Knowing your Ford Explorer’s bolt pattern is one facet of being an educated car owner. Ensuring your bolt pattern is correct makes your SUV safe to drive—and what’s more important than safety?

If you’re curious about your Ford Explorer’s bolt pattern, you’ve come to the right place.

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2016 Ford Explorer bolt pattern

The bolt pattern for a 2016 Ford Explorer is 5x4.5. What does that mean exactly? Essentially, every bolt pattern is expressed as:

# of bolts/lugs x circle’s diameter they create

A 5x4.5 bolt pattern means your SUV has five bolts, or lugs, surrounding a circle with a diameter of 4.5 inches. Simple enough, right? Hold your horses!

If you’re looking to swap out your wheels, you’ll need to know a few more measurements—wheel and stud size, offset, center bore, and wheel tightening torque.

Factory wheel size: 18” 20” (depending on trim level)

Stud size: M14 x 1.5

Offset: 30 to 48 mm

Center bore: 63.4 mm

Wheel tightening torque: 204 Nm

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How to measure your Ford Explorer’s bolt pattern

If you want to measure your Ford Explorer’s bolt pattern yourself, you can do that, too!

All you’ll need is a measuring tape—but if you don’t have one, even a simple ruler will work. Next, pick any of your Explorer’s five bolt holes and measure from the outer edge of the bolt hole to the center of the bolt opposite it. Five-bolt configurations can be tricky since the bolts aren’t directly across from each other, so just pick the nearest bolts and measure to the center.

Your ruler should tell you 4.5 inches, or 114.3 millimeters. This is the circle’s diameter. Pair that with the number of bolts your SUV has (six) and you’ve got your bolt pattern: 5x4.5.

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