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Texas_Ace · 06-21-2008, 01:46 PM

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Originally Posted by kmcaprice14

Old wives tale. I probably have gone through more sets of wheels and tires than most anyone on this forum (for the cars I've had) and I've always just torqued those badboys down as much as I could without extending the lug wrench. I have NEVER had a problem (on track cars or otherwise), and even have a hard time imagining exactly how a man could apply torque to the level that could cause warping (assuming the wheels are hubcentric). I take my time with plenty of stuff, but the day I take a torque wrench to my wheels is the day I go to the therapist and get some meds for OCD.

I'm half kidding here, it just doesn't seem like a big deal to me as long as you torque them enough. But to each his own, why you are at it, you better torque your license plate to spec!

And that is the case i have done for year on my cars as well. But when I was having warping issues on one of my cars all the time i then tried tourqing the lugs and never had to get rotors again (this is after 3 sets).

So i can safely say that i was warping the rotors. since then i use a tourqe wrench whenever i have it nearby, the rest of the time i know about how much force it is and go to that.

But the biggest reason i tourqe them is that once back when i used to just tighten them as hard as i could. My mom was driving the car once and got a flat. no matter what she did could not get the lugs off. Eventually we found out about it (this is after here being stuck there for over an hour). Even when i got there i could not get them off, i had to use a big cheater bar to get them off. The wheel had been on the car for a long time and they had seized.

Since then i always tourqe them to make sure that the lugs can be removed on the side of the road by a lady should it need to be.