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

 

I think he meant 450 lbs

 

Anyway... Stopped at 3 more Loves. They all refused to warranty the tire. Said it looked like I ran over something. I have to admit... looking at it I would asume the same. But I didnt fall off the peanut wagon yesterday. I know what the tire looked like during my pre-trip and how it looked 150 mi later at a rest area that had no curbs to clip.

I didnt want to risk DOT seeing the tire so I went and bought another tire. Put defective tire under my trailer. Sent my wife pictures and the names of all the managers I spoke with.

The whole ordeal cost me approx 10 hrs of wasted time all together. With my short temper its not a good idea for me to call Loves corp office. I've been stewing and wishing terrible things on these folks last 3 days... so gonna let the boss handle it. Hopefully she can make some headway. If not.. chalk it up as lesson learned and move on.

Hurst

 

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.