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First, invest in a torque wrench if you plan on taking off your wheels. The stock wheel studs aren't the greatest. From what you've experienced, it sounds like one of your lug nuts was over-torqued which caused it to strip and why you had so much trouble getting it off. The damage was already done when it was over-torqued, breaking it off was just the result of that. A breaker bar would have given you the same result. I had the same happen on a few of mine after a shop rotated my tires. I went ahead and replaced ALL of my studs, got new lug nuts, and won't let a shop near my wheels anymore. Problem solved! Torque for the lug nuts is 89 ft.-lbs., btw.
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