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Why do I feel like there is a lot more to the story...?
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I used a speed handle to drive the lugs and a torque wrench to finish, got chewed out. Simple as that, I disagreed with the manager but was shut down immediately by her.
That's all that happened.
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Chaulk it up to experience and move on.
Also, wear those ear plugs in noisy environments. I've been working in paper mills for 30+ years and can still hear because I make a point to keep plugs in anytime I'm in a noisy environment.
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I was told to use a torque wrench repeatedly at Mercedes. The foreman threatened to write me up if I didn’t. I said to him, No, I know what I’m doing. If a wheel falls off and it was because I didn’t tighten the wheel enough I’ll eat the bill out of my check for damages. He said OK, fair enough. Never had a wheel fall off. Much faster that way then using a speed handle and torque wrench. Time is money. Remember that.
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Never stripped one out. Once it’s tightened down the impact it’s them 3 clicks and it’s done. But I see your thought process and know exactly how easy it could be overtigbtened.
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I see this done at tire shops all the time, and I have never seen the guy tighten a lug up to the setting on the torque wrench. It always clicks right away (tighter than the setting). If I had to use the factory lug wrench to change a wheel on the side of the road, I doubt that the lug wrench would work (not enough leverage to break them loose). If the tire guys would idle the impact so the lugs are a little more than hand tight, then the torque wrench will bring them to the PROPER torque, and no more. But again, they don't do it that way.
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I try to always have something a lot stronger in the trunk than the factory lug nut wrench. Even if is just a piece of pipe to go over it. One seldom has flats today but those lug nuts can be difficult. Most places still hammer them in with air guns.
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Yep, chain tire shop here that offers free rotations ever 4k over tightened mine. Flat at night back country road 7 miles from home, bent the lug wrench trying to change the tire, never broke loose, walked half way home before getting a ride from a passer by. I also alway flip the guy doing the service a fin, thought they would be a little more respective to the specs and not just shove you out the door as quickly as possible.
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FWIW, tire service guys don't get much pay, often they're paid minimum wage so they don't have any incentive to do anything correctly .
Apart from making the wheel lugs impossible to loosen on the road, over torquing almost always warps the brake drum or disc, a thing they clearly don't care about as no delicacy with the chatter gun is equal to properly hand torquing . Always stand there as they're tightening the lugs or you'll be sorry later .
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This is the easiest way to do it right. No guessing here, or changing tools. However, I have not seen too many shops use these. I did see a rack of torque sticks in one shop, but they looked like they did not get used (full of dust).
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If I had zapped it with a gun I would have been FUC*ED!!!! Another plus side is my lug nuts are nut worn down or deformed by repeated use of an impact. Back on topic, it's good you have a flexible foreman, I would of got sent home to never come back if I did what you did lol.
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