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sperry · 2003-09-01, 05:40 PM

Well, the fellas over at Discount Tire used an impact wrench on my lugs... and while they only used it to zap the nuts on, and not to torque it, I think they damaged one of my lugs.

When I swapped my race tires on Friday, I had a hard time getting one of the nuts off the RF tire. Today when I swapped the P1's on, I sheared a lug taking that nut off. I'm pretty sure some of the other nuts are on their way down the road to shearing too, since they weren't all that smooth going on either.

This seems to be pretty epidemic with Discount Tire... they did the same thing to me roommate's Bimmer... 'cept he's got wheel bolts, no lugs. DT was super cool about it for him though, and even paid the $200 some odd dollars to get a new hub installed! Hopefully they'll be cool about it for me too and replace my stripped and sheared lugs and give me a replacement set of lug nuts.

2003-09-01, 05:40 PM	#1
sperry The Doink Real Name: Scott Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Portland, OR Posts: 20,335 Car: '09 OBXT, '02 WRX, '96 Miata Class: PDX/TT-6 The way out is through	Busted Lug nut... stupid air tools! Well, the fellas over at Discount Tire used an impact wrench on my lugs... and while they only used it to zap the nuts on, and not to torque it, I think they damaged one of my lugs. When I swapped my race tires on Friday, I had a hard time getting one of the nuts off the RF tire. Today when I swapped the P1's on, I sheared a lug taking that nut off. I'm pretty sure some of the other nuts are on their way down the road to shearing too, since they weren't all that smooth going on either. This seems to be pretty epidemic with Discount Tire... they did the same thing to me roommate's Bimmer... 'cept he's got wheel bolts, no lugs. DT was super cool about it for him though, and even paid the $200 some odd dollars to get a new hub installed! Hopefully they'll be cool about it for me too and replace my stripped and sheared lugs and give me a replacement set of lug nuts. __________________ Is you is, or is you ain't, my con-stit-u-ints?