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Car Forum / Honda Cars / September 2004Bummer - removed tire 1 wk after tire store put it on... snapped off the threads on one of the wheel studs
Bummer. Last week I had to get a tire replaced on my '93 Accord (alignment caused premature wear) and, today, as I loosened the lugnuts to do some other maintenance, one of them felt like it was binding. What was I to do? Honda uses domed lugnuts so I couldn't squirt any sort of lube there. I went ahead and loosened the nut. Got about 4 rounds off or so and then it sheared. Great! I bought the car used a year ago, and I don't know what the PO did with it, but since I've had it I have had the tires off numerous times, redid the brakes, etc... always tightened the nuts to specs per the manual. Well, all 4 of the threads on this wheel are lighter in appearance where the nut meets the threads. I wonder if someone was just in a hurry close to closing time and overtorqued it. They make a big deal about only tightening it to specs, use some dippy torque sticks on their airwrenches, but most of the time I just bring them a tire loose and have them replace it on the rim so that I don't have them messing with it... I dread what I will have to do since, when I was doing the brakes (front of car) a while ago, on the other side I HAD to take the rotor off to have it turned, I had a TERRIBLE time getting the bolts loose. This side didn't need to have the rotor turned, so I left it on. That means that I will have another terrible time getting this side loose. Anyway, what are the odds that (a) They will take any responsibility for the problem. (b) That is actually happened as a result of their actions? Maybe I can compromise and get them to loosen all of the bolts on the rotor using their airwrenches and then I can just tighten them close enough to spec so that I can drive it home and loosen them back myself. How difficult is it for a machine shop to press in another stud? As a general rule, should I go ahead and put in all 4 new? What do the shops charge? Thanks! KWW On 9/19/04 8:06 PM, in article f2q3d.468810$%_6.389154@attbi_s01, "KWW" <kwalker@nospamaircooled.net> wrote: > Bummer. Last week I had to get a tire replaced on my '93 Accord (alignment > caused premature wear) and, today, as I loosened the lugnuts to do some [quoted text clipped - 19 lines] > Anyway, what are the odds that > (a) They will take any responsibility for the problem. Depends on the shop. Probably not too likely. > (b) That is actually happened as a result of their actions? Maybe. Your hypothesis is as good as any - that all the studs on that wheel were overtorqued and weakened at some point in the past. In that case, whatever the last shop did was the final straw that caused them to break, but possibly not the source of the original damage. > Maybe I can compromise and get them to loosen all of the bolts on the rotor > using their airwrenches and then I can just tighten them close enough to > spec so that I can drive it home and loosen them back myself. This might be your best course of action. If you present it to them carefully and they don't have 1,000 cars lined up waiting, they might go for it. > How difficult is it for a machine shop to press in another stud? As a > general rule, should I go ahead and put in all 4 new? What do the shops > charge? If, as you say, there are signs of stretching on the other lugs as well, you probably should replace them all. It will be easier to drive out the unbroken ones anyway. They should just pull in by tightening down the lug nuts (use a spacer or hang the wheel on it so you don't run out of space in the nut). I don't think you need a machine shop to do it. > Thanks! > KWW Thanks for the feedback! I will have to try it. I guess if I put neverseize on it or something... but given that the driver's side naturally wants to unscrew as it rotates, I short of don't want to do too much to lubricate that side. KWW > On 9/19/04 8:06 PM, in article f2q3d.468810$%_6.389154@attbi_s01, "KWW" > <kwalker@nospamaircooled.net> wrote: [quoted text clipped - 54 lines] > > Thanks! > > KWW >Thanks for the feedback! I will have to try it. I guess if I put >neverseize on it or something... but given that the driver's side naturally >wants to unscrew as it rotates, I short of don't want to do too much to >lubricate that side. Anti-sieze compound is the way to go. I have been using Permatex (same can) for 20+ years and I put it on anything I screw together on my cars. Always works great - especially on lug nuts and spark plugs. >>Thanks for the feedback! I will have to try it. I guess if I put >>neverseize on it or something... but given that the driver's side naturally [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > (same can) for 20+ years and I put it on anything I screw together on > my cars. Always works great - especially on lug nuts and spark plugs. Heh, I've had the same small can of Never Seez (IIRC) for about 30. It's like Brylcream - a little dab'll do ya. http://www.anti-seizecompounds.com/ > >>Thanks for the feedback! I will have to try it. I guess if I put > >>neverseize on it or something... but given that the driver's side naturally [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > > http://www.anti-seizecompounds.com/ Just bear in mind that when you "lubricate" fasteners that have a "dry" torque spec, it is easy to over torque. That being said, I also am a fan of lubing wheel studs but in the forty plus years that I've been fiddlin' with cars, I just use cup grease...  SignatureJT Just tooling through cyberspace in my ancient G4 Finally stopped by the tire place and they wouldn't take "NO" for an answer in claiming that they are responsible and want to send it down the street to get a new lug put in. With +140k miles on the car I thought it unreasonable to blame them for the bolt snapping... it may have been weakened before then... but they had overtightened it or cross threaded it, that is for certain. Nice! SignatureKWW > > >>Thanks for the feedback! I will have to try it. I guess if I put > > >>neverseize on it or something... but given that the driver's side naturally [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > fan of lubing wheel studs but in the forty plus years that I've been > fiddlin' with cars, I just use cup grease... This is a common occurrence at any tire place. A lot of places use an air gun and do not care if the bolt is on properly or not and also do not torque the bolts to the proper specs of each manufaturer. I used to take my cars to this one tire place, and after having them strip 2 for 2 of my cars I haven't gone back to them since for tires. Luckily I loosen the bolts and re-torque them to specs after I get the car back, in case I should find that this occurs. This way the shop can't make up any excuses that you took the car somewhere else. Nick >Bummer. Last week I had to get a tire replaced on my '93 Accord (alignment >caused premature wear) and, today, as I loosened the lugnuts to do some [quoted text clipped - 31 lines] >Thanks! >KWW |
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