/diy/ - Do It Yourself

>>1999906
Yeah that fucking blows. I had a similar situation awhile back. Began with the tire shop counting to 20 ugga dugga with the air supply turnt to 11, it’s those glorious Chrysler lug nuts with some chrome hard metal cap over a soft ass nut underneath. Try to use the tire iron in the car, the thing bends before the nut cracks loose, strips the fuck out of the nut. Plugged the tire without removing it, made it home, try to use extractors on the nut and it just shreds the outer cap, and then the extractors would peel off layers of this soft ass metal the interior nut was made of before it ever cracked the lug loose. Had to drill the stud out.

>>1955893
>>1955903
If I have a shop touch my wheels, I make sure to properly torque them when I get home. A few years back I got new tires at the Goodyear joint, they slammed the lugs on so hard, literally like semi-truck torque. It was only some weeks after I got the new tires, I got a nail in one so I was going to plug it at the gas station before doing more damage. Grabbed the ~18” long tire iron, one of those L-shaped guys from the spare kit, try to take the wheel off to plug it easier, the lugs were so tight that the wrench twisted at the L-bend and got cockeyed on the nut and rounded it.

Luckily I was able to plug it on the car, so I didn’t have to call a tow. When I gor home, I realize glorious Chrysler products use those lug nuts with a hard chrome cap and some soft metal under, so when I tried to get an extractor on there, it split off the chrome cap, then I pound on the next smaller extractor, and the lugs are so tight that even with a good bite, it shaves off chunks of metal before cracking the nut loose.

Ended up having to drill out the stud, replaced the stud and the nut.

>>1791908
This. /o/ is full of people like me who ride the bus and trade anime stickers.