2016 escape, steel wheels with hubcaps.
About six months ago, I had a chain shop put new brakes on the car at 85k miles and flush the brake fluid.
The service manager mentioned the tech had some problems getting the rear wheel off as the lug nuts were "swollen". He said it was no big deal and quite common. He didn't put new lug nuts on, and I wish he did.
I was looking at the lugs, I would say 18 out of 20 of the lugs on the whole car are swollen.
I purchased the dorman OE FIX one piece lug nuts from rockauto to replace them with.
What a job, I had to hammer my 19mm impact socket on each lug with a dead blow hammer to get each one off, then zip it off with my 1/2 inch impact. Then beat the swollen lug out of my socket with an extension and a dead blow hammer.
I have 2 lugs on the rear wheel that are so chewed up, and 1 on the front, that I had to order a 19.5mm impact socket from amazon to get those off.
I'll get those off tonight when the socket arrives.
I made good use of my half inch clicker torque, and made sure all the new nuts were torqued to 100 foot pounds.
Never had a car with swollen lug nuts like this.
About six months ago, I had a chain shop put new brakes on the car at 85k miles and flush the brake fluid.
The service manager mentioned the tech had some problems getting the rear wheel off as the lug nuts were "swollen". He said it was no big deal and quite common. He didn't put new lug nuts on, and I wish he did.
I was looking at the lugs, I would say 18 out of 20 of the lugs on the whole car are swollen.
I purchased the dorman OE FIX one piece lug nuts from rockauto to replace them with.
What a job, I had to hammer my 19mm impact socket on each lug with a dead blow hammer to get each one off, then zip it off with my 1/2 inch impact. Then beat the swollen lug out of my socket with an extension and a dead blow hammer.
I have 2 lugs on the rear wheel that are so chewed up, and 1 on the front, that I had to order a 19.5mm impact socket from amazon to get those off.
I'll get those off tonight when the socket arrives.
I made good use of my half inch clicker torque, and made sure all the new nuts were torqued to 100 foot pounds.
Never had a car with swollen lug nuts like this.