Re: Modern Ford Q? Swollen Nuts
Swollen Nuts.
I got my 2015 van back home all fixed.
My bill lists replacing "Swollen Nuts"
In talking to the front desk lady(A mechanic in her own rite), she sez Ford changes many of these. I have got one of my swollen lug nuts. My hub design has the nuts visible when mounted. The nut itself is not platted: a covering of plated steel (magnetic) is wrapped around the threaded lug providing the shine and hole covering, The bad one from my van shows the covering metal "smeared" around the lug nut corners and wrinkled some. I carry a large cross-wrench in the car. The wrinkled sheet metal will not allow the proper end to fit over the damaged nut. I'm told that the lousy lug l wrench can to that damage. (I have never liked the lug wrenches that come with the jacks.) I don't even know if I hammered on the cross wrench that I could reshape the sheet metal cap to proper function size,
From what I am reading, maybe there is more than one problem: corrosion, swelling and cover wrinkling??
I don't know for how many years the problem can l exist.
Clem
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