Another Reason To Stay Away From Car Dealers

[live bait]

My Brides' car is a Hyundai SantaFe, still under warranty so I bring it back to the dealer for State inspection, while it's in lets rotate the tires, OK all is good. Fast forward a couple of months later, front tire picked up a screw & almost flat, lucky I discover it at home in the driveway, no problem I'll take the tire off & I can put a plug in it. Now I realize at the dealer they use an air gun on the lug nuts, I also realize I'm no spring chicken any longer, but I had to put a pipe on a 18" breaker bar to loosen the lug nuts, If I had to change a flat on the road, would have had to call for service. Went around & all wheels were the same, checked the book & torqued the lug nuts to the required 80ft lbs. That's the end of my rant.

 

[OVERBORED]

So true!

Twice had to replace the lug on a wheel on wife's Subaru because it was stripped.

Only serviced the vehicle at dealer!

 

[Jaws1948]

I had that problem with the oil plug. Dealer didn't put on a crush gasket and then over-tightened it. I needed an impact wrench to get it loose. Luckily nothing was stripped.