[s-cars] Stripped wheel bolt

[JC]

Not sure if I posted about it here but my wife's A3 last fall turned out 
to have the bolts so super-mega-overtorqued by a DEALER that I broke a 
craftsman breaker bar trying to get them off, and not even the hideously 
hack "floor jack under the lug wrench" trick worked. I could literally 
have lifted the car via the lug wrench the bolts were so tight.  Had to 
take it to a shop with bigger gorillas and impact wrenches than I could 
find around the house.

Appalling and makes you wonder what other standards of workmanship 
prevail at the dealer these days.

On 3/27/2012 7:40 AM, Tom Green wrote:
> I think those tire shops that have the practice of "if I tighten these 
> bolts/nuts tight enough, she'll have to call me to change a flat tire" 
> have found they all have AAA anyway.   Most on this list recognize 
> that the aging UrS vehicles require extra care even for the routine 
> items.
>