winters are on and why it took me 2 days

[boneca]

Finally got the winter set on today after fighting stacked bolt for 2 days, it took me 3 trips to AutoZone and broken adapter to get it done.

[Alpin3_F30]

note to self. never go to AutoZone...

[Flying Ace]

Wow, that shit is mangled. Over tightened bolt?

What was the trick? I'm surprised the tire shop couldn't do it, or you had separate set of winters premounted?

[boneca]

Originally Posted by Flying Ace

Wow, that shit is mangled. Over tightened bolt?

What was the trick? I'm surprised the tire shop couldn't do it, or you had separate set of winters premounted?

Yes, exactly over tightened bolt it was! I did have a full set of winter wheels, tires, tpms ready to go, so I didn't need to go to the shop to do it for me.

The trick was to find a right socket (the one that would get in to the metal deep and get a good grip on it) it was already 16mm at the time I got the socket I tried different types of socket and none of them worked except the last one, I can get details on that socket if u interested.

Good that I did it that day as we had quite a bit of snow in a last couple of days. I wasn't able to drive much though as I brought my car to take a look at why my washers doesn't spray water to front and rear windows and my car is in the shop for last 2 days, they had to take passenger side fender out to get to the motors and reservoir, apparently 2 out of 3 motors has been damaged (using bad water by previous owner) I had no idea that fixing sprayers will be such a big job!

[Flying Ace]

Originally Posted by boneca

Yes, exactly over tightened bolt it was! I did have a full set of winter wheels, tires, tpms ready to go, so I didn't need to go to the shop to do it for me.

The trick was to find a right socket (the one that would get in to the metal deep and get a good grip on it) it was already 16mm at the time I got the socket I tried different types of socket and none of them worked except the last one, I can get details on that socket if u interested.

Good that I did it that day as we had quite a bit of snow in a last couple of days. I wasn't able to drive much though as I brought my car to take a look at why my washers doesn't spray water to front and rear windows and my car is in the shop for last 2 days, they had to take passenger side fender out to get to the motors and reservoir, apparently 2 out of 3 motors has been damaged (using bad water by previous owner) I had no idea that fixing sprayers will be such a big job!

good job, that is my biggest fear too. I've once had a stripped and broken wheel bolt on a past car while changing brakes.. Broke it at 4pm on a Saturday, barely able to limp it to a tire shop to have to drill that shit out before closing for the weekend. The thread doesn't look stripped at least. Which shop monkey overtightened your wheels?