well got some blackfire wheel and tire cleaner and it was a good weekend to try it out. my wheels weren't significantly dirty, but i wanted to do it right--remove the wheels and clean both sides figuring it'd be a good test for the cleaner.

my wheels use muteki lugnuts, and it requres a lugnut adapter to remove/install them. tried to remove the lugnuts...well this is the result of shop machine tightening vs. lugnut adapter and 90 lbs weakling:





why dont they just hand tighten it? what if i was on the road and got a flat? ugh. gonna try to buy a replacement at AutoRND, the place where i bought my wheels and tires.
-meGrimlock

 

It sucks, I know. I wish I had a place/money for my own lift to make things easier. Every time I need to pull a wheel I nearly break my back trying to get the lugnuts off. All because the tire places don't want to hand-tighten them. When I swapped out my front pads a few month ago I discovered one of my lugnuts was cross-threaded. Stupid bastards.

 

damn air wrenchs !!!

 

take it back to the shop that did that... make a scene... and of course, never go back :0

 

That would really suck!

 

Whoa! Everytime I go to the tire shop and there's a need to take the wheels off, I always make sure and tell 'em to hand-loosen and hand tighten 'em.

I only go to one place so I don't have a problem with that and they know by now to always use their hands to tighten them.

 

by the way, this is the damage to the wheel when the adapter finally gave way and hit against my wheel:

after cleaning:


closeup

boo crappy torque crazy tools, hooray beer!

 

Dude. It just looks like a chip. Whatcha gonna do now?

But yeah that does suck.

 

it is a chip. i dunno, i dont wanna buy another wheel. i already get pissed off everytime something happens to my car...im tired of trying so hard to keep the car in good shape, i should've just bought an old chevy nova and be done with it. i'll just concentrate on getting a replacement key.
-meGrimlock

 

Nail polish? the "paint" women wear on their fingernails, use a black glossy one, i guarantee noone will see the difference unless they are looking for it...

 

Or if the chick wears gunmetal on her nails...

 

yea...thats not just black paint, i dont shop women's cosmetics but im pretty sure gunmetal isnt a nail polish color

 

Dang, those wheels look really nice (in spite of the chip). I like the design a lot. Maybe you could find a bottle of touch-up paint for cars in that dark gray color...something in me says Mercedes Benz would have a color verrrry similar to that on the cars they sell/sold before. Just my thought.

 

mmmm


I was just trying to point that black paint and gun metal are more alike than silver and gun metal, you know give a temporaly solution, for the "problem" and ofcourse the only way to correct it its to give a touch up with the original paint, or if you are a real neatness freak, re-do all the paint in the rim, if i were you, Ill be more worried about the rust, than that very very tiny scratch.

 

well if i was gonna get it repaired, there is a ton of curb rash on the polished lip of a few of the wheels. i'd wanna get that fixed too. black nail polish isnt a bad idea, just wouldnt match too well. luckily the rust is just on the hub, not on the wheels...and if i could get the darn wheels off without taking off chunks of the wheel then i'd try to address the rust too.
i ordered a new lugnut adapter. next oil change im gonna ask for a rotation and specifically request they retorque it by hand.