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Originally Posted by shorod

What type of car do you have? It seems just about all lugnuts have migrated to metric over the past several years. Are you sure you shouldn't be using a 19mm or possibly 21mm socket on those lugnuts?

If you're not using the correct socket, some of that torque you are applying could be going to deforming the nut, and over time you might end up damaging them as well, especially removing them with an impact if the socket isn't correct.

-Rod

It is 1998 Toyota Camry.