Contour Enthusiasts Group Archives Forums General Troubleshooting Wheel studs snapped

So i was driving along the other day and when i turned to the right at hwy speed i felt this terrible wobbling, so i got home and checked to make sure all the lugs were torqued correctly, and found that my left rear wheel was missing two lugs and the studs had snapped off! Has this happened to anyone and does anyone have any suggestions on how it might have happened?

sounds like someone had some super powers when they put those nuts on. as for the studs you can buy new ones and put them on your self I for some reason had one strip and I replaced it my self they cost me .75 cents each.

Yeah, studs are real cheap, sometimes they can be as expensive as a WHOLE DOLLAR! Just be glad you didn't have to do what I did to my girlfriend's Concorde. We had to *chizel* the damn lugs off because the shop she took it to (Monroe) put her lugs on with too much pressure. We had my 185lb dad jump once on the pry bar and they STILL wouldn't come loose.

Now I get to buy her a new stock rim :rolleyes:

Sounds like an tremendous over-torque or faulty, cheap, foreign made fasteners.
Otherwise, if you had only missing nuts, someone may have tried to steal your wheels.

I found tha with my Konig rims I had less than .250" of engagement between the stud and lugnut (used open nut to see this. I will be finding longer studs and replacing all of the rears first.....I am gonna check front later.