for the second time after bringing my car in for a tire rotation my wheel lugnuts have come loose..last week i heard a terrible noise from the front right of the car..turns out 3 of the 5 lug nuts were hand loose on the right front!!!!!!!! stock wheels..never experienced this with any car before with aluminum wheels.. anyone else ever experience this?

 

They need to be tightened to 80 lbs of tq. with a wrench to be safe, that or an airgun.

 

that is the factory specification?

 

Not uncommon.

Seems to happens often to cars that have been on the track. Thats when I have heard of it most often.

EVO owners should be checking torque monthly.

 

yeah never been on the track but will check more frequently

 

The stock rotors rust like an infection. When wheels are removed some of this rust sticks to the wheel and plenty stays on the rotor. Well, if you remount the wheel with the wheel and rotor in this condition the rust falls out and volare, loose lug nuts - simple.

When I am rotating tires the back of every wheel gets a wire wheel mounted in a drill taken to it and the same is applied to the mounting surface of the rotor. I also have to do a little scraping around the studs where the wire wheel won't reach.

Anyway, do this and you lug nut problem will be long gone.

Let a bad winter come along and we will be reading posts from people saying they can't get their wheels off. Well, they rust weld on, heehee.

 

make sure you tighten in a star pattern, or else one part of the wheel will be tighter than the other, thus allowing the looser ones to spin free

 

If you use an airgun, do check the nuts with a torque wrench afterwards. They tend to be very hit/miss and will more often than not overtighten the thing.

also, try some anti-sieze and star pattern. tighten all in a star pattern first then go around the same pattern with the torque wrench. another good idea is to check your torque wrench against another one. Sometimes, they get a bit tweaked out of calibration.

 

thanks for the help on this guys