Broken Lug Bolts on 1999 E320 Station Wagon - PeachParts Mercedes-Benz Forum

Gilly · #1 10-07-2008, 04:54 AM

riiiiight, but you need to grasp the fact that EVEN though it's a common problem, if the bolts were being installed properly, they wouldn't get stuck on like that. Sort of like "whoever" in this country outlawed Lawn Darts (Jarts). If people wouldn't have tossed them straight up into the air and (and come straight down onto their heads) they would hae been perfectly safe. It's the guys who just HAD to hammer the things on with their 500ft/lb impact gun that ruined it for everybody. Now you have to replace them with the stubby ones and it looks like "dirt".
Gilly

RichardM98 · #2 10-07-2008, 10:20 AM

I agree with Gilly.

If you are checking your brakes per Service Schedule A and rotating your tires and using proper torque, you won't have seized lug bolts. Seizing comes from over-tightening and/or being left in place too long.

Strife · #3 10-07-2008, 09:17 PM

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Originally Posted by Gilly

riiiiight, but you need to grasp the fact that EVEN though it's a common problem, if the bolts were being installed properly, they wouldn't get stuck on like that. Sort of like "whoever" in this country outlawed Lawn Darts (Jarts). If people wouldn't have tossed them straight up into the air and (and come straight down onto their heads) they would hae been perfectly safe. It's the guys who just HAD to hammer the things on with their 500ft/lb impact gun that ruined it for everybody. Now you have to replace them with the stubby ones and it looks like "dirt".
Gilly

I agree with this - as long as you take em off and put em back on (torqued properly) a few times a year, I can't see how they could get stuck. If you do any maintenance, this should just happen as the course of maintenance - for example, in changing the brake fluid/inspecting the brakes.