Aftermarket 2022 Toyota Tundra lug nuts can add a personalized style to your vehicle. Usually, they are in a mass variety of colors and styles. You can invest in a new Tundra M14x1.5 lug nut kit for entirely aesthetic purposes. Equipping your Tundra TRD with the correct lug nuts is very important to ensure the safe and reliable installation of the aftermarket wheels. If you’ve purchased a set of aftermarket rims, you’ll possibly need to replace your stock lug nuts to match the new wheel insert holes. Aftermarket 2022 Tundra lug nuts come in three standard types: cone seat, ball seat, and flat seat. They are made to match specific mounting holes and fit different seat types of rims. Some Tundra TRD locking lug nuts come with spline grooves on the head and require a special key. The requirement of a unique tool reduces the risk of stripping the lug nuts and preventing the wheel from theft. They add security for your wheels.
What 2022 Toyota Tundra Lug Nuts Do I Need?
Depending on the wheels and vehicle hub, aftermarket Tundra lug nuts vary in the thread, seat type, or others. Thread engagement refers to how much contact your lug nut has, or how many complete turns before it is tight. For your safety, proper thread engagement must be met. Before shopping for a new Toyota Tundra lug nut kit, check out the seat type first:
- The cone seat has a beveled 60 degree angled surface and it is the most popular type for aftermarket wheels.
- The ball seat is an inverted bowl-shaped seat.
- A flat seat (also called mag seat) is a completely flat surface used with a separate gasket.
Typically, you need to keep the thread length and pitch the same as the length and pitch of the stock 2022 Tundra lug nuts. Otherwise, the nuts may not be able to properly secure the wheel. You feel hard to thread an M12x1.5 nut into an M14x1.5 stud. You can find the right size in your vehicle’s manual. It’s essential to be aware of the head shape. Most Toyota cars’ lug nuts have a hex shape that is designed for fitting a range of regular sockets. But some lug nuts’ head diameter is commonly designed for specific aftermarket wheels and will require an adapter for installation/removal. Improper installation of nuts leads to vibration, broken wheel combination, or even your wheel falling off your vehicle!
Why You Should Use Quality M14x1.5 Tundra Lug Nuts?
When figuring out the thread and seat type of your Tundra lug nuts, then you get to the material selection which is one of the important things to ensure safety. BONOSS offers high-quality forged Toyota Tundra lug nuts that are available in a variety of colors to suit your style preferences. Although many stores claim that they are selling Aluminum lug nuts, but they are not made by the forged process. In fact, they are cheap casting lugs. Forging provides higher performance 2022 Tundra lug nuts than casting. It further enhances the hardness and toughness. With the same material and cost, the strength and safety of forged lug nuts are far higher than casting ones. BONOSS provides forged Titanium lug nuts (Tensile Strength≥1,110Mpa), and the forged 7075-T6 Aluminum lug nuts (Tensile Strength≥572Mpa), they are fully SGS TUV ISO standard test reports certificated. And the Tensile Strength of the cheap alternatives is approximately 125Mpa below. When facing bump and impact loads, higher tensile strength can bear greater forces without breaking.
