This is an old thread, but I thought I would bring it back up. I replaced my 15 in. wheels and tires with 16 in. today, and I ran into an old problem. It seems like every time I pull my wheels to check something or do a grease job, when I go to put them back on, I have some bolts or lug nuts with bad threads. I have ended up replacing quite a few so far. Today when I was putting the new tires on, same thing, I had 3 bad lug nuts. I believe the problem is over torquing the lug nuts.
I've always torqued to 90# but I backed off to 85# today. I'm considering on backing off to 80#. I think that might be to much torque and it's pulling the threads.
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