My granddaughter had a flat tire while driving our 2014 Ford Focus SE. She said the lug wrench wouldn’t fit the lugs. I went to the car and ,sure enough, the lugs were too big for the factory installed lug wrench. I took the wrench to the Ford dealer which was 4/10th of a mile away. The service ad…

I think you have swollen lug nuts. Not just Ford has the problem but I beleive some Ford owners have banded for a class action lawsuit. Personally, I changed mine to one piece solid lug nuts. Life is too short to worry about something so trivial.

It’s not an uncommon problem. I seem to see it more often on Chrysler products, but any make car that uses chrome caps over regular lug nuts can have this happen. I see it enough that I own sockets in “half sizes”, like 19.5 mm, 21.5 mm, etc. By the way, I had this problem on the first car i ever o…

We in the repair business call these lug nuts with condoms. What happened is, you went to the Ford dealer and had the lug nuts replaced. So what kind of lug nuts do you think they installed on the car? The same lug nuts that came on the car! OEM! So now, you still have lug nuts with condoms. The…

[image] asemaster: any make car that uses chrome caps over regular lug nuts Why would a lug nut have a chrome cap? [image] Tester: We in the repair business call these lug nuts with condoms… recommends installing solid lug nuts. I know I would. You’re against safe wrenching? When I …

[image] RandomTroll: Why would a lug nut have a chrome cap? Cosmetic look and lower cost .

Yes, those “capped” lug nuts are famous for swelling in the manner described here. The solution is to buy a set of lug nuts that do NOT have that dress up cap on them. Personally, I was never a fan of the capped style for several reasons, swelling being just one of those reasons. There are non ca…

A year or so ago, I chose to have all of the lug nuts on my 2009 Dodge changed for this exact reason. Some of them would just “spin” when I would try to remove them. The mechanic told me basically just what you all are saying, and recommended replacing all of them. The thought occurred to me, if I h…

GM used chrome covers. Had a 70 Cutlass, with the cover was SAE, w/o cover, seemed to be metric. Had them all replaced.

[image] RandomTroll: Why would a lug nut have a chrome cap? Not chrome, stainless steel. SS won’t rust so it looks pretty for exposed lug nuts. The cap won’t rust, but the nut underneath will, hence the swollen nuts. One piece chrome plated steel lug nuts are a better solution but not a perf…

Ford Focus swollen lug nuts

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sgtrock21 January 13, 2019, 7:19am 7

Yes. It sounds painful.

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