So, it’s just not safe to “make do with four lug nuts.” Although my wife keeps suggesting I try it. Also, since you tightened ...

Learn more. Lug nuts keep you safe and can enhance your car's appearance What’s less than an inch in diameter and keeps your car’s wheels from flying off the axles? Lug nuts. Besides securing ...

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Typically, just one lug nut on a wheel will be locking, and the rest will be standard. Each set of locking nuts usually comes with a key, or a socket, to fit its specific pattern. “If the car ...

A wheel spacer is a small disc that goes between a car's wheel and the hub ... Some spacers use a second set of lug nuts or an adapter to change a vehicle's bolt pattern, and those will be ...

I over-tightened a lug nut on an alloy wheel. It seems to have pushed right through the alloy and is up against the metal on the other side. Visit the Car Talk website at www.cartalk.com.

I over-tightened a lug nut on an alloy wheel. It seems to have pushed right through the alloy and is up against the metal on the other ...

Dear Car Talk: I over-tightened a lug nut on an alloy wheel. It seems to have pushed right through the alloy and is up against the metal on the other side.