Context for the inexperienced: these are cone seat GM lugnuts, the cone portion is supposed to face IN towards the wheel as they are self centering, not OUT... guy didn't know wtf he was doin
this post was submitted on 10 Jun 2024
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Jesus that’s bad.
Honestly, though, if you don’t grow up working on cars seemingly obvious things aren’t obvious. A part of me wants to applaud him for learning to work on his car himself.
I am kinda shocked that wheel wasn’t vibrating like crazy driving down the highway though.
It did shimmy slightly around 60, but this is unrelated to that (flat spotted tires are obvious).
I do admire that he at least did the work, but a visual inspection should make it clear there's a cone on the wheel too... or maybe a quick Googl, or take a look at it before you pull the nuts off. Idk. I'll monkey mechanic a lot of things, but I take wheel/brake/suspension related work VERY seriously and will follow factory torque and procedure religiously, it disappoints me when other people don't do the same because if this were to wear thru and snap a stud or three, it could kill some people.
Yeah I agree with all of that.
One of my pet peeves is giving safety critical items like this a couple gut-feel ugga duggas instead of following the right procedures. I recently had a body shop destroy half a dozen studs on my car zipping them on with air tools.
It’s crazy how much we have normalized half-assed wheel installations.