So much for cheap oil changes

[Mazin]

Wow, they really buggered it up didn't they? Made it so the lug nuts wouldn't spin off at all?

Yea it just spun but no travel. Guess thats what I get for being lazy on brake changes.
I won't metion why I won't lend out a torque wrench anymore, lets just say it involves a buddy, a broken torque wrench and Aluminum heads on my F150.

[waxthis]

I've had countless issues with fast lube joints, been years since any of them have touched my vehicles. Best one to date was when reputable shop here in town did a tranny flush. They hooked the machine to the engine cooler line and flushed and filled the engine with tranny fluid.....
..................WTF.

[funkymonkey1111]

Yea even if I do have a quick change done I always look at it before I leave. Also don't go to Just for brakes, I went once because I was being lazy and the asshats striped 2 out of 5 lugs on each tire on my f150. yea let me say that was a blast to drill out and replace studs and lugs.

Discount Tire broke one of my lugs once and called a shop they contracted with and told them i was coming right over. the shop had the lug replaced in just a few minutes. That's how something like that should be handled

[rondog]

Why did you have to drill them? You take a bfh and smack the old ones out and then an impact gun and pull the new ones in. You have to take the brakes apart but that isn't time consuming like drilling.

I had to do that once on a buddy's Ford van in a state park campground in OK. They left the house knowing he had two studs broken off, and when he checked again at the campground, another was gone and he only had two lugnuts holding the wheel on. Called me to come help. At least he'd already bought five new studs and nuts, I just had to stop by his house and get them. It was a lot of work, but easier than I expected.

But that's exactly what I did, drove the old ones out, lubed the new ones with anti-sieze, and pulled them in with an impact. Can't say that the other folks in the campground were too pleased with all the racket though.

[Mazin]

Discount Tire broke one of my lugs once and called a shop they contracted with and told them i was coming right over. the shop had the lug replaced in just a few minutes. That's how something like that should be handled

It was a year and a half later when I noticed, I went to upgrade rotors and had a happy surprise.

[funkymonkey1111]

It was a year and a half later when I noticed.

holy moly!

[tmleadr03]

Yea it just spun but no travel. Guess thats what I get for being lazy on brake changes.
I won't metion why I won't lend out a torque wrench anymore, lets just say it involves a buddy, a broken torque wrench and Aluminum heads on my F150.

I have seen a few like that. I would hit it with the impact gun and spin it hoping it would finally catch when the metal expanded a bit. Some times it works, sometimes I would bust out the air hammer with a chisel bit. When it is buggered like that it can be a bastard of a job.

[AirbornePathogen]

Since when do you need to balance tires to rotate them?

It never hurts. Tire/wheel balance changes as tires wear, it doesn't hurt to re-balance tires when you rotate them.

[DSull]

You hit the nail on the head, I do my own oil changes, air filters, wiper blades, etc. I went to a local garage and they told me that I didn't have any zerk fittings to grease so while the truck was on the rack I showed them the zerk fittings. It's the last time I took my truck there.