I had a very adventurous day today. On my drive out to Little Canadia to pick up b00stedspyder's 2g tails; I noticed a weird sound coming from the driver's side rear tire.
I kinda ignored it thinking it maybe suspension was just creeking. When I got back home I finally decided something was up, it had gotten louder and louder. Especially at low speeds but the faster I went the quicker the wub wub sound was. I got out and kicked the tire, the wheel moved a little without the lugs following immediately.
The garage I have to work on the car is in Maple Grove and I live in St. Louis Park. So I drove to the Discount Tire in Plymouth. I asked the guy to torque the lug nuts down. He comes out and tries to tighten the lug nuts. When I say try, he used two 1/4 turns and said, "I can't do this for you. Your car is unsafe to drive and unless you buy new wheels and replace the studs, I can't work on it. When the wheel wobbles it screws up the studs, that's why they won't tighten."
My jaw dropped. So I unscrewed one of the lugs and told him that the studs hadn't even been touched. There was zero indication of the wheel even touching the studs. He still refused to tighten them.
So I had to call everyone I know to find stock lug nuts. Since the spline drives on the car were eating away at the ID of the wheel stud hole. Found some, but had to run to MG to grab my torque wrench and spline drive key. Then back to Discount to tighten them. Then over to MAP to get the lug nuts. Finally just got home at 9 after some Honda tried stalking me to race.
To be honest, today was fun. I did miss the excitement that was gone while I didn't have a DSM.
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