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LUGS SNAPPED OFF! WTF ADVICE?? pics inside

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Old 03-08-2011, 12:05 AM
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In my experience, the LS has shitty lugs. The 4x100 cars have a nasty habit of doing this. I've busted a few lugs when I had the G5 from just breaking the lugs loose (Properly torqued with a torque wrench, too).

Provided your rotor and other things were not fucked up, you can install new lugs yourself. They're pressed in, so you will either need to take the hub assembly to a machine shop and have them pressed in, or you can take an open ended lug nut and some washers and use an impact wrench to press them in.
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If anyone cares to know i finally fixed her up today! Dealer wanted over $700 to fix it so i decided to do it myself.

Spent $85 on parts and $15 on a socket, took me all of maybe two hours and thats counting the multiple trips to Autozone for the socket then back to return and get the correct socket Lol and back again for a breaker bar(which i returned after use haha) and not to mention break time for pizza..

Score one for me! WOOP WOOP
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If you tighten them to much they stretch n break sorry
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Originally Posted by Nighthawk243
In my experience, the LS has shitty lugs. The 4x100 cars have a nasty habit of doing this. I've busted a few lugs when I had the G5 from just breaking the lugs loose (Properly torqued with a torque wrench, too).

Provided your rotor and other things were not fucked up, you can install new lugs yourself. They're pressed in, so you will either need to take the hub assembly to a machine shop and have them pressed in, or you can take an open ended lug nut and some washers and use an impact wrench to press them in.
i ended up just swapping out the whole hub and i did have to replace the rotor as well, ended up pretty cheap
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Originally Posted by Ph3lix_004
i ended up just swapping out the whole hub and i did have to replace the rotor as well, ended up pretty cheap
Glad you got it fixed, Pizza break yay!
Id have swaped out BOTH rotors though, for even wear, as well as all 4 front pads, while I was in there. But thats just me.
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Originally Posted by Ph3lix_004
are you saying you like it loose??
Thanks and lesson well learned trust me.. im just trying to get it fixed i cant afford repairs right now i leave for basic in two months and im broke as FKUC


I will be doing this tomorrow first thing
I joined the Army on my last $50 bucks. Good luck, I'm active duty and if you can survive the first 18 months of active duty, you'll be set =)

Sucks about the car though!
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BEEN THERE, DONE THAT


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sounds like over torqing to meeee!
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i hit a nasty pothole lol
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I had the same problem with the dealer by me. I had wheel studs snap off regularly for a while so I went in for warranty work and they said that it was the lowering springs or my aftermarket rims. I hate dealers!! Sorry to hear that happened but ur ok and that's the big part
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Dont dealerships get paid for warranty work? So why are they so desprate to weasle their way out? DO they get paid MORE NOT to do warranty work?
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Seems like you went a long ways before stopping.

Glad you're ok though.
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Originally Posted by insylem
Glad you got it fixed, Pizza break yay!
Id have swaped out BOTH rotors though, for even wear, as well as all 4 front pads, while I was in there. But thats just me.
the other side was swapped a week before the incident by the dealer under warranty lol they just refused to do the other side

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I joined the Army on my last $50 bucks. Good luck, I'm active duty and if you can survive the first 18 months of active duty, you'll be set =)

Sucks about the car though!
lol thanks man, im actually down to my last like $54 so i feel ya but i still have two months before i leave... gotta get a job for two months

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Seems like you went a long ways before stopping.

Glad you're ok though.
yup **** was pretty scary luckily i was in a residential area so wasnt going fast at all
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Yes on many jobs the mechanics get paid less time for warrantee than they do for customer pays. Gm updates the flat rates on DP but the rates don't get adjusted on the customer pays.
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Originally Posted by insylem
Dont dealerships get paid for warranty work? So why are they so desprate to weasle their way out? DO they get paid MORE NOT to do warranty work?
they get paid **** for warranty work, unless they are really slow, they will always try to get out of it because with that time they can be working on another car and making more money, but they might even be getting paid salary so if they don't want to fix it...
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Originally Posted by picsbypenny
BEEN THERE, DONE THAT


Why does the camber look off in this pic?
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