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Is it safe to drive on two lugnuts?

Discussion in 'General Discussion' started by Ninety Four, Oct 23, 2005.

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    Ninety Four New Member

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    Is it safe to drive on two lugnuts?

    My wheel fell off today because apparently someone tried to steal my wheels or lugnuts. I have the sport lugs that are hard to get to without an extender, so the people could only loosen the nuts.

    To make a long story short, I can only put two lugs on my front drivers side wheel. Is it okay to drive about 15 miles on that tomorrow?
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    Dr Tweak Mad Scientist

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    VERY carefully.
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    m120004 VTEC Killer

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    NO!!! Find some nuts in your toolbox and see if you have one that fits. then drive to toyota and have $20 ready its $3 each but get extras and leave it in your golve box

    That Happened to me too because it cost $2000 a set of just rims so they stole it but my friends dogs attacked them they got 2 of my nuts drove it and it fell off,
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    So now youre nutless...damn.
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    I've driven on 2 lugnuts before and it wasn't pretty because your wheel is unstable and you'll most likely brake the other lugnuts from all the movement of the wheel.........yeah i didn't have a good experience with that..
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    Paolino SolidTuned

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    I don't see why only two?

    Did they steal an entire set? Take one from the other wheels and drive to the toyota dealership like M120004 said. I bought one a couple months back. He's right, they're like $3 a piece. It may not look good with your tuner lugs, but damage to your car won't look good either I'm guessing...
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    Ninety Four New Member

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    Yeah I got a third one on there. I'm taking it to a wheel shop today to get tuner lugs, because regular lugs physically won't fit my wheels. One stud also broke, so I have to go get that fixed too.
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    Take one of the nuts from both rear wheels, so you can have 4 nuts at both front wheels and 3 nuts on both rear wheels.
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    m120004 VTEC Killer

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    Yeah my rim fell off a few feet from the garage we jacked it, and took all the rims off just in case they steal it again. and I have to spendthe night there and went to Toyota the next day using "TeggyR", the parts guy said its very common because the OEM rims cost $500 each. bought some nuts and wheels locks too.
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    Ninety Four New Member

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    Yeah I had some wheel locks before, but they won't fit these new rims I have. Gotta buy some new ones. Anyone know a good brand of tuning wheel locks?
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    I just bought the Gorilla brand locks from JC whitney.
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    Yeah I run mcguard and got it from summit racing too, best part is they gave me a $20 credit towards my next order for being a new customer (brought some camber bolts :) and some stupid looking hat. I'm not a fan of how they look but they look like the safest one out there since you need 2 different adapters to remove 1 wheel. If I had my choice I'd go with some Rays extended lugs tho.
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    NO! (to the original question)

    haha
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    My goodness...whoever game me negative reputation point because of that needs to get a damn sense of humor.....:D

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