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Well, after hearing odd noises from my front left wheel (read, wheel i hit gutter with when i dodged roo) i jacked it up, and a few of my wheel nuts were a bit loose. i started tightening them, then one decided to shear off.... this is a pain in the butt, nothing ever goes right with my car

I know for some cars you can replace the stud when this happens, is this true for skylines? and is there anywhere in particular i'd have to go, or will most stearing/suspension places be able to fix this? so frustrated right now...

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Ouch, lucky you picked up on it...

I can see it now, traveling down the road and seeing a wheel go past.... Hang on, that's my wheel !!

When I got the R33 GTS-t (years ago), one of the studs were rooted, I took it into that tyre place in Phillip on the main drag and they put a new stud in the hub for me. I think it was $70 all up or something...

J

you may be best to go to nissan and get the stud from them as i had a couple let go on my car and i got the aftermarket (supposedly cheaper) ones and they were too big to fit the hub, the nissan genuine were a perfect fit and cheaper too, thats on a 32 tho

Well, after hearing odd noises from my front left wheel (read, wheel i hit gutter with when i dodged roo) i jacked it up, and a few of my wheel nuts were a bit loose. i started tightening them, then one decided to shear off.... this is a pain in the butt, nothing ever goes right with my car

I know for some cars you can replace the stud when this happens, is this true for skylines? and is there anywhere in particular i'd have to go, or will most stearing/suspension places be able to fix this? so frustrated right now...

Sheared OFF??!! Remind me not to get into an arm wrestle with you.

I don't mean to questioning your judgement in any way but might there be another problem that caused the shearing? I can understand them coming loose from the hub or cross threading etc but I've never seen a wheel stud shear off before - even with a big ass rattle gun going berserk to the point that the nut cant be undone with an extension bar. After all we are talking about some pretty serious size studs in most cases. Then again if they were replaced already with inferior quality stuff, perhaps before you had the car, no wonder.

It isn't actually that hard to shear them off. Spastics at a certain tyre centre cross threaded one of my studs on my old liberty resulting in it shearing off. Also managed to put some lovely scratches on my wheels. Not impressed.

Well, problem solved. i took the car into discount tyre service this morning. $10 for wheel stud, $5 for a new wheel nut and $60 for labour. all in all, í'm happy with the price.

it happened i think when i hit the gutter dodging a roo. i have an impact fracture in that tyre at the same point where the stud sheared off. coincidence? i think not. so i need a new tyre as well after all that.

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