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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It is a problem. I worked for a company that had shuttle buses with the same size tires & wheels & twice after the summer tires were changed to winter tires the rear wheels fell off & sheared off the wheel studs. I complained to the tire company that they did not properly torque the wheels. I saw that they used an impact gun , followed up with a torque wrench, but the torque wrench only showed that the torque was up to a value & not the actual torque. For instance if the impact wrench tightened to 170lbs, and the torque value is 140lbs, it is over torqued. It is very important.
