wopachop wrote:
We limp it 10mph to the place we are camping and plan is to call AAA.
We do. Triple A comes out with his impact. Same deal the lug nut is just spinning. Says he needs to talk with management. Needs a special tool that Napa caries.
We think the outer shell of the lug nut might have been spinning.
Had to come back to this......the AAA guy you got....didn't know
s*** from shinola!
Tow operators range from excellent to incompetent - kinda like Forrest Gump and the box of chocolates. Was your Tow op working at Taco Bell last week - or in a machine shop?
Ex: The DW and self are returning from a funeral in our "go to funeral clothes". Stop on the way home for lunch. Come out to my
Dodge 1T (not a dually) - and see I have a flat. It's about 100 degrees - could change to the spare myself, but why - so I call AAA.
Polite AAA guy in a tow truck shows up pretty quickly, starts to swap the flat for the spare - discovers he doesn't have the right size socket for the lugs.
Maybe he "thought" he would use the (junk) wrench supplied by the factory - or "whatever" - - but I let him use my 3/4 drive socket on a beam slider to do the job. (I was OK with his jack, LOL).
Ditto tire shop employees with Impact wrenches. (Watch to see if they complete the job with a TQ wrench - or the impact).
Was your AAA guy going to mount the spare with his impact??
BTW - the lug nut covers *ARE* common - had those on a boat trailer.
When new they: Fit nice, look good - until you apply some serious torque without removing the cover...then they distort & the "real" lug nut doesn't turn.
With some age - a bit of rust/corrosion (they won't come off easily) and you may *think* they are the lug nut.
Roll on.
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