I was going to say the same thing. Personally I'm sticking with the 5x115 bolt pattern.

 

It wont do any damage. There are tons of people who use the 5x114.3 bolt pattern including me. I even use longer wheel studs and spacers. No problems at all. Anyone who has ever actually used this bolt pattern will see how well the wheels fit on the hubs.

 

I thought I would draw up these pictures to show everyone what the differences between the 5x115 and 5x114.3 bolt patterns are.

These are drawn to scale.

In the pictures I drew both bolt patterns drawn on top of each other. In the first picture it doesn't look like there is a difference between the two patterns.

But take a look at the close up picture. The solid lines indicate your stock bolt pattern (5x115) The dashed lines represent the 5x114.3 bolt pattern. As you can see there is a slight difference in the hole locations. The holes on your wheels usually have pretty good clearance around the lugs. Conical shaped lug nuts help to center the lug bolt in the center of the hole on the wheel when they are tightened. The problem with using 5x114.3 on a 5x115 lug spacing, is the lug nuts won't be able to exactly center the lugs in the holes of the wheel. HOWEVER this is only a slight error, less than 1MM, but stack up of tolerances could occur and you could be off by a little more.

It is easy to see how little of a difference there is and how people are able to use both bolt patterns together. But the people who discourage it have a valid reason as there is extra stress applied to the lugs and nut though probably not much.






Hope this helped some people

 

Ive run 114.3 & it bolted up nicely there is very minimal difference in size