The Biggest Issue With Every Ford Vehicle | Damaged Lug Nuts

Those lug nuts will swell over time on wheels that have never been removed. Nuts that have never had a socket put on them for any reason. I believe they swell due to water getting in them and freezing or corrosion under the cover causing them to swell. In my opinion the sockets used to remove them are not the problem!! These nuts will fail regardless of the quality of the tools used!

Truth! Excellent video. Another cause that ruins Ford lugs is the use of impact wrenches. Did my own brakes and tire rotations and still had the original lugs when I traded my 2013. Why? Because I used a breaker bar and torque wrench, no impact gun.

Hello! I think you do a great job at explaining this issue! The fact that you are a Ford master tech makes this easy. With your permission, I would like to post a link to this video at the service counter of our shop. We are a tire shop here in a Sam's Club in Clarksville, TN. Thanks for the video brother!

Problem #1 Ford two piece lugs are more easily beat up/deformed than a one piece lug is. Suggest go with Mcgard 64073 Lugs

I've owned two Ford Fusions with the same goofy 2-piece lug nuts with the soft aluminum cap. The cap was more for cosmetic reasons. There are just way too many occurrences of this issue. Its not caused by "bad" or "cheap" sockets that are being used, its a bad lug nut design plan and simple. One piece lug nuts are the only solution.

100% agree. Good video and good info. The term "swollen" is a bit misleading but that is how all of the shops seem to refer to them. They aren't really swollen so much as they are deformed from being beaten on by impact wrenches (yes, with bad or worn sockets, or just impact guns set WAY too high on psi) and they have simply separated from the core. Once that separation starts - it goes down hill quickly. I got stung by them and fortunately I was in my own garage where I could deal with it and not stranded on the side of the road with a flat tire that I couldn't remove.

Agreed. All those lug nuts swell and corrode over time, ALL. Rotating tires or not. I know from experience. Solid one piece is the way to go. Make sure the one piece is solid as well because they sell ones that say "solid" but it still has a cap over it.

Another great engineering feat by Ford.

Thanks man! Definitely could use some new ones before shit happens. 😃

2012 Focus had bad two piece lug nuts. Finally got all new one piece lug nuts.

I recently started a side business fixing cars for people and I'm currently working on this exact issue. I had originally thought the studs were stripped nut nope every lug is swollen. Literally every single one. I been chipping these caps off one by one. The heat causes the chrome cap to swell up .

Where is the link for the actual lugnuts...?

First thing I did on my px2 Ford Ranger was replace the POS lugs for one piece chrome ones.. When I put new tires on the truck, the mechanic made a special trip to the office to thank me for it... He hates the OEM lug nuts...

My F150 has this issue and this is my solution. I found that a 7/8 SAE socket fits them a little loose but it works nonetheless.So I simply went to China Freight and got me a cheap 1/2 breaker bar and put my deep well 7/8 socket and breaker bar in my toolbox and I dont worry about it anymore.I solved my problem for about 20 bucks.Oh yeah,one more thing.I also put my old worn out hammer in with the socket & breaker bar.Havent had to use them yet & hope I never do but Im ready if that time comes.

When using the half size sockets to remove the swollen lug nuts, use a breaker bar to remove and not an impact wrench. The impact wrench backs off and does not get a good impact simular to using extentions. Otherwise the impact wrench takes longer to remove and the lug nut gets jamed and hard to remove from the half size socket.

I never have an issue until I go to a tire shop. Every time they mess up some of my lug nuts. I do my rotations and brake jobs even use an impact with a deep, thin-walled Snap-On. I tighten with a 55 ftlb torque stick then follow with a torque wrench at 80 ft lbs.The irony is tire shops tell me my nuts are swollen. Yet a brand-new SnapOn 21 fits them fine. P.S. this is. 2013 Infinit G37 with the same 2-piece lug nuts. Now I just lend the shop my socket each time…. and the lug nuts survive service.

I'm not seeing a link in the description for any lug nuts. Was this removed at some point or an oversight?

Here in the rust belt, we get rust and corrosion between the inner nut and the cap. This swells up the cap and sockets don’t fit. Another flaw with the two piece design 😕

No link for the lug nuts

Aw, man. Don't knock my Pittsburgh sockets. Lol.