Would you believe it?! I was doing regular maintenance, and when I went to rotate tires I broke off a stud. Why? Because the wheel nut was cross-threaded! What makes it more bad is that was my new stud from last time this happened! That's twice in a row a repair place has screwed over my car fixing something! RAWR!
Don't the pro mechanics teach their n00bs how to put on a wheel the right way?! It would save them money from having to re-fix cars from stupid crap like this!
If you want it done right you have to do i yourself!
I'm gonna have to build a mini garage on the side of the house complete with floor lift so I can work on my own car without the "help" of a pro service!
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We all drive in a yellow Cavalier...
hey thanks for letting us know!
anyway, that sucks.....I have never sent a car to a garage, but I have to ask you one question. I don't want to sound like a dick about this but, if you had the means and the knowledge to change the wheel stud yourself, why didn't you do it in the first place?!?
Impreza WRX wrote:
Don't the pro mechanics teach their n00bs how to put on a wheel the right way?! It would save them money from having to re-fix cars from stupid crap like this!
teh thing here is, if YOU werent rotating your tires/whatever you were doing wit the wheel off, they would have told you they snapped another lug, made you pay for it, and therefore made more money off you.
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If you want it done right you have to do i yourself!
qft.
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Well I coaxed it up to Miami and went back to the shop that did it and they fixed it no charge.
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We all drive in a yellow Cavalier...
And of course now that right front wheel has three different color wheel nuts. Two are old faded color, two are new shiny color, and one is zinc colored.
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We all drive in a yellow Cavalier...
I'm willing to totally shame myself by sharing this story:
Last fall was when I picked up my first aftermarket wheels, and was also the first time I changed my own tires. I started on the back wheels, thankfully. I didn't have either wheel aligned quite right, but didn't know enough to back up half a turn on the lug and make sure it threaded right before applying the torque. Before the night was over, I buggered 8 of the lugs and 6 of the studs. My local mechanic managed to keep a straight face as I explained this to him, and paid the resulting $190 bill to have them replaced or re-threaded where possible. We both agreed it was probably good that I left the front wheels alone that time.
Thankfully, I didn't repeat that performance when I finally got the wheels installed two days later.
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