Retorque Lug Nuts After Tire Change?
My chassis is a Ford E450. I had the recalled Michelin tires. A local tire chain put replacement tires on. They told me I needed to get the lug nuts retorqued at 100 & 500 miles (actually made me s...
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If somebody else installed the wheels, I almost always check them. I've gotten cars back from the shop with overtightened and loose nuts on the same wheel. If I installed the wheels, I almost never re-check them. I just re-mounted the front wheels on our E450 and must have gone over the nuts four times. My exception to this is a trailer, especially a tandem axle trailer, especially the left side. Ordinary driving tends to loosen right-hand threads on left side wheels, and the squirming that tight maneuvering makes on tandems makes it worse.
