LR4 wheel studs?

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BeemerNut

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Cool, that explains your adventure.
These rims must still maintain hub centric alignment with transfered stresses to the hubs vs the studs. These new rims secured by flat and washer vs cone nuts?
If by flat contact mounted lugs, "what if" you had lug nuts with a longer body from the flat of the washer to the end of the lug for a longer threaded lug regaining the safe amount of threaded on turns as factory?
Sounds like the rims at the lug mounting location is thicker than the factory rims correct?
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Yeah, the BMW style 130 wheels are hub centric to Land Rovers (at least the LR4). The wheel mounting plate is definitely thicker on the new wheels and thus requiring longer wheel studs.

I agree that the 60* cone style nuts aren't as secure as the OEM cone/washer combo lugs, but other makes and models are running them and I don't really see it as an issue. For instance Toyota Tundras have 5x150 lug patterns on 60* conical acorn nuts.
 

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What you need here my friend is not longer studs costing too much money and labor but "just
longer bodied lug nuts", from the base of washer of the parallel shank area lengthened the amount of the increased thickness of your new rim centers. BTW, how much thicker material we talking about here vs LR's thickness at the lug nut area?
With maintaining hub centric of the rim there is no worries as your not relying on the parallel shanks of the lugs to maintain concentric the rim to hub. This clearance gap even dealing with
high dollar wheel spacers with hub centric sections not contacting the rim maintaining concentric alignment but only on the lug nut's parallel shanks cause the wheels (rim) to be 1.973 oz out of balance. Rotate wheel 1/2 turn, loosen lugs then the wheel (rim) will fall down twice the clearance again 1.973 oz out of balance 180 degree rotation. A cure I came up for these high quality NOT concentric wheel spacers I purchased being another sucker. They were not the flat only wheel spacers but an upgrade I was told.
This another topic with photos taken about my adventure adding 30 mm wheel spacers to improve my cornering ability at speed. Sorry, back to your problem.
Do your lug nuts come with stainless caps from LR?
Bouncing around ideas in my empty head and have one i'd adventure in if I was in your position. This by a PM to you later tonight, out on an important mission I can't delay so Wednesday morning the latest. Carl.....~~=o&o>......
 

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Have you checked into Summit's offerings, they have several brands of studs as well a chart with measurements of studs to narrow down your search.
https://www.summitracing.com/search...MI-JPvn_HR4gIVBr3sCh2SgQ5BEAAYBCAAEgJtvvD_BwE
Without knowing your old stud's exact OD measurements going the full length plus the old stud length with the needed new length it's a guessing game.
Also they have studs as "knurling", vs "splined" we always used then add "serrated" to the mix. I can deal with the last two, which can be pressed in but a knurled item has a completely different finish pattern like on a center punch body which would destroy any hole it were press forced into. .....~~=o&o>.....
 

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