Quote Originally Posted by wwli
I have always use Anti-sieze on all of my cars so the threads do not dry out. Please remember that if your tighten a dry thread it will give you a false reading as well.
My recommendation is to use a little bit to keep the threads from getting stuck.
Just my $0.02.
That might be the case for people who take their wheels off every 50-100k miles. But if your wheels come on and off quite often, do not use it.
Quote Originally Posted by turbob20
never put anything on your wheel studs. if that was so it would be recomended from the factory. what happened is more than likely they didnt start the nuts by hand first and just hit them and crossed them all the way up. i would personally took it back to them and said fix your f@@k up! but thats just me.
exactly.
Quote Originally Posted by khaxnguyen
you broke your studs because you didnt let the lug studs cool down after driving it. common mistake
What? These are street cars, the stud gets up to what temp? maybe 150º? We test drive cars nice and long at my shop and then we pull them in and remove the nuts. Only time they break is when the idiot before use jammed them on and cross threaded them.

-Ant.