Quote Originally Posted by Silver280zx
Hey man, from experience, never take your car to sams club to get tires put on, trust me i know from expirience. They stripped out 6 of my studs, one time, then three, the next time i got it aligned and balenced, i highly recomend sears.
Quote Originally Posted by redciv1
BTW Speedminded, I just went through the whole impact gun situation with my wife's car. Seems like the car went in for transmission work and they obviously used a impact gun. Went to change the brakes and could not get 3 of the lugs off. Have a Chrysler Concorde so they have those "caps" on the lug nuts. Those broke off. A simple 1 hr brake job took 4 days to complete. People don't realize that it doesn't take a lot of muscle to tighten the lugs.
The best part is they aren't liable for broken studs, isn't it great?! They crank them down with the impact and for the ones that do use a torque wrench I see them bouncing on it like it's an inflatable blow up doll. They have no concept of what they are doing...com'n, it's not that hard to properly use a tool!

I went to Harbor Freight and picked up a 36" breaker bar for like $20-25 then a 1" to 1/2" converter for the impact sockets, not to mention the handle from my steel jack will slide over the end of it...that's what I use to break axle nuts loose and undo retarded peoples mistakes