Lug Nuts - Lug Wrench Mismatch?
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The original lugs are 19mm head (with thread 12mmX1.5mm) and they are not worth keeping. They are ordinary nuts with a sheet of SS covering them and they are a real pain, as they slip and deform, they are plain useless! The original wheel spanner is of the same quality, or rather- lack of same!
The wheel nuts should be lubricated with a bit of grease and tightened by hand, not lightly and not forcefully, but with a good tug. Remember it might be yourself that has to take them off on an empty stretch of road.
No nut will go tight, if the thread is right and the nut fitting for the purpose, with an exception of SS nuts, that fret sometimes for no good reason.
So inspect the lugs and see if they are right for the use, thread, hole, washer etc and be glad, if they have been replaced with ordinary type lugs.
And then get a spanner that fits!
The wheel nuts should be lubricated with a bit of grease and tightened by hand, not lightly and not forcefully, but with a good tug. Remember it might be yourself that has to take them off on an empty stretch of road.
No nut will go tight, if the thread is right and the nut fitting for the purpose, with an exception of SS nuts, that fret sometimes for no good reason.
So inspect the lugs and see if they are right for the use, thread, hole, washer etc and be glad, if they have been replaced with ordinary type lugs.
And then get a spanner that fits!
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The original lugs are 19mm head (with thread 12mmX1.5mm) and they are not worth keeping. They are ordinary nuts with a sheet of SS covering them and they are a real pain, as they slip and deform, they are plain useless! The original wheel spanner is of the same quality, or rather- lack of same!
The wheel nuts should be lubricated with a bit of grease and tightened by hand, not lightly and not forcefully, but with a good tug. Remember it might be yourself that has to take them off on an empty stretch of road.
No nut will go tight, if the thread is right and the nut fitting for the purpose, with an exception of SS nuts, that fret sometimes for no good reason.
So inspect the lugs and see if they are right for the use, thread, hole, washer etc and be glad, if they have been replaced with ordinary type lugs.
And then get a spanner that fits!
The wheel nuts should be lubricated with a bit of grease and tightened by hand, not lightly and not forcefully, but with a good tug. Remember it might be yourself that has to take them off on an empty stretch of road.
No nut will go tight, if the thread is right and the nut fitting for the purpose, with an exception of SS nuts, that fret sometimes for no good reason.
So inspect the lugs and see if they are right for the use, thread, hole, washer etc and be glad, if they have been replaced with ordinary type lugs.
And then get a spanner that fits!