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Originally Posted by ZDan
Yeah, factory wheel studs *and* nuts are horrifically bad. They *will* bugger up and ruin your day. On the old car ('17) I had gone to ARP studs but stupidly kept using the factory nuts. Sure enough they went bad and almost ruined an event at Watkins Glen! Factory studs and nuts are really really REALLY bad. I go with new Gorilla aluminum nuts every season, figure the nuts will strip before the studs which is infinitely preferable...
Long/short: yeah, the factory studs are terrible. But also the factory nuts are equally terrible and can ruin your day!
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Have you had any issues with your Gorilla nuts and ARP studs?
Mine threaded on perfectly when the nuts were new. Felt great.
After about 10 times on/off, one of the Gorilla lugs themselves started getting buggered up. I tried it on another stud and it was that lug nut. Even threaded it on the old OEM studs and it was really tight too.
Ordered a new set since they're only $30. Same deal. Now 25% of them are buggered up. Not the studs, but the lug nuts. It's like every year I need to get a new set.
Thinking about moving to something else. It's crazy the lug nuts themselves keep getting buggered and hard to turn. It's never the stud now.
