# Broken wheel lug - who is responsible? **URL:** \ **Category:** Maintenance/Repairs\ **Created:** [June 21, 2011, 2:05pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/broken-wheel-lug-who-is-responsible/65603 "2011-06-21T14:05:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Rod-Knox](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a183cd/32.png) [@Rod-Knox](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Rod-Knox)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2011, 12:48pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/broken-wheel-lug-who-is-responsible/65603/21 "2011-06-22T12:48:31Z")
Yes, if the stud broke as the nut was being removed it would seem that the damage was done when the wheel was installed and the nut over tightened at a previous service. Used properly an air impact can be used to remove and install lug nuts with no problems. Or apparently so. Neither myself nor an employee ever broken a lug stud in many years and more than half the business was fleet work. And we were doing 100 brake jobs each month. ---
**Author:** ![MikeInNH](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a587f6/32.png) [@MikeInNH](https://community.cartalk.com/u/MikeInNH)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2011, 4:52pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/broken-wheel-lug-who-is-responsible/65603/22 "2011-06-22T16:52:46Z")
I’ve had two broken studs in my almost 40 years of driving…One happened while I was driving (heard this clunk as I was driving and when I stopped I noticed one of the lugs was gone)…The second time was when I was trying to remove a wheel to do a brake job “SNAP”…Both times I just took the car back to the place that last pulled the wheel and they fixed it for free…no questions asked. Tire place I go to now Nashua Wholesale Tire they put the tires on with the air-gun just to get the lug-nuts snug…then they use a torque wrench. [Previous page](https://community.cartalk.com/t/broken-wheel-lug-who-is-responsible/65603.md?page=1)