My local tire shop is about a mile away. They have two guys reinstalling the wheels. The first guy tightens the lugs with his air wrench. The second guy follows him around with a torque wrench. The first guy tightens them to like 2 billion ft/lbs, the second guy turns the torque wrench until it clicks at 110 or whatever. I've never seen the torque wrench move, just click. I don't have enough self control to tell them in a helpful way what they are doing wrong. I am so much more relaxed when I have to remove the wheel at home and bring it in another car.

I go straight home and redo them every time. Luckily they have not warped any of my rotors.

 

I try pretty much without fail to always handle it myself from the start. It sucks sometimes arranging it but the pain up front saves more pain later. My worry is that all that over-tightening will stretch the wheel studs and also gouge the crap out of the lug mating surface of the wheel. Might be paranoid, dunno, just makes me feel better to handle it myself. And to that end I have probably dozens of pics of me loading wheels/tires into my various trucks over the years, headed to the tire shop, lol.. even heavy-assed 19.5's for the wrecker. F'in ball breakers at nearly 120 lb/ea tire/wheel assembly.



Bottom pic is 8 19.5 wheel/tire assemblies and 4 more bare wheels, hard to imagine but it's more than 1100 lbs total. Almost straining the credibility of my dropped C2500LD as a "shop truck"



Richard

 

Hahaha. My shop truck is an Integra hatchback

 

@someotherguy I like the old OBS Junk Yard you had!

 

Those were good times. Tough work and ridiculous long hours but good times regardless.

Richard