Sparky-Watts
Banned
Re: RE: Re: RE: Re: RE: girl + jeep
Yesterday I changed the oil in the YJ and was getting ready to rotate the tires when I noticed a couple of lug nuts on one rear wheel missing. When I pulled the other three off, I noticed that one of the remaining nuts was stripped pretty badly, and had damaged the stud also. I'm thinking someone was trying to rip off my wheels and either got caught or thought I had a locking nut when they stripped the other lug. The only place this could have happened was at work, because I leave it locked in the garage all the time it's home, and I haven't left it anywhere else unattended for any amount of time. But at work, it's parked right across the street in front of the building, and it's never there at night in the dark. Yeah, I know it doesn't have to be dark to get stolen, but that's a very busy street, and a very busy shop with people coming and going all the time. Someone had to be pretty ballsy to try to steal them there.
Anyway, I replaced the stud and lug nuts and finished with the tire rotation. I've had the tires since July and haven't rotated them until now (because since I haven't worked, I haven't put many miles on them until now). They look good, just a little feathering on the fronts, but the rears seem to be wearing fast.
Yesterday I changed the oil in the YJ and was getting ready to rotate the tires when I noticed a couple of lug nuts on one rear wheel missing. When I pulled the other three off, I noticed that one of the remaining nuts was stripped pretty badly, and had damaged the stud also. I'm thinking someone was trying to rip off my wheels and either got caught or thought I had a locking nut when they stripped the other lug. The only place this could have happened was at work, because I leave it locked in the garage all the time it's home, and I haven't left it anywhere else unattended for any amount of time. But at work, it's parked right across the street in front of the building, and it's never there at night in the dark. Yeah, I know it doesn't have to be dark to get stolen, but that's a very busy street, and a very busy shop with people coming and going all the time. Someone had to be pretty ballsy to try to steal them there.
Anyway, I replaced the stud and lug nuts and finished with the tire rotation. I've had the tires since July and haven't rotated them until now (because since I haven't worked, I haven't put many miles on them until now). They look good, just a little feathering on the fronts, but the rears seem to be wearing fast.