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Old 02-25-2005, 03:47 PM   #11
Overdrive
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Originally Posted by barn9
I'd say the boys at Midas got a little carried away with their impact gun, and they need to get their checkbook out.
I agree with this. They definately over torqued the lugs (stretches and cracks the lugs until they suddenly fail when in use). I've seen this happen before. I don't let anybody go near my lug nuts if they aren't using a torque wrench to tighten.
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