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Check your lug nuts!!!!

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#1 ·
FYI: CHECK YOUR LUG NUTS!!! As many of you already know, when installing aluminum wheels. It is good practice to re-tighten the lugs after driving on them for 50 miles after the initial install. Most auto manufacturers tighten them beyond tight. So this isn't really an issue. Well today, I was installing my new 18 inch O.Z. F1 corsas. When I went to take the OEM lugs off, I expected them to be very tight (from past experience). But they were not. My 10 year old could have taken them off!!! So please check your lugs ASAP for your safety and everyone else. :SHOCKED:
 
#9 ·
I had the opposite problem... I used my impact wrench on them to get them off and one i had to go to as high PSI as i could and let sit there trying to turn for like a minute or two... That would be fun to try and take off if i had a flat... when an impact wrench can barely do it... Ohwell fixed now...
 
#10 ·
jaywo said:
I had the opposite problem... I used my impact wrench on them to get them off and one i had to go to as high PSI as i could and let sit there trying to turn for like a minute or two... That would be fun to try and take off if i had a flat... when an impact wrench can barely do it... Ohwell fixed now...
Sometimes if you actually tighten the lug for a split second, then try to loosen it, that'll help. I had to do that with my '94 when I was changing my brakes.
 
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