Swollen lug nuts

[509OBS]

My neighbor had her 2013 Ford Focus oil changed at the dealer. They informed her that the lug nuts were swollen and they could replace them for $280. She declined and asked me if I ever heard of such a thing. I never did and when I googled it my head exploded. Big problems for cars and trucks with 2 piece lugs that get deformed and can't be removed with the standard 19mm lug wrench. I picked up a 19.5 mm socket and some nuts for 50$ and saved her a few bucks after researching swollen lug nuts. I'm pretty sure Ford uses the same 2pc. lugs for the repair. Thats just crazy!

 

[Dravec]

Yeah. Really ****** factory design. Or as I like to say, "designed to fail". As are most things nowadays....

 

[1997]

wow that's just BS, designed to fail is one thing, designed to FU over is another, but sounds right these days .....

 

[0xDEADBEEF]

Deez lug nuts.

 

[Caman96]

Yeah, a real kick in the “nuts”!

 

[frito-bandito]

Deez lug nuts.

HA! Got Emmmm!

 

[Frank Enstein]

Good on you for fixing her up!

That's the kind of people that made me feel welcome here!

We have 2 rules at my house.
1) Be Kind.
2) Help when you can.

It sounds like these are in place at your house as well.

 

[H2814D]

All you really had to do was to spray some metal softener on those nuts. Shrinks 'em right up.

 

[454cid]

I've seen some lugnuts that were sort of wrapped in what looked like stainless steel. I think that's what my 82 Dodge Charger had.

 

[dave s]

I didn't know about that. My grandson does have a 2013 Ford Focus aslo and I did have to use two size sockets to pull his front wheels to help him do pads and rotors. I just figured he had used the wrong sockets on some of them and deformed them. Thanks for the info!