Thread: Good lug nuts
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Old 09-22-2021, 05:31 PM   #5 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Evildky View Post
The lugnuts didn't strip your studs, you did. Either you had not enough engagement from thick wheels or spacers or you over torqued the lug nuts. as already stated you should have at least as much thread engagement as the diameter of the stud (12mm). If your clinging on by 3 threads a different lug nut isn't going to help, you'll need longer studs.

Okay thank you for the input, I think my thread engagement is good so I might’ve overtorqued them by hand. Next time I will use a torque wrench but I didn’t think it was necessary at the time because I was adjusting my coil overs.


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