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Originally Posted by Tcoat
If you are able to over torque lug nuts enough to stretch the stud and weaken the hardened steel using a proper lug wrench and just your arms you need to join the Avengers or XMen. I don't care how strong you think you are there is not a hope in hell you are going to do it.
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I'm not sure that's true. When I torque mine to 89 ft lbs with my torque wrench, I'm certainly not at the limit of my strength, and I'm not all that strong. I was actually pretty surprised how little effort it took to get them to the proper torque. I couldn't snap a stud the first time the rims were pulled off, but if I were swapping tires frequently I could likely do some cumulative damage. As has been noted, people
do have issues with overtightening.
Furthermore, not everyone uses a "proper lug wrench." A few people in this thread have talked about using impact wrenches. Some of them may have been lucky because they weren't using a wrench with a lot of power. Additionally, if you use a breaker bar to get the lugs off (I usually do), it's quite tempting to use it to tighten them also if someone on the internet told you that you can't overtighten a lug nut and you believed it.
On a different note...
This is unrelated (the guy used the wrong lug nuts), but I keep thinking of it when reading this thread:
[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhI3DJdjSYQ"]RX7 wheels fall off - YouTube[/ame]