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Originally Posted by KNS
On the Porsche I bring wheels in loose to preclude crap like this but it's not always possible with the daily driver.
So I brought my daily driver to C&R tire (a Tire Rack recommended installer) and had my breaker bar with me in the trunk. As soon as they finished installing the new tires I pulled out my breaker bar from the trunk and tried to break the nuts loose. Prior to starting the work I said to the guy at the desk: "Please make a note on the paperwork and do not over torque the lug nuts". He indeed wrote it down.
The breaker bar wouldn't budge. I was pissed. I walked in and got the manager whom I spoke with earlier, handed him my breaker bar and asked him to get any of the nuts loose. He couldn't. "How am I supposed to get this off on the side of the highway with a flat?" I asked - pissed.
He apologized and said they do it as habit because they don't wheels coming off on the road...
I wish I the equipment at home to do tires.
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Complete BS. What happens when the lugs shear from excessive torque?
Unsafe.
Rjp