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Originally Posted by radlynx
Happened to me when I had my tires replaced. They tightened it so much my electric impact gun can't do it. I had to use a 3 feet breaker bar and I was struggling on that too. I thought the lug bolts will break. If you get a flat tire where no one else can help, you will be stranded.
I rotate my tires now and torque it and and anti seize my rim and hub mating surface and will never come back to that repair shop. That's 1 less customer for them.
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Yes other than broken studs, as you mentioned it's very hard to impossible to get the lugs loose on the side of the road with no real tools other than what comes with the vehicle when you have a flat if they tightened them with a high torque impact wrench, that scenario was exactly what got me watching them like a hawk when doing my tires, it took me over 2 hours to get my lugs broken loose with just a L shaped lug wrench on the side of the road to change a flat on my work truck, I actually broke the L shaped lug wrench on the last 2 lug nuts and had to call a builder I knew was close by since I had just left his job site before the flat and it still took a good effort using his L shaped lug wrench which luckily didn't break and got the last 2 loose, never again!!