What did you do to your GE fit today?
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Finally rotated my tires last night after work.
Way too much prep work. Had to keep my floor jack, two jack stands and various tools (still needed the jack that came with the car!) in my car all evening while doing my deliveries. I can't use my garage, so I had to use the public parking garage near work to get out of the snow. But didn't have time until after work. *bleh*
Hopefully, the tires wear down slowly in the rear. Rather replace them as a full set, than pairs.
Way too much prep work. Had to keep my floor jack, two jack stands and various tools (still needed the jack that came with the car!) in my car all evening while doing my deliveries. I can't use my garage, so I had to use the public parking garage near work to get out of the snow. But didn't have time until after work. *bleh*
Hopefully, the tires wear down slowly in the rear. Rather replace them as a full set, than pairs.
"Wrinkled?" No clearly the first picture shows his red emblem has a giant horizontal crack in it. The second is a brand new emblem.
Rotated my tires yesterday. This happened to one of my McGard locking lug nuts -
Seems clear that what happened is with this lug nut, the key used to turn it only grabs that very shallow pattern at the top of the nut. So when torquing that's the only part of the lug nut you're grabbing. The other 3 on each of my wheels are spline drive, so they're essentially security nuts too. The splines go the entire length of the nut though so when turning, the socket grabs the whole thing, not putting all the stress on just the end of the lug nut. Also it must have had a hairline crack because it's rusted all the way through. I'll be contacting them soon to see about just getting a replacement set of all spline drive nuts. This extra locking nut is unnecessary.
Rotated my tires yesterday. This happened to one of my McGard locking lug nuts -
Seems clear that what happened is with this lug nut, the key used to turn it only grabs that very shallow pattern at the top of the nut. So when torquing that's the only part of the lug nut you're grabbing. The other 3 on each of my wheels are spline drive, so they're essentially security nuts too. The splines go the entire length of the nut though so when turning, the socket grabs the whole thing, not putting all the stress on just the end of the lug nut. Also it must have had a hairline crack because it's rusted all the way through. I'll be contacting them soon to see about just getting a replacement set of all spline drive nuts. This extra locking nut is unnecessary.
Ye shall receive!
Hard to get a good pic in the garage
With flash, shutter and bracket is painted red. Can see it some with reflection
Hard to get a good pic in the garage
With flash, shutter and bracket is painted red. Can see it some with reflection
"Wrinkled?" No clearly the first picture shows his red emblem has a giant horizontal crack in it. The second is a brand new emblem.
Rotated my tires yesterday. This happened to one of my McGard locking lug nuts -
Seems clear that what happened is with this lug nut, the key used to turn it only grabs that very shallow pattern at the top of the nut. So when torquing that's the only part of the lug nut you're grabbing. The other 3 on each of my wheels are spline drive, so they're essentially security nuts too. The splines go the entire length of the nut though so when turning, the socket grabs the whole thing, not putting all the stress on just the end of the lug nut. Also it must have had a hairline crack because it's rusted all the way through. I'll be contacting them soon to see about just getting a replacement set of all spline drive nuts. This extra locking nut is unnecessary.
Rotated my tires yesterday. This happened to one of my McGard locking lug nuts -
Seems clear that what happened is with this lug nut, the key used to turn it only grabs that very shallow pattern at the top of the nut. So when torquing that's the only part of the lug nut you're grabbing. The other 3 on each of my wheels are spline drive, so they're essentially security nuts too. The splines go the entire length of the nut though so when turning, the socket grabs the whole thing, not putting all the stress on just the end of the lug nut. Also it must have had a hairline crack because it's rusted all the way through. I'll be contacting them soon to see about just getting a replacement set of all spline drive nuts. This extra locking nut is unnecessary.
