LOL'n at the replies. I too have issues with over stripped (I mean torqued) lug nuts....worst case - Pep Boys....where I only take my van. I'll take the truck somewhere else, but at PB's they stopped harassing me about things since I get the tires/service there as well as the annual inspections. Had the wife take it there the last few times and NO issues. I take it and it needs a lower control arm (you know, only way to get bushings or a ball joint on a new Ford is a control arm
).
But those fookers have stripped 2 SETS of front lug nuts. I keep 2 extra sets in the house just in case they jack me up again. I tried getting them to cover me for the cost of new ones after I had to get a flat off like 2 weeks after I got NEW tires from them....I brought the stripped out nuts and they still denied it. I bitched so much the last time I was there after that - that they finally agreed to let me back there to keep an eye on them and they Tq stick it , and Tq by hand.
Hell, when I worked at UHaul....we had to Tq everything by hand. We got 'lucky' and got the Tq sticks before I quit....and then you STILL had to do it by hand afterwards, or get fired....they QC'd everything, especially the lugnuts.
But hey....some people just aren't bright enough to understand that you gotta have the wheel there to change the rubber out....
BTW - what's my pricing on a pair of 275/60/15's ???
