what to get when putting on the new wheels.

 

What kind are you looking? I've been looking at Ray's or Kyokugen, been trying to find opinions online.

 

I've read a lot of bad things about Kyokugen. It's said that they strip really easy, creating problems to get the wheels off when needed. Best price I saw on Ray's were 120.00 for the whole set w/ locks. I think it was at www.optauto.com , I got a set of spoon sports for 130.00 at www.jhpusa.com in gunmetal. No one else has that color, so I thought I'd be different. Rays has black, blue, and I think red. ebay has them too (rays), but the guy selling them does not have the 12x1.5 and said it would be at least 5 weeks to get them.

 

thanks! i might actually jack your gunmetal style, have been consideing the black Kyokugen (only saw red and blue ray's didn't know they did black) since I'm planning on gunmetal rims.

 

I might have justed dorked the dog though. I just went back and checked the site and the lugs are tapered. I don't know if that will work or not. I e-mailed them and have to wait till the AM to see if that will fly, if not, then the black rays will work.
Does it matter if they're tapered or not?

 

Haha cool. What color TSX do you have? I have a satin silver TSX and I got some Gunmetal rims. I'm waiting for it to get a little warmer and for more snow to melt, then I'll put them on and post some pics. I put them up to the car today and they look sick, haha I can't wait until It gets warmer.

l8ers
Wess

 

PWP, double crossing my fingers that it'll look good. Snap some pics w/ the wheels on and send them to me, I'll throw them up in my wheel gallery.

 

The description at jhpusa sounds kind of ominious, looks like tapered lugs are required for some wheels, which may or may not mean they wont work on "normal" wheels.

Also, it doesn't look like those Spoons come with a locking nut?

 

No locking nut with the spoons, but they look the same as the stock ones, only longer. I have pics if you have an e-mail address you want me to send them to. The gunmetal color looks badass on the silver wheel. Not as dark a gunmetal as my rims on my civic though. Now all I need is those damn coilovers and I can get it all done. Don't want to drive around with a nice set of 18's on stock ride height, will look gay to me.

 

send them to dbussert@vt.edu and i'll put them up

 

pics sent to you! Thanks!

 

 

Xizor--the lugs in gun metal will NOT work on aftermarket wheels. Only the gun metal ones, every other color by spoon will work. I am returning them for the Rays ones in black. Guess it's back to the drawing board for the gun metal....and it looked so sweet too!
Went today to have them double checked with another tapered set. The gun metal spoon ones were designed for a specific wheel by spoon and Honda factory wheels.
Thought I'd let you know since it crossed your mind about the gun metal color!

 

ah man, too bad. can't wait for some pics of your black rays, will definately help me decide which color to get.

 

here's a pic of mcgard spline locks on gunmetal



and ray's

 

Which nuts are those?

 

hehe, like the captions say, the first ones are McGard's, the 2nd are Ray's Lug nuts

 

Just returned the spoon ones...got the rays in black to replace em....looks good.