Prado 120

HI Darian, The usual suspects online but nothing

Steve, Sorry I thought I had a profile on this site. In Mandurah, south of Perth.

sorry for not doing my research mate - must try harder

http://www.coast4x4wreckers.com.au/


give this mob a go - they are on the E coast but they reckon they're one of the biggest in Oz and ship a lot of stuff about. You should get a 2nd spare for $60/70 and the shipping should be no more than $50 at most. Worth a call or email, anyway.

Gday Rob,
Hope you've been well!
I'd expect the Speedy take the steel wheel nuts while the factory alloys take the long shank nuts???
Cheers
Phil

I don't think so, the Speedy is an alloy that looks identical to the factory one, so probably takes the alloy style nuts. The steelies take the 'std' bevel shanked nuts.

I just did a search and found the following from Nick on Pradopoint:

"There are some minor differences between the Speedy Grande and genuine 120 Prado alloy. The centre caps are not exchangable. Well, that is not entirely true but I wouldn't guarentee that the genuine Toyota centre cap would still be sitting in the Speedy rim after a spin. I've tried a few of mine in the Speedy and they are loose. As Andrew indicate the wheel nuts are tapered. I recall looking into this and apparently they changed this after the first twelve months. Not sure why. The finish on mine is slightly different. it's like the Speedy has a plastic coating or varnish to add additional protection but I can't notice it now (have the spare roatetd as part of a six tyre rotation and they all look the same except for the (centre cap). From memory the balance weights are approximatley the same on the Grande as the genuine but there is no science behind that. Will vary from wheel to wheel. "

Interesting! Not quite sure from that if it means they are now tapered or where. Probably enough ambiguity to warrant investigation if you were intending to buy one of these, carrying an extra set of nuts to suit is not desired. I've never seen tapered nuts for alloys but I'm just basing that of my own cars (6) that have had alloys and ones of friends I've seen.

From what I've seen, the wheel nuts on the current Speedys are tapered (same as steel wheels and different to Toyota 120series alloys). This is what Nick was saying. My vague recollection some years ago was that Speedy got into trouble for copying the factory Toyota rim so had to come up with some differences - so changed the wheel nuts back to standard tapered.

Chasing alloys for GXL. Not sure on price as I haven't seen too many around and most of those I have seen include tyres which I already have but I thought under $200 would be reasonable.