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I disagree with the "user error" thing.
Because this is the only car I have ever had where I broke a stud by hand. And I have had a lot of cars. I always screw the nuts on and off by hand so as not to cross thread them. A couple years ago a stud just snapped off when I removed it. I think it was one of the very few times I brought the car to the tire place to have them replaced. So they were probably over torqued. I usually remove the wheels and bring them with the new tires to be replaced. It was easy enough to replace the stud but WTF?
I just had my tires changed the other day and I noticed when I was putting the wheels back on the car, the nuts were really "crunchy" going on the studs. I should have anti-seized them but it was hot as hell out and sweat was in my eyes.
They'll probably snap next time I remove them.
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