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Originally Posted by mav1178
But that also brings up something even more relevant: lug nuts have no QC or testing standard like wheels.
You can advertise what tonnage press you used to forge metal with. You can advertise what grade metal you use. But there's no magical testing standard of lug nuts.
Brand is no assurance of quality... see below
My authentic, straight-from-the-source Kics R40 Iconix lug nuts are rusting at the ends. I should take a picture later... but for me, they work perfectly fine.
-alex
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Mine are not yet rusting(I have R40s as well) but I've had cheap auto parts store lugs on other cars that flaked after taking them off once. They may be functional but will look bad. And while there may be no QC standard across all lugs, I expect the expensive babe brand ones to be held to a higher tolerance, have higher quality coating, be a better material, and have their various tolerances and whatnot checked more often and more completely than cheap lugs. I don't have a problem with reps so long as they don't pretend to be real. Rotas look like Volks but they don't have a Volk sticker. I've had straight knockoff parts before(logo and everything) and they failed pretty quickly. I'm confident the"real"ones wouldn't have. While lugs may not fly off the car because they are low quality does not make them equally good. Besides he paid for the"real"thing. It doesn't matter how well these will work