My friend Scott drives a Buick station wagon, with aluminum wheels. He bought the small lugnuts cause he likes them better. I figured that was a mistake, and it was. They fused to the wheels. And being short, there is no way to get a good wrench on.
After about 20 hours of using a die grinder, he did manage to get them off, and replace the studs. Got the real lug nuts, the tall ones with the chrome cap.
Must have had an "air head" put them on, at one time. When we did the brake job a few weeks ago, one wheel needed a breaker bar and a lot of weight to get the lugs to loosen.
What's a good never sieze to put between steel lugs, and aluminum rims? I'd used white lithium grease spray, cause I had some. I suspect they were also over torqued.
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