Click noise after putting new wheels on?

alexthepooky

Hey! Thanks for your response. They are not stock lug nuts. Stock wheels used to have a wheel lock lug nut set. When I bought the car the owner lost the key. So I got all the old lugs off and had to use a lug gripper tool to get the wheel locks off. Then my friend gave me open ended tapered seat lug set to use instead. Those are what I have on the car now with the new wheels. But you bring up a good point! I have no idea if the lugs I have are 45 or 60 degree seat. Do you reccomend I get a new set of lugs? I’ll try to find out which degree seating I need for these SSR GTV02 wheels. Also I installed extended studs because when I got the wheels I noticed that there wasn’t too much thread on the studs because of the offset difference. I drove it on stock studs like 100 feet, and noticed that the lugs were real easy to take off. After installing extended studs the lugs hold very tight and did not loosen after a quick drive around town. Studs made no difference in noise, I originally thought the short amount of thread on stock studs were the issue. I believe the nismo have longer studs than base model (I have a base model). I installed the extended Z1 studs.

k67p67

The lug nuts you are using are almost surely 60 degree taper which is what they should be. Not sure if there is a difference in stud length between base models and sport/Nismo models. Open ended lug nuts means they aren't bottoming out on the extended studs.

The clicking noise doesn't seem to be related to the change of wheels. Is the clicking loud or soft? Fast or slow? One time or repeated?

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alexthepooky

Clicking can be heard with windows down. If windows are up I wont hear it. By no means does it sound like a banging or clashing noise. Its sounds like running over some brittle leaves. The clicking doesn't really sound rotational with the wheel. Click clickclick click until I go above 2k rpm in 1st then it stops. Keep in mind, after I heard the click, I did put the stock wheels back on, and the clicking stopped. Put the SSRs back on, and clicking started again.

Heres a video of the clicking noise: https://vimeo.com/640185670
In the video I did run over two big ol' leaves (abunch in my complex) so dont confuse those noises with the actual clicking I'm referring to in the vid lol. P.S. In the car is sounds like it comes from the front, standing outside the car you can hear it from the rear too.

k67p67

Weird..
Are you using hubcentric rings?

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alexthepooky

I actually do not since I just got the wheels. But I do understand I need them and just ordered them. I did make sure to tighten lugs evenly in a star pattern making sure the wheel is flat on the hub. I've heard of not having rings causing some vibration issues at higher speeds (btw no vibration issues here), but personally never heard of not having them causing a clicking noise. Like I said, not an expert tho lol. Do you believe that it could cause the noise? Ever heard of that before on here? Regardless once I do get them I will update if it fixes the noise. Hope it's that easy of a fix lol!

k67p67

Hmmm, a puzzling puzzler...

The hubcentric rings, or lack thereof, aren't causing the clicking noise. I was trying to picture what could be moving to cause the noise. It sounds like lightweight sheet metal like a heat shield or brake dust shield. Do you have tpms sensors on the SSR wheels? If so, how are they mounted? I have my sensors banded on the barrels which can result in noise if they become loose.

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alexthepooky

No TPMS sensors. I’ve also read about a shield causing some type of noise in other threads. But unless I’m smoothbrained I genuinely don’t see anything touching or rubbing, everything looks to me like it has clearance. The strangest part about this whole thing is that the noise completely disappears after 10mph. Not like the wind is louder than the click, like it actually just stops clicking once I go fast enough. A puzzler indeed.