Methinks the bolts are pretty much the same, (hardened) but now the tar
monkeys all want the 1000 ft/lb rattle renches. no bolt made for 40-80
ft/lb will stand up to that.
Just another good reason to never let the tarshop monkeys put a wheel on
your car!
One of my monkeys a few years ago put the 1" rattle rench on the truck
lug nut (Duplex) counterclockwise on the LH thread. He didn't stop
until he broke off several of the bolts. The 1" rattle rench has a LOT
of torque. I was not happy!
Peter Frederick via Mercedes wrote on 10/24/19 8:51 PM:
The main problem is that the electronics are not cheap, and the only way to
keep the vehicles affordable for the masses is to reduce the overall build
quality.
Gonna be a problem now that the average car loan is 5 years -- I'm not sure
most modern vehicles are still going to be running at 5 years. Way too many
undamaged fairly new cars at the U-Pull_it yards.....
Speaking of junk, a friend of mine had the wheel fall off of his 07 Pontiac G6
(same as a Chebbie Malibu, a car I destest) the other day. Lug bolts. all 5,
broke off. In the nearly 50 years I've been driving and paying attention to
cars, I've never seen all five lug bolts fail that way, in fact I have NEVER
seen a broken lug bolt that wasn't severely abused by using a 10ft cheater bar
or something similar.
Seems this isn't at all uncommon, all the parts places stock replacement lug
studs! How did we unlearn how to make decent lug studs?
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