i have the lug nuts on my car... and the adapter *key* that was given to me with it does not fit as well as it should on the lugs... so when i try to take off the lugs it's kinda stripping... * anything i can do?? * itz a Heptagon key thing!!

Will-
help!!!

 

TIP: Be very careful next time you put these lugs on your car, when you overtighten them they will seize up on you !!!

There has been many posts on this issue with these lugs, everyone is stripping them also like you....

You might have to cut them using a Dremel or Cut-off tool.

 

no more than 80ft/lbs

 

so wat do i have to do now???? anyone?? anyone??

Will-

 

I have the same thing on my car and it does the same thing. It is as if the key was made of some sort of weak metal that easily rounds out. I'm not real worried about the problem. And to the person who said tighten only 80 ft-lbs, wrong... read the back side of the instructions it says 88-125 ft-lbs torque. Another problem people are having with these lug nuts is they keep coming loose. I just check mine once a week to make sure they are still tight. Other than that, my only other advise is not to constantly take on and off your tires. But seriously I think they were designed to go hand and hand with the extended lugs.

 

when my friend lost my wheel lock key, i busted out numberous 19mm sockets and hammered them onto the lug lock thingamubober, and just unbolted them.

 

or with a dremel you could cut a flat spot on each side to use vice grips and a crescent wrench then on the vice grip handle.
good luck chum

 

SO i guess you can say that getting these lugnuts should be out of the question?

 

ok, i'm screwed!!!!! nothing worked so far to take it out.... i think i have to pound a socket into it and try to put it out from that... anyone have any other suggestions??? let me know!!!! thanx guys

Wil-

 

its not 88-125ftlbs
thats Newton metres.. its about 80ftlbs max
i always use a torque wrench and i have taken the nuts off and put them on more then 10times already.. not once a problem..
if all else fails.. take air chisel/hammer and bang it off..
thats what many dealerships do to locknuts.. two or three thwaps and it breaks off


[Modified by ncrx1, 9:33 PM 1/23/2002]

 

shouldnt it be torqued to 75ftlb anyway?
thats what mine are at