Does someone know if those fake plastic wheel fasteners are available as a replacement part for the "By Diesel" wheels. ??

This came up about 2 years ago I think can't quite remember what the outcome was . Epoxy?

John202020 said:

This came up about 2 years ago I think can't quite remember what the outcome was . Epoxy?

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I vaguely remember this and I think the outcome was no they are part of the wheel and not available.

Best bet would be to look at other plastic fasteners that are the same dimensions and paint them the right colour silver or glue the broken ones back in

Epoxy glue it... or drill out the plastic remnants of the old rivet and fit a new allen head bolt. They're M4 (4mm) from memory.

The problem with these bolts is there's hundreds of them on a wheel so even though a stainless steel allen bolt would look quite saucy, metal won't do, as it'd upset the wheel weight and balance.

I did look at Titanium bolts too... but the tiny disadvantage there is that they're $2.50 each and I wanted to do all the rivets on all the wheels (22 rivets per wheel) on my old Alfa 155.


You'll have to go plastic... they would need to be glued in (once you've drilled the broken stub out) and they would need re-painting to match.


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Ralf S.

They are plastic and glued in. They usually break off when someone tries to take an allen key to them to undo one. I couldn't find them as a part so the wheel refurber glued it back in.