It's snowing

"Highlander-Datsuns are Forever" (jamesbowland) 11/05/2015 at 17:08 • Filed to: None

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Should have put my snow tires on last weekend.

Future next gen S2000 owner > Highlander-Datsuns are Forever 11/05/2015 at 17:14

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I put mine on last night. Apparently the clowns used an impact to tighten the lugs nuts last time the car was in the dealership.

Snapped a 3/8” 3” extension, had to run out and buy the correct size for my impact gun. Then the impact struggled with about half of them.

I wasn’t a happy camper.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > Highlander-Datsuns are Forever 11/05/2015 at 17:15

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I like that 1971 Ford tow truck.

Justin Hughes > Highlander-Datsuns are Forever 11/05/2015 at 17:15

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I put mine on last week. As a result it was over 70*F here today and I took my motorcycle to work.

pip bip - choose Corrour > Future next gen S2000 owner 11/05/2015 at 17:52

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i’m lucky i never have to worry about that crap.

Highlander-Datsuns are Forever > Future next gen S2000 owner 11/05/2015 at 18:29

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I put oil on the wheel studs so they do come off at the end of summer or winter.

Highlander-Datsuns are Forever > Justin Hughes 11/05/2015 at 18:30

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Yeah I didn’t want to jinkx anything so I waited. I hear its a 5 hour turn around at Les Swab right now.

PatBateman > Highlander-Datsuns are Forever 11/05/2015 at 19:08

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Snnn... Snnnnoooooog? Sssss-now? Sanonow?

How do you pronounce that word?

Dingers Ghost, Champion Jockey > Highlander-Datsuns are Forever 11/05/2015 at 21:23

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I admit, I did exactly what the picture says last month. The first day of snow, still on my junk summer tires (Bridgestone Dueler H/T), come over the crest of a hill and.... ended up on my doors in a ditch. Later that day, pull out my winter tires (Cooper AT/3), found out they were also shot and I forgot about it, next day I ordered and installed 4 Firestone Winterforce’s.

Not a flake of snow since I put them on either.

Highlander-Datsuns are Forever > Dingers Ghost, Champion Jockey 11/05/2015 at 22:23

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I haven’t been off the road in a while. Keeping my fingers crossed. I’m on season 4 on a set of Blizzaks on a Mazda 3, the tires are still in pretty good shape. Where I live there is actually tons of ice and snow so you really can’t skimp.

Dingers Ghost, Champion Jockey > Highlander-Datsuns are Forever 11/06/2015 at 06:28

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Oh I live in NW PA, right smack in the middle of the snow belt. Snow and ice is nothing new to me either haha

bryan40oop > Highlander-Datsuns are Forever 11/06/2015 at 09:58

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Doesn’t hurt to put it on the back of the wheel either, keeps it from sticking to the hub/rotor/drum.

brianbrannon > Future next gen S2000 owner 11/07/2015 at 16:15

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Every lug nut in every shop is put on with an impact. Just because you have low quality tools and don’t understand that bolts require more torque to remove than install is no reason to malign whoever worked on it before.

Future next gen S2000 owner > brianbrannon 11/09/2015 at 10:17

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Here is the problem with your argument. Wheels need to be torqued to a certain value. Even my “low quality” impact easily exceeds the recommended torque number for my wheels on its lowest setting. Every time I torque my wheels to the correct value, I have zero trouble taking them off. Aluminum wheels can crack when an impact is used to tighten the lugs.

If every shop is using an impact, then every shop is staffed with clowns who don’t understand proper torque values.

If I had a flat, I would have been stuck until a tow truck arrives assuming I have cell coverage. There is no way I would have been able to put the spare on with the tire iron. So when a shop has the potential to leave me stranded somewhere because they are lazy and don’t want to do the job correctly, again, clowns.

brianbrannon > Future next gen S2000 owner 11/11/2015 at 12:41

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Having spent fifteen years as a professional mechanic I’ve seen zero wheels put on by hand. I’ve had to have the fattest guy in the shop stand on a breaker bar many times to get Volvo lug bolts out. Yet, no impact gun can tighten to that torque. The argument stands that removal torque is greater than install torque. Breaking a 3/8 extension of unknown quality is also normal if you misuse it in a high torque application

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > brianbrannon 11/15/2015 at 18:16

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I think that lugnuts get overtorqued generally.

brianbrannon > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 11/15/2015 at 19:46

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http://www.torquestick.com/

the slight amout they get over torqued by does not account for how hard they are to get off. It’s corrosion and heat cycles

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > brianbrannon 11/15/2015 at 20:24

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I’m clear on the concept of torquesticks. But when you look up the torque specification on lug nuts, and use a torque wrench to apply the right amount of torque, it’s not as tight as one might think. People without torque wrenches or torquesticks think that lugnuts need to be HELL OF tight or the wheels will fall off. That’s all I was saying.