| Author | Message | ||
     Mark Albrecht (Markalbrecht) Member Username: Markalbrecht Post Number: 98 Registered: 11-2002 |
Snapped one of the wheel studs on my spare tire carrier this weekend (tire guy did it -- I bitched to no avail). Any idea as to how the wheel studs are attached to the spare carrier (too lazy to pull spare off and check -- seems welded by feel)? Any ideas on on repair? Drilling out the broken stud is what comes to mind. What to do next is more troubling. | ||
| Eric Pena (Evalp) Senior Member Username: Evalp Post Number: 627 Registered: 06-2002 |
Man, what is it with those tire guys. One other guy started a thread and said a tire guy distroyed an entire set of lugs. Big money! Nothing personal but you guys need to grow some balls and get these people to repay the damage. If you where in the shop and ran over an impact wench and damged it, they would certianly make you pay for it. Go bust some balls. | ||
| John Davies (200tdi) New Member Username: 200tdi Post Number: 4 Registered: 07-2003 |
Welded. Are you sure it broke or did the whole stud come off ?? The latter is most common. To fix. remove carrier from door and reweld stud or replace with a bolt and weld. John D | ||
| Mark Albrecht (Markalbrecht) Member Username: Markalbrecht Post Number: 99 Registered: 11-2002 |
Eric -- satisfaction would not be easy. Cost and aggravation of small claims suit would far outweigh my actual damages. Interestingly though, I was reading the other thread and was about to follow Mr. Lee's advice on bringing my own socket -- not that it would have helped in this case. John -- it is snapped off. Some of the stud is in the lug nut and there is still some material in the hole in the spare tire carrier. Thanks for the answer -- I was afraid I'd need to remove the carrier (PITA) and have a new bolt welded on. | ||
| Greg Davis (Gregdavis) Senior Member Username: Gregdavis Post Number: 969 Registered: 08-2002 |
Mark, is it a DI or DII? Reason I ask is I wanted to get three new studs to make my own carrier for my DII. Well, the studs aren't available separately. If you want studs for the carrier, you have to buy a new carrier. If you need a wheel stud, you have to buy a hub assy!!! Can you beleive that? It's really getting rediculous. | ||
| Mark Albrecht (Markalbrecht) Member Username: Markalbrecht Post Number: 100 Registered: 11-2002 |
Greg: it's a DII. Darn. Maybe only two studs aren't so bad after all. | ||
| Brent (Silly_me) Member Username: Silly_me Post Number: 57 Registered: 07-2003 |
Tire guys scare the crap out of me. I had working on my audi and casually asked them what torque they will set the lug bolts on my audi at when they reattach it. He looked at me and said they usually use 110 ft-lb for everything. I smiled politley and asked him to please use 81 for my car. He walked over to the guy about to mount my wheels and whispered in his ear. He looked a bit disgruntled, set the impact wrench down and walked all the way to the other end of the shop to retrive what was quite possibly the only torque wrench they had. I watch them like a hawk. *shivers* Rotors are too expensive to warp by idiocy. | ||
| chris tolley (Rover4982) New Member Username: Rover4982 Post Number: 5 Registered: 08-2003 |
hey guys, just a suggestion, me and a buddy of mine snapped of a stud on his carrier and we found that going to lowes home improvement and getting a bolt with a big head on it and tack welding it from the OUTSIDE of the carrier is 10 x's stronger than the factory design(it sure wont snap off again) just a suggestion, its alot better than buying a new carier regards, chris | ||
| Al Oliveira (Offroaddisco) Senior Member Username: Offroaddisco Post Number: 1519 Registered: 04-2002 |
I don't know what's worse. Over torqued lugs or driving home with half of the lugs on one wheel almost undone. I found only one torqued about right. I'm just glad it was me driving and not the wife and kids. I don't think she would have taken out the torque wrench to check them and might have kept on driving like that. | ||
| Mark Albrecht (Markalbrecht) Member Username: Markalbrecht Post Number: 101 Registered: 11-2002 |
Brief update -- the wheel stud on the spare tire carrier (D II) is a 14 mm bolt approx. 40-45 mm long (approx. because mine broke off). I picked up a new hex head metric bolt at a local industrial fastener supply house (actually they only do will call orders for $50+ but I hit the sales manager on a nice day and he sized my stud and gave me a new one gratis). There are some internet bolt companies that carry them and people in the PNW could try Tacoma Screw (they always had the bolts I needed when I lived there). Hopefully I'll get it welded in this weekend. |
