Help Broke Nuts
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What did you do to break the lug nut studs? He may be correct!
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my son and i were painting the rusted brake rotors silver and we were at the last wheel and his torque wrench broke - we twisted two studs off before we woke up it was the torque wrench had failed.
the studs look very flimsy anyway - they are not very big in diameter. i can not believe that we would have damaged the hub at all. the dealer didn't remove the broke studs so how would they know if another stud couldn't be replaced anyway? i think their just lazy and a new hub is a easy fix for them.
i am going to buy a couple of studs today and head over to my sons garage and we wil find out - i will take pictures.
the studs look very flimsy anyway - they are not very big in diameter. i can not believe that we would have damaged the hub at all. the dealer didn't remove the broke studs so how would they know if another stud couldn't be replaced anyway? i think their just lazy and a new hub is a easy fix for them.
i am going to buy a couple of studs today and head over to my sons garage and we wil find out - i will take pictures.
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It would appear that the hub is an assembly with an internet price of $200.00 plus for an OES hub.
I could easily see the jag price for the part plus labor reaching $600.00. I have a call into the parts counter at Jag in Kentucky to inquire about studs. I'll let you know what they say.
Just looking at the picture of the hub I would guess that the hub has to come off to put in the stud anyway.
I hope that wrench is now a piece of yard art!
I could easily see the jag price for the part plus labor reaching $600.00. I have a call into the parts counter at Jag in Kentucky to inquire about studs. I'll let you know what they say.
Just looking at the picture of the hub I would guess that the hub has to come off to put in the stud anyway.
I hope that wrench is now a piece of yard art!
Last edited by daddyo007; 09-24-2009 at 09:49 AM.
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Update - we have the two broken lugs fixed! My son and I just jerked the wheel off and I took a hammer and whacked the two broke studs back and replaced with some pep boys studs that cost a whopping 2.50 us each. the hard part was getting the brakes back on but once we did everything is good.
i can not believe the dealer would try and rip me like this on a new car. if we had proper tools we could have done this in one hour easy as is it took us 3 hours but most of that was running back and forth to pep boys supply.
the whole reason we broke the studs in the first place was to paint the rusty rotors which my car had so i could attend a car show this weekend and not be embarrassed that jag sold me a car with rusty rotors. the dealer should have fixed this for me like i asked them to when i bought the car.
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i can not believe the dealer would try and rip me like this on a new car. if we had proper tools we could have done this in one hour easy as is it took us 3 hours but most of that was running back and forth to pep boys supply.
the whole reason we broke the studs in the first place was to paint the rusty rotors which my car had so i could attend a car show this weekend and not be embarrassed that jag sold me a car with rusty rotors. the dealer should have fixed this for me like i asked them to when i bought the car.
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yep got all my nuts back in perfect shape. lol
my some went to get the studs and he said the store just had a big bucket of them so he grabbed two that matched and that was that. they were very exact - my son is a big car freak he has a corvette c6 z06 and used to restore mustangs etc. so he really knows his stuff. i am really glad otherwise i would have probably been out 1000. bucks at the dealer.
ps my wife says thats what i get for having a lambo. but what they dont know is i have a lambo cause im frugal as hell. reason i moved on buying the xkr was it was 30k off sticker, so had to get it. i love the car too!
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Glad you got your nuts back in shape and didn't have to get the whole shaft from your dealer!!
I know there are some honest and reliable dealers out there somewhere, but when your local Jaguar dealer sells their parts over the counter at 3 times the suggested retail price, it has to make you wonder about their whole operation!!
I know there are some honest and reliable dealers out there somewhere, but when your local Jaguar dealer sells their parts over the counter at 3 times the suggested retail price, it has to make you wonder about their whole operation!!
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