why? was re: Wheel stud kit

[Tessie McMillan]

You can even make your own "Audi tool" if you find the right bolt... I 
think one of my Alfa friends mentioned a bolt that came off an Alfa fit 
into the wheel hub of the Audi. Who knows what bolt this was. I'm not 
willing to take apart my Spider to find it... &:-)

But in any case, even this is a pain to those of us who have to swap 
wheels frequently. To get ready for the track, wheels come off so that we 
can bleed brakes. Wheels go back on. Drive to the track, take street 
wheels off and put track wheels on. End of day, take track wheels off and 
put street wheels on, and drive home. Next day, take wheels off to bleed 
brakes for the next track event. It adds up. I do an event each month, 
with a couple of them 2 weeks apart.

For someone like me, it is a chore to put the wheel on. I have to sit on 
the ground, balance the wheel on my feet, and use my feet to help me heft 
the wheel up to the hub while I'm eyeballing through the bolt holes... 
&:-) My friends call this "Tess's gorilla method". If anything doesn't 
line up just right, I have to get a centering tool out to rotate the hub 
to get the holes to line up. It can take me quite a while to change a 
wheel... and there's always four to do.

When I drove my (now ex-) boyfriend's 911 at the track a few years ago, oh 
my was that a LOT simpler to wheel swap. The 911 had wheel studs! 

Tess 
in Bellevue, WA USA