Measuring Bolt Patterns

Posted by 141drew Aug 14, 2009 at 3:20 PM and filed under Reviews & Features

Updated on May 28, 2021 at 11:37 AM

I had a reader send me this and I dug it… I’ve got one of those little red discs that you put up against the wheel studs to measure bolt patterns, but it’s limited and typically only covers standard American sizes. What do you do if you are into all kinds of cars both foreign and domestic? Easy. Get your *** on over to some place called “Commercial Forms” and get yourself a set of these.

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nate379

Banned

Aug 14, 2009

I just use a caliper though a tape measure would even work.

http://www.mrt-wheels.com/boltpattern.html

Brad54

Well-known member

Aug 15, 2009

Hey Ryan,
Here's an even better wheel gauge. Fits in your pocket, fits all wheels, sturdy (extruded aluminum), inexpensive... one for the junkyard box, one for the tool box, and one for the glove box.

http://wheeltool.com/wlg.html

Don't go to the swap meet without it!

-Brad

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35mastr

Well-known member

Aug 15, 2009

I also use the red disc. But they also have a yellow one for the metric sizes.

kbs2244

Well-known member

Aug 15, 2009

Man, that is way over kill to me.
I only need to find one or two sizes at any one time.

I just make an outline of what I need, with some critical measurements and make model etc written down, on a piece of an old breakfast food box.

It is cheap, light, and easy to have in the trunk.
(Sometimes I make 2. One for my car and one for hers)

majbill

New member

Aug 21, 2009

I'm of the same opinion as kbs2244. Another simple way of doing this is take a piece of cardboard and a marker (preferrably non-permanent) mark the stud ends and press the cardboard up against them....low and behold you have a print of the stud pattern to take with you and match up with rims.

Okay, guess that was too simple so I will go back to my still and continue sipping here in Tennessee.

Bill

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