Just as the title says i was putting on some rims today and i guess i over tightened one of the lugs and all i heard was snap and my wrench flew down on the ground so one of my front wheel studs is broken off is it ok if i drive w/ 3 for a while is it safe? all the others are fine I'm most likely going to replace it in the morning but if not is it alright if i drive it w/o for now highway driving 75Mph ish its a 97 Civic LX

is it hard to replace the front stud? and how much will it roughly cost me for just one my wheel bearings are good still so im not going to mess with those till they go bad

 

there like 4-5 bucks from the dealer shouldnt be to hard to replace, ive driven like that before its not a big in my eyes anyway pretty sure im not the only one.

 

so you're saying its safe?

 

https://honda-tech.com/forums/showth...ght=wheel+stud

 

I personally would only drive it very slowly to a parts store or wherever you would get yours. I look at it this way, if it was safe to drive with only three honda wouldn't have bothered putting a fourth on there. You could drive it and it be fine or you could hit something in the road have the others shear off and do extensive damage. I had a car in my shop that this happened too last week and she tore into her rocker panel and ripped her front bumper cover slap off of her car.

 

I'll be installing the stud tomorrow i went to napa today and got one for 1.99 at honda they wanted to charge me 11 bucks

 

As long as the other 3 are at OEM spec you'l be fine..

It freaks some people out. I drove for almost a year on 3 and was just fine.

 

They are pretty cheap at the honda dealership, but 3 is fine for awhile.

 

yeah honda wanted 11 bucks i got them for cheap at napa I was going to put it on today but ill get around to it this weekend

 

lol i've got you beat with two wheels running 3 lug nuts for almost 2 years