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This reminds me of my previous Chevy Volt. I was changing winter tires to summer tires (or vice versa) and had the torque wrench adjusted to 150Nm as specified. However at 100Nm the bolts turned squishy and gave away.

Seems that the dealers tech had just used pneumatic impact wrench without torq limit to put the wheels into place and damaged the bolts. Had all bolts replaced on all wheels from dealers pocket.

No surprise tho, since their tech forgot to bolt the passenger seat in place after one repair which required access to a panel under the seat.

Never ever will I visit that dealer since cars are not roadworthy after their repairs.
 

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Freaking amateurs... There should be a "drivers license" for buying a chainsaw.
Based on some of the idiocy that appears online, now the chainsaws probably have a warning label to not lick the chain while it's running.
 

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This reminds me of my previous Chevy Volt. I was changing winter tires to summer tires (or vice versa) and had the torque wrench adjusted to 150Nm as specified. However at 100Nm the bolts turned squishy and gave away.

Seems that the dealers tech had just used pneumatic impact wrench without torq limit to put the wheels into place and damaged the bolts. Had all bolts replaced on all wheels from dealers pocket.

No surprise tho, since their tech forgot to bolt the passenger seat in place after one repair which required access to a panel under the seat.

Never ever will I visit that dealer since cars are not roadworthy after their repairs.
When I first changed the suspension on my forester I was tightening the top bolts using the ugga ugga method. All suspension bolts I had tightened prior had taken 3 ugga uggas. Apparently the top bolts only get torqued to 10 ft/LB or some low value.

So about halfway through the second ugga ugga, the bolt sheared.

I drove for a week with 2 bolts holding that side together...

They aren't easily replaceable because they are like wheel studs and they are pressed in... And the require partial disassembly of the top of the strut... After that, I used my torque wrench for all bolts beyond hand tight...
 
 








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