This is what actually happened to my Wheel Stud...

[FourthGenHatch]

About the broken wheel stud, we were all very mistaken...

Well this morning I tired drilling it out but my ***** ass 9v drill sucks ass and really didn't do much. So I took it to my friend who works are a garage. We used and air wrench and tried pulling on the wheel and seeing if the area of the stud we thought had frayed would wear down and we could pull it through. So after trying all kinds of stuff still no luck. So by this time he had to go do some real work and I came up with a plan. I thought this stud was being held in by the Rotor, so if I could undo the rotor with the wheel still on it should pull right out, right? So I go home and put all the tools into the back of my car and go to town. I jacked it up. I managed to pull the wheel out far enough to undo the bolts on the caliper braket and get the whole brake assembly off with the wheel still on the car. After that I unscrewed the Rotor (Slipstreams have holes exposing the screws, what luck!). So then with all that off I gave it a good pull and still nothing. I thought it was stuck so I tried again. So then I looked around the back of the wheel to see what I could see. I saw the back of the hub and to my horror the studs were all intact. I discovered that the wheel stud had not broken, rather the threads on the stud and lug ate through eachother making them basically one solid piece. So my current plan is I'm going to buy a nice drill (I really need one anyway) and I'm going to drill it out to the point where the lug nut can be smashed off with ease. After that I can get the wheel off and possibly replace the stud into the hub. Even if not I can have a shop do it for really cheap.

The bad part is that the air wrench basically ate the seating out of the place where the lugnut goes, and the powdercoating is scratched badly. So I think I need to replace this rim. No big deal, they still make them, $112+shipping. What I might do however is take the old wheel and new rim to the tire shop, put the Kumho on the new rim, and get a unidirectional tire of the sort on the ****ed rim and then I can use that as a spare, and if I strip my trunk out again it would look really sweet. So not a total loss.

[sastanley]

Originally posted by FourthGenHatch
...rather the threads on the stud and lug ate through eachother making them basically one solid piece...

Sounds like what happened to my shift knob when I put it on my new short shifter (read as crossed threads :o )...turns out I don't like the shifter anyway, so it is an excuse to replace it with one I do like when I have $$ to burn.

Glad you figured out the problem...and now you have a matching wheel for a spare...I always think it looks goofy as crap when peeps have their donut spare on a slammed car...it must make something drag with it so low

[FourthGenHatch]

Bump!