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Message: <blockquote data-quote="brdgbldr" data-source="post: 118185" data-attributes="member: 7474">So here's an update to my torque problems.This all started because the tires on my, new to me, A300 needed to be rotated. So today I decided to do just that. As I go to loosen the very first lug nut….I can't. It took a 6 foot long breaker bar to get it loose. I had to use that breaker bar on only 3 nuts but the rest obviously were not all torqued the same. As I go to put the lug nuts back on, I notice that some won't even start and others will only go on a few threads before locking up. I never force anything and upon further inspection of the lugs I found that the lug threads were clogged with the threads of the lug nuts that had failed. I found 9 of these. So someone had over torqued the nuts and the threads from the nuts had imbedded themselves in the lug threads.   Luckily none of the lugs were stripped or broken. I had to take a pick and scrape out all of the nut thread material out of the lug threads. This was not an easy task, but several hours later and nine new lug nuts and I got the tires rotated. I went with 115 ft-lbs for torque for now. I'll keep checking them to see if they need more or not.</blockquote>