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Any tips or tricks to get a striped lug nut off?

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  • Start date Start date Jan 11, 2011

Jaswir

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any tips??
 
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AngelaS

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This may work:

YouTube - Removing a stripped security wheelnut

Brute force rarely fails!
 

Kdubslugga

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Will it tighten at all? If so you could just tighten with a breaker bar til the Stud snaps.
 

ID89GT

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Maybe try using a bolt extractor kit, those things do wonders. But I don't know if they would have one that big

The tighten it till the stud breaks would probably be the easiest if you can tighten it still.
 

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I had this issue long time ago, what the tire shop did was took a socket and hammered it on the lug and was able to take it off. And they was not stripped at all
 

liljoe07

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Tire Shop has a special socket that will get it off. Its based off the same design as the Irwin Bolt-Grip extractors. They just put it on a Impact Gun in reverse, and it cinches down on the lugnut. They probably wont charge you a dime.
 
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worst comes to worst ive used a chissle and mini sledge.and managed to spin them off or even make them brake in half enough to pop it off without damageing the threads
 
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if they are the accorn style nuts you could always cut a slot into them. if you got one of those lug wrenches that has the flat point like a flat head screw driver at the end. that should work
 

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A Dremel with a Diamond cut off wheel.
 

Jaswir

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first time trying to take the rims off this car... ended up striping it! Never had a lug nut on so tight! Thanks for the input guys!
 
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