I purchased my Kyokugen lugnuts around 3 monthes ago, purchased because i had chrome lugnuts on my gunmetal rims and i didn't like that. i took off my rims around 2-3 in the 3 monthes i had them, they gave me no troublle what so ever. until the day i sold my rims 17inchers. the key was stripped, the weird part is the key stripped putting them on....so i bought another key that wasn't even the same at all and i was successful at taking almost all of them out except for. i went to 8 different shops in 626 area code and everyone said perez tires in la puente were the best at removing stripped nuts. so i went and they worked on my lug nut for 3 hours and not success. so the guy i sold my rims to told me to go to moreno valley. so i drive downt here and it turns out they have to chop off the studs so they do they took off 4 studs and replaced them to get the rims off. so we drive to the guys off having my chrome locks on. took off rim 1, rim 2, rim 3, and on rim 4 the very last lug nuts stripps but they were not kyokugen's they were just chromes. so drive back to the tire shop and they took another 2 hours to take it off. i had the worst luck on saturday. this all took around 11 hours of my time and cost me 100 bucks for labor for everything buying keys i have an extra new kyokugen key. please take them off before they strip. i thought they wouldn't because they seems so strong but nope, they do. its well worth the money buying quality lugnuts for example rays, spoon, or even any forged tuner lug thats better than kyokugens.

 

Amen!!! dont buy these POS lugs!! sorry you had to find out the hard way bro.

 

yea, man now im will to spend like 150 on some good lugnuts..

 

Kyokugen

 

ouch that sucks.

 

is gorrila okay?

 

Yep i bought them but i never put them on due to everyone's feedback on them.

 

um.... so gorilla sucks too?

btw my friend has one set that reads " for 6 lug 1/2" stud" does this work on integras?

 

I meant I purchased black Kyokugen lugs. Sorry for the confusion.

Gorillas are pretty good from what forums ive read.

 

what's the stud spec for the integra?

 

they K lugnuts arent as bad as you people think ive had it for over 2 years now.. the reason why they prolly are stripping on you people are becuz some1 used an air gun on them... tighten them by hand its the way ive done it for the psat 2 or more years.. i thikn its actually 3 years now

 

Kyokugens used to have a weaker key but they fixed the problem recently..

Just torque them down to about 70-75 by HAND.. you wont have a problem..

 

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Just torque them down to about 70-75 by HAND.. you wont have a problem..</TD></TR></TABLE>

Exactly. I used a torque wrench (which I use regardless of what nuts I'm tightening), and also used a small amount of anti-seize on the studs. I never had a single problem removing them and neither key nor nut ever showed any signs of damage. I wouldn't hesitate to use them again, or to recommend them to others. The stripping key was a problem with the earlier keys, and has since been remedied. I believe the company was even offering the new keys to those that owned the problematic older ones.

 

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Just torque them down to about 70-75 by HAND.. you wont have a problem..</TD></TR></TABLE>

Bingo. No problems here, and theyve come on and off tons of times.

 

Owned mine for over a year, no problems. Probably took my wheels off about 10 times.

 

i never used the airgun, their just POS lugnuts low quality no wonder i can get them for 30 brand new.