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last week i had some bad luck, battery died and found my tire had a screw as wrecker picked it up

after i replaced the batter, I put on the spare not paying any attention to how deep or how much my tire iron went over the lug nuts - it went over good enough to break them loose and tighten....


Got the tire plugged and two days later the tire is flat again.

This time, when i went to change it, i really noticed that the tire iron would not fit over the lug nuts, and that id probably strip them if i tried. Now i can't imagine i did the first change like this without noticing. Which makes me wonder, did the tire place put on the wrong lug nuts.

So i called them, they let me borrow a 4 part tire iron. Now the biggest setting on that tire iron would only still go about half way deep on my lug nuts.

All my other tires i can put my original iron on all the way on??

My question is - did the lug nuts expand since the tire was completely flat; like it might have tilted and applied enough pressure to swell the lug nuts....

Do lug nuts change size...is it more likely they put the wrong ones back on in a rush

I still see the hole where the screw was; and have never had a patch not hold before - did this place just suck -
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sorry for the long winded background - the short version is - will lug nuts expand or change size on there own if you have a flat and let them sit long enough?

 

They probably used an impact on your lugs. If they use one that's just a little too big it will deform the lugs and cause the proper socket not to fit.
As for the leak, you could have more then one.

 

Ain't sposed to use an impact on aluminum lug nuts... but they all do anyway...

 

There was just a thread earlier this week about lug nuts bulging?

https://dodgeforum.com/forum/3rd-gen...ts-bulged.html

 

Thx fellas - after reviewing the impact wrench details, i'm confident that's what those dopes did -

oh well - least i can replace them pretty cheap -

I'll probably keep their 4-way iron just to be a d1ck. I don't really want them doing any more work on my truck-

i think the plug failed, i can see the original hole pretty clear (but would have to air and soap it up to confirm)