A 2012 Chevrolet Silverado 2500 has a bolt pattern of 8x6.5, which means each wheel has eight bolts creating a circle with a diameter of 6.5 inches.

Knowing your vehicle’s bolt pattern is an important part of being an informed driver. The bolt pattern, also known as the lug pattern, measures the imaginary circle created by the bolt holes at the center of your vehicle’s wheel. The bolt pattern is essentially how the wheels are secured to your truck—so it's vital to know yours!

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2012 Chevrolet Silverado 2500 bolt pattern

The bolt pattern for a 2012 Chevrolet Silverado 2500 is 8x6.5. If this sounds like a confusing mathematical equation, don’t worry! We’ll unpack that. Every bolt or lug pattern is expressed as:

# of bolts x diameter of the circle they make up

An 8x6.5 bolt pattern means your Silverado 2500’s wheels have eight lugs each, forming a circle with a diameter of 6.5 inches—but hold your horses! The bolt pattern is not all you need to know. If you want to swap out the wheels on your Silverado 2500, you’ll also want to know its stud size, wheel offset, center bore measurement, and, torque specifications.

Factory wheel size: 17” to 18”

Stud size: M14 x 1.5

Offset: -44 to 44 mm

Center bore: 124.1 mm

Wheel tightening torque: 135 Nm

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How to measure your Chevy Silverado 2500 bolt pattern

Don’t just take our word for it. You can measure your Chevy Silverado 2500’s bolt pattern yourself. All you need is a measuring tape—or even a basic ruler will work!

Next, pick one of your truck’s eight bolts and measure from the center of the bolt’s hole to the center of the opposite bolt. You should get 6.5 inches or 165.1 mm. That, combined with the number of bolts your Chevy Silverado 2500 has (eight), is your bolt pattern—8 x 6.5.

Congratulations! You just manually measured your truck’s bolt pattern.

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