Information On Wheel Bolts
WARNING: This page is about a different car, the 2021 Porsche Macan, 2020 Porsche Macan, and 2019 Porsche Macan. However, it is still accessible from the selected car via links, so may be relevant.
- Use a suitable commercially available tool (a/f 19 mm). No force or impact tools allowed (for example, impact drivers).
- Wheel bolts must never be reworked.
- Replace damaged wheel bolts.
- Examples of damage: Damage to thread and spherical cap, seizure of screw head and spherical cap ring, binding of wheel screws.
- It must be possible to turn the spherical cap ring on the bolt shank and move it in axial direction.
- Do not grease the wheel bolts and security wheel bolts.
Wheel bolt
| 1 | Cap ring (permanently connected) |
| 2 | Spherical cap bearing surface facing the rim → do not grease |
| 3 | Thread → do not grease |
Arrows Contact surfaces between bolt head and spherical cap ring → do not grease