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I feel your pain Brother.
This is what happened to me....
My daughter had new tires put on her Jetta and later on that day she had asked me to check her brakes. When I tried to remove the lug nuts I couldn't loosen them one bit. So I thought to myself, "no problem, I'll crank up the compressor and use the impact." I set it to max so I could just zip them off, but no. At max torque they wouldn't move. I'm talking 320 ft./lbs. of torque !
I grabbed my Snap-On torque wrench and drove to the tire shop. I spoke to the manager about their procedures in using proper torque values when tightening lug nuts. He assured me that the lugs were properly torqued and stated that might air gun must be at fault. So I handed him my torque wrench, preset to 80 ft/lbs (proper torque value for the Jetta) and asked him to remove a lug nut. To his surprise, he couldn't. So I reset the torque wrench to its max value, 360 ft/lbs and he still couldn't remove the lugs.
He finally got his air gun to remove them and used the torque wrench to tighten them.
The dumb-a$$.
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"A good sense of humor is the best thing to have in your toolbox when working on these cars."
Quote by Charles Freeborn, Pelican.
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