Bruce Leroy
11-27-2008, 11:00 AM
Anyone ever experienced this? Which brand did you have?
A month ago, I got some "tuner" lugs for my civic from Discount Tire. I installed them like i always do, antisieze on the studs, hand tightned and torqued to 80 lbs. I took one wheel off today to clean it, and I noticed that there was alot of white corrosion on the stud, but didn't really think anything of it. I put the wheel back on and As i'm torquing them, I noticed that one stud is not getting tighter, so i try to pull the wheel back off to see what the problem is. 2 nuts come off ok, one stud snapped, and the other stud spins in the hole like it stripped the hub.
So now I have 2 damaged studs, and i think the lugnuts are the cause. Maybe they are made of a different metal that caused the corrosion on the studs? And I'm afraid to take the other wheels off because i think they might break too.
A month ago, I got some "tuner" lugs for my civic from Discount Tire. I installed them like i always do, antisieze on the studs, hand tightned and torqued to 80 lbs. I took one wheel off today to clean it, and I noticed that there was alot of white corrosion on the stud, but didn't really think anything of it. I put the wheel back on and As i'm torquing them, I noticed that one stud is not getting tighter, so i try to pull the wheel back off to see what the problem is. 2 nuts come off ok, one stud snapped, and the other stud spins in the hole like it stripped the hub.
So now I have 2 damaged studs, and i think the lugnuts are the cause. Maybe they are made of a different metal that caused the corrosion on the studs? And I'm afraid to take the other wheels off because i think they might break too.