Wow, 150 Ft lbs of wheel lug nut torque!

[pt19713]

Milwaukee Stubby is a good investment, or a big breaker bar, in addition to the torque wrench. The Stubby will break those lugs loose.

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[HuntingPudel]

Sad thing is that I've NEVER seen a tire shop use a torque wrench.

From what I have observed, most don’t. I have seen lots of shops just use a deep socket on an impact gun. Funny thing is, I got a puncture recently on a bad place in one of the Fusion Energi’s tires. Bought a used tire at a hole in the wall shop and he used an impact to remove the wheel but hand tools and a torque wrench to reinstall. Of course, I re-torqued with my recently calibrated wrench.

I had no idea so much. My Proto torque wrench stops at 150 ft lbs. I may have to buy a bigger one.

Good thing I have two 1/2” Protos. The small one from the 1980s goes up to 150 and is damn-near perfect every time I get it calibrated. The bigger one is much newer and goes to 250. It was within spec when it was last calibrated.

 

[All Hat No Cattle]

Sad thing is that I've NEVER seen a tire shop use a torque wrench.

LOL, you are going to the wrong tire shops.

My Discount Tire has a huge picture window from the waiting room to the shop floor.

You can watch the tech balance and torque your wheels, and they do change the settings on the wrench.

The other one is Costco Tire, they balance, torque, and put in nitrogen, whether you like it or not.

BTW, here are the torque specs, for my '17 Ford Edge. Explain that to me, please. For 5 studs.

 

[Scooby24]

Same experience with Discount Tire. Local shop I use knows me by name, taken great care of me and used a nylon sleeved socket to avoid wheel damage as well as torque bars on an impact with a final tightening by hand via torque wrench.

I know that's not the case for most places though. I do trust discount though. They seem to train their folks well.

 

[Benjamin Kegele]

The metal part just on the inside of the plastic rocker panel moulding.

THANK YOU!!!!

 

[RobertG]

Can anyone confirm what is the bolt size for the Mach E wheel studs? Is it M14 x 1.5?

 

[Nklem]

Can anyone confirm what is the bolt size for the Mach E wheel studs? Is it M14 x 1.5?

Yes.

 

[Nklem]

Yes.

I went with 1.5” deep lugs.

 

[RobertG]

Yes.

Thank you!

 

[Guy]

Well they were not torqued 150 ft-lbs from the factory or my torque wrench is wrong. Starting at 100 ft-lbs I would try to tighten the lug nuts. It did click before anything moved. Tested at 105, then 110 by 5 ft-lbs increments. Then at 130 ft-lbs the lug nut would move before the torque wrench would click. Tried the 130 setting on a number of lug nuts, and they would all move slightly before the torque wrench clicked. This is telling me they were torqued 125 from the factory; or I have a bad torque wrench..

 

[Fat Mach]

Sad thing is that I've NEVER seen a tire shop use a torque wrench.

Both my go-to performance place, Custom Alignment for the Shelby, and my budget place, Advanced Wheel use a torque wrench to do the final tightening. For a nice car, it's worth it to go to someone competent.

 

[OttawaGuy]

Word of advice


I received my winter wheels today and wanted to check the fit and clearance...

Jacked up the front, pulled the bar from my F150 given the MME has no Jack or bar!!!

And omg that didn't feel like 150lbft at all.... Seems like the dealer service shop didn't check the torque on the nuts when they prepared my car!!!

Only hadve about 2700km on it but still .. That could have been dangerous


Check your lug nuts... Just in case



I'll give them a call tomorrow just to let them know to check correctly

 

[hybrid2bev]

Well they were not torqued 150 ft-lbs from the factory or my torque wrench is wrong. Starting at 100 ft-lbs I would try to tighten the lug nuts. It did click before anything moved. Tested at 105, then 110 by 5 ft-lbs increments. Then at 130 ft-lbs the lug nut would move before the torque wrench would click. Tried the 130 setting on a number of lug nuts, and they would all move slightly before the torque wrench clicked. This is telling me they were torqued 125 from the factory; or I have a bad torque wrench..

Mine too. So my 250ftlb torque wrench finally arrived. What’s funny is that the one wheel that I had professionally patched a few weeks ago when it picked up a screw… that wheel was almost to spec. ALL of the other lugs needed 1/8 to 1/4 turn to spec of 150 ftlbs.

 

[jgcom]

My car, too. My dealer didn't have much time between the truck arriving and my driving off, so it makes sense that they wouldn't have fussed with re-setting lugnut torques.

My torque wrench has been well cared for but not recently calibrated. I certainly got motion while torqueing up to 130 ft-lb on every wheel, nearly every nut. I'll let it sit overnight before going further.

This is the kind of thing that a forum is great for. Not arguing over opinions, but comparing notes on things that have physical units.

 

[Trick.Mach-E]

Any particular brand of lug nut to use with the Mach-E? I have a set of Gorilla lug nuts for my Raptor and you can torque those bad boys to 150 all day long.

I'm not seeing anything Mach-E just yet...

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