Toyota GR86, 86, FR-S and Subaru BRZ Forum & Owners Community - FT86CLUB

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Originally Posted by wparsons (Post 3226225)

Locks are only going to stop neighbourhood teenagers from stealing your wheels, not someone serious. Anyone can buy the sockets to remove locking nuts:

https://www.amazon.com/Ken-Tool-3017...=fsclp_pl_dp_3

If a pro wants your wheels, they are going to flatbed your entire car and there is nothing you can do. You only want to stop the morons and imbeciles, or the pros that are looking for a fast score and don't have access to a flatbed.

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Originally Posted by dostoyevsky (Post 3226407)

I would not use OEM, recently I've found the OEM lugs are the reason my fucking studs keep breaking.

I always hand tighten and use a torque wrench

The OEM studs are notoriously crappy. You should go aftermarket if you've ever had an issue.

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Originally Posted by Impureclient (Post 3226505)

Or just a regular magnet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eeDBpKyl8i0

Any wheel lock can be defeated eventually. If a thief knows your wheels are expensive and wants them, they ARE getting them off.
I think getting multiple sets of different kinds of "locking" nuts would give them the most trouble to waste their time though.

And you are never going to stop a pro. These are not for them, they are for the people looking for an easy score. If a pro wants your car its gone on a flatbed and vanishes forever.

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Originally Posted by mav1178 (Post 3226652)

Probably user error.

Considering the hundreds of thousands of Subarus out on the road with the same lug nuts you have, you'd think they break more often...

I've never had any issue with any type of OE stud/lug nut, unless I contaminated the threads somehow.

And I've owned somewhere around 150 sets of wheels across 15 cars.

-alex

Subaru studs are notoriously soft though. There are people that track there cars once and have had them break when they try and change their wheels back to street ones. Lots of people change subaru studs out first thing if they have to do any number of wheel changes.