Not sure how to handle this.

Get yourself a 3/4" socket set with a breaker bar and change it yourself. I did this with our trailer. Those lug nuts are only supposed to be tightened to something like 50 foot pounds so they are easy to take off. Get a hefty bottle jack though also.

 

you have a point there

 

lol. 50 ft pounds, you need to recheck specs , you are off quite a bit.

 

Even a Subaru light duty Auto has a torque spec of 65FT lbs. I thank god this guy is a driver and not a mechanic.

 

LOL I am missing a digit... LOL should be 450 or so. Typing is not a specialty... and apparently neither is proof reading....

You guys must b e getting pretty thin jumping to conclusions like you do... LOL

Still easy to change one of them though.

 

Although that may be their torque spec i can guarantee you the majority of them are just shot on with a gun and never given a second thought. These 1" drive guns are normally putting out 1000 ft/lbs or more so you better have one hell of a breaker bar to get em off. I would recommend just getting an 1" drive airgun yourself for a couple hundred bucks and then if your a real boy scout you can get a torque wrench capable of going up to the 500 ft lbs or so required, but they are normally in the $500-1000 range or so for the ones I've seen. I spent over 2 years working at Goodyear and while i was adamant about always setting each lug nut to the proper torque spec my colleagues generally just shot them on with a gun and I never heard of a wheel falling off as an result. You do risk stretching/breaking the studs as well as a host of other issues, but for a roadside repair i wouldn't sweat it. You can take it to a shop and pay them a couple bucks to borrow their torque wrench later on if you deem it necessary.

 

i don't think then lug studs get stretched out too much to even matter if at all.

cars are much much thinner then trucks. and they survive throughout the life of the vehicle. and i don't think they're as high strength as trucks

 

Go buy 4 Yokos from your regular dealer and put the three remaining "good" Chinese tires on Craigslist. Or make four tire swings for the kids. Cut your losses and put it behind you, never to do again.