Originally Posted By: HangFire
Approaching a million driven miles, all of it on self-maintained vehicles with Anti-Sieze on the lugs. Never had a loose lug nut, let alone a lost one. Ever.
Only problems with stuck nuts is immediately after buying new tires. I have now made it a habit to remove and retorque (with torque wrench) after every service involving tire removal. I do all my own rotations.
Local Goodyear Tire & Auto takes the cake for overtorquing. Not only somewhere around 300 ft/pounds, but cross-threaded almost half of my lugs. Service manager swore on the phone that couldn't happen with torque sticks. I brought in several lugs (not nuts), slammed them down on the counter and said "explain to me how your torque sticks prevented this cross-threading."
They paid for new dealer lugs. Fortunately it was on a Dodge pickup, relatively easy for ME to replace. Never let those apes near my truck again.
This is my fear as well. I'm glad I am not the only one who feels this way about taking my vehicle in for something as simple as tire maintenance. I just don't trust them. You can't. And you are yet another good example of why. If you look at the age, pay grade, and skill level of the kids working at these, "Tire Centers", you're playing Russian Roulette to trust them to be working on your vehicle. They're all air gun happy, and most all of them simply don't care. They don't use anti seize. And they all lie worse than politicians. Quick and dirty, and tell the customer only what he or she wants to hear, in order to move them out the door as quickly as possible after swiping their card.
This is why at 65 years of age I still insist on crawling around on my driveway doing oil changes and tire rotations. The less any of my vehicles see of these kindergarten "Auto Service Centers", the better. And every time I'm forced to deal with them, I spend a considerable amount of time checking over every thing they did, or said they did. I've found too many things over the years to simply get in the car and start driving. At least with any confidence. The only way around this is to either do it yourself, (which I'm quickly getting too old to do), or else if you're independently wealthy, hire your own people like Jay Leno does. I'm not so I always keep a set of old clothes for cleaning my driveway with my back and rear end.