One local garage uses impact wretches to remove and put on lug nuts. I found out the hard way they cross threaded a few of the lug nuts one time when switching to snow tires one fall. I couldn't remove a couple of the tires even using a 2 foot pipe for extra leverage. Started bringing my car to a different shop afterwards. At home I always use a torque wrench after home threading the nuts on. DYI tip: My dad put 2 foot pipe in the trunk of my first car. Said it has a lot of uses, especially for adding extra leverage for changing a flat tire with stubborn lug nuts. History has proved him correct many times over.
What the mechanics have done to me is break the capping that goes over the lug nut. I hate that they make two piece lug nuts. When they break off the capping this now changes the size of the lug nut and the lug wrench that comes with the car will now be to big for the lug nut. So, if I were to get a flat my lug nut would not be able to remove the lugs with the broken capping. I just got tires at Pep Boys and they broke the capping off of 4 of my lug nuts. So, now I have ordered 20 new lugs nuts that are one piece, they have no capping. This is the second vehicle that I've had to replace the two piece lug nut with 20 new one piece lug nuts. Have you seen the two piece lug nuts I'm talking about?
Finally someone points this out. Every time I have tires put on my car, I drive home, loosen all of the lug nuts and torque them properly. However, you missed one important point and I see this all of the time and talk about it frequently on my channel. The wheel should be IN THE AIR when the lug nuts are tightened. The weight of the car and tire flex apply uneven pressure to the wheel when it is on the ground. Better to have someone step on the brakes (or e-brake) when the car is up and you torque them down.
Usually if I'm using a torque wrench for the final tightening I only lower the car enough for the wheels to be held still by the ground, without the weight of the car on them.
I started doing my own maintenance. I noticed the lug nuts were extremely hard to remove and my tires were last rotated by the shop. this time i rotated my own tires and used a torque wrench to set them to 90ft lbs spec. i had to remove one just now and had me double checking and researching if I tightened them too lightly... because they were way easier to remove when only tightened to the 90 ft lb spec, I am pretty sure my shop just blasted them with the impact wrench before. Also watched some youtube videos seeing the effort people put in with their torque wrenches tightening down and i am convinced my torque wrench is reasonably calibrated.
I sometimes use a torque wrench to remove lug nuts to see how much they are OVER torqued. I helped a young man from Canada switch over from snow tires. His Corolla had a really low torque spec. like 83 ft. lbs. They were close to 250 foot pounds, and yes, hard to remove. This can warp your brake rotors from the excessive pressure. What's worse was the studs were coated with grease. He said that corrosion in Canada would eat up the threads without grease, and that his dad was an engineer. Dear old dad was greasing and over-torquing all of their cars, for Safety.
I argued with a truck tire shop about not using a one inch gun to put my lug nuts on and the guy said well they have to be 400 ft lbs. so I told him ok then make them that and not another pound over. My trouble was that I couldn’t get them off at home when I was doing maintenance on my trucks. And I had a one inch gun. But I think theirs had 1300 lbs of torque. I’ve found many big truck lug nuts and the stud at intersections, for some reason they will brake there when the truck is turning. I would jump out and pick them up if the light was red. They are right and left threats so they were worth picking up for spares.
If you don't know what you are doing, you can still over tighten or under torque with torque sticks. It is depends on how long you hold the trigger and power setting of a pneumatic or electric guns.
Idk if they over tightened or under but 3 of my lug nuts fell off over the last 2 months and my car is absolutely shaking now lol. Reached out to them to fix it and they will. No mention of cost but we will see if they try to charge me.
I just about stroked out trying to get those things off a flat that was thankfully at my house. I ended up having to call AAA and felt like an idiot. But the AAA guys said it happens all the time now. People doing maintenance just hurry and put the lugs on way too tight
Thank you. You can no longer get lug nuts off with the factory wrench in an emergency because these lazy asses impact drill them on to where the Incredible Hulk couldn’t get them off.
One local garage uses impact wretches to remove and put on lug nuts. I found out the hard way they cross threaded a few of the lug nuts one time when switching to snow tires one fall. I couldn't remove a couple of the tires even using a 2 foot pipe for extra leverage. Started bringing my car to a different shop afterwards. At home I always use a torque wrench after home threading the nuts on.
DYI tip: My dad put 2 foot pipe in the trunk of my first car. Said it has a lot of uses, especially for adding extra leverage for changing a flat tire with stubborn lug nuts. History has proved him correct many times over.
What the mechanics have done to me is break the capping that goes over the lug nut. I hate that they make two piece lug nuts. When they break off the capping this now changes the size of the lug nut and the lug wrench that comes with the car will now be to big for the lug nut. So, if I were to get a flat my lug nut would not be able to remove the lugs with the broken capping. I just got tires at Pep Boys and they broke the capping off of 4 of my lug nuts. So, now I have ordered 20 new lugs nuts that are one piece, they have no capping. This is the second vehicle that I've had to replace the two piece lug nut with 20 new one piece lug nuts. Have you seen the two piece lug nuts I'm talking about?
Finally someone points this out. Every time I have tires put on my car, I drive home, loosen all of the lug nuts and torque them properly. However, you missed one important point and I see this all of the time and talk about it frequently on my channel. The wheel should be IN THE AIR when the lug nuts are tightened. The weight of the car and tire flex apply uneven pressure to the wheel when it is on the ground. Better to have someone step on the brakes (or e-brake) when the car is up and you torque them down.
Usually if I'm using a torque wrench for the final tightening I only lower the car enough for the wheels to be held still by the ground, without the weight of the car on them.
I started doing my own maintenance. I noticed the lug nuts were extremely hard to remove and my tires were last rotated by the shop. this time i rotated my own tires and used a torque wrench to set them to 90ft lbs spec. i had to remove one just now and had me double checking and researching if I tightened them too lightly... because they were way easier to remove when only tightened to the 90 ft lb spec, I am pretty sure my shop just blasted them with the impact wrench before. Also watched some youtube videos seeing the effort people put in with their torque wrenches tightening down and i am convinced my torque wrench is reasonably calibrated.
You could also address the improper use of anti-seize on lug nuts.
I sometimes use a torque wrench to remove lug nuts to see how much they are OVER torqued. I helped a young man from Canada switch over from snow tires. His Corolla had a really low torque spec. like 83 ft. lbs. They were close to 250 foot pounds, and yes, hard to remove. This can warp your brake rotors from the excessive pressure. What's worse was the studs were coated with grease. He said that corrosion in Canada would eat up the threads without grease, and that his dad was an engineer. Dear old dad was greasing and over-torquing all of their cars, for Safety.
You are actually 100 correct! Most people just don’t do a decent job at all torquing lug nuts
I argued with a truck tire shop about not using a one inch gun to put my lug nuts on and the guy said well they have to be 400 ft lbs. so I told him ok then make them that and not another pound over. My trouble was that I couldn’t get them off at home when I was doing maintenance on my trucks. And I had a one inch gun. But I think theirs had 1300 lbs of torque. I’ve found many big truck lug nuts and the stud at intersections, for some reason they will brake there when the truck is turning. I would jump out and pick them up if the light was red. They are right and left threats so they were worth picking up for spares.
If you don't know what you are doing, you can still over tighten or under torque with torque sticks. It is depends on how long you hold the trigger and power setting of a pneumatic or electric guns.
Idk if they over tightened or under but 3 of my lug nuts fell off over the last 2 months and my car is absolutely shaking now lol.
Reached out to them to fix it and they will. No mention of cost but we will see if they try to charge me.
2 of the 3 studs appear to have sheared off
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That means they over torqued the wheels.
They had them at 370 to 400 lb feet on my Corolla. They used the same impact they were using on a Semi rim.
Any special torque wrench design specifically for wheel torque?
No, any normal torque wrench that goes up to 150 ft lbs. is fine.
Thanks
would you say it's better to err on the side of being under torqued or over torqued?
Don't be either, get a torque wrench and the problem is solved.
Over torqued will bevell your rims stud housing another word for this is bent out of shape from flat to a funnel like shape
If they are over tightened most women can’t get them off if they had to. Men will struggle with them to.
I just about stroked out trying to get those things off a flat that was thankfully at my house. I ended up having to call AAA and felt like an idiot. But the AAA guys said it happens all the time now. People doing maintenance just hurry and put the lugs on way too tight
Thank you. You can no longer get lug nuts off with the factory wrench in an emergency because these lazy asses impact drill them on to where the Incredible Hulk couldn’t get them off.
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