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StephJohn2010
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Apr 30, 2019

New Tires, should the lug nuts have a re-tighening check?

I'm getting new tires for my motorhome. The tire guy said it is not necessary to run motorhome 50 or 100 miles and then come back for a lug nut tightness check. I've thought I've heard that you shou...
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FIRE_UP
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May 02, 2019
Valkyriebush wrote:
I've never been told to come back over years of tire changes. No issues.


Yep, us too, never been back to a tire service center to "re-torque" the lugs. I've had ours off several times (22.5 Alloys)for whatever service I needed to do and I torque them to 450 ft. lbs. and never, ever re-torqued them. They haven't fallen off yet.
Scott

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