mkk41
US Veteran
Many of the new aluminum and magnesium wheels have a lug nut torque spec. Ya can actually distort the soft metal to the point where it grips the body of well-type nuts and will gall and get permanantly stuck.
Picked up a used trailer last month and before a 150 mile trip, decided to repack the bearings. One side went sort of OK. I had to lean my considerable body mass to get the lug nuts loose. The other side was a nonstarter. They don't budge. I guess I will have to take it to a shop with an impact wrench..
Fortunately I had the four socket lug wrench.
Do you people not know the trick to break lug nuts loose? Stand on the lug wrench with 1 foot while balancing yourself against the vehicle. A few bounces should break it free. As for the OP whose lug wrench didn't fit, I'd be hitting the Toyota dealership up for that bill.
I had a mildly unsettling experience yesterday. My twelve year old and I where 5 miles out in the desert and I got a flat on my 2007 Toyota Tacoma. I cranked down the spare, jacked up the truck a bit and to my dismay abruptly discovered the OEM lug wrench (I bought this rice burner new) did not fit the OEM lugs on the OEM wheels.
We had one and a half quarts of water and one hat and started walking. I left a 20 gauge shotgun & 200 rounds of ammo in the truck with the same number of clays. Yes, I thought about bringing the gun, but it was 100 degrees even outside and we didn't need to lug along another 6.5 lbs of weight.
It took us 2 hours to walk out, got the boy into a motel room to cool down, I then spent $110.00 for a service truck to go back up there with me to change the tire.
I mention this story to get all you guys and gals with new or new used vehicles to go check that the damn lug wrenches fit your lugs. All I can think about this is normally we go a lot further back in the boonies and this story cold have turned out a lot of different ways if we would have yesterday.
I will be talking to my Toyota representative tomorrow.
Absolutely. I always loosen and retighten the nuts if some shop has worked on our vehicles. The only exception is a certain tire shop I prefer - I've watched them use a torque wrench to remount my wheels.
Many of the new aluminum and magnesium wheels have a lug nut torque spec. Ya can actually distort the soft metal to the point where it grips the body of well-type nuts and will gall and get permanantly stuck.