# Anyone use SKUNK2 Forged Lug Nuts **URL:** \ **Category:** PittSpeed Automotive\ **Created:** [June 17, 2009, 1:48pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/anyone-use-skunk2-forged-lug-nuts/203022 "2009-06-17T13:48:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 16
**Author:** ![2009\_SI-ONARA](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/2/d6d6ee/32.png) [@2009\_SI-ONARA](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/2009_SI-ONARA)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2009, 6:38am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/anyone-use-skunk2-forged-lug-nuts/203022/16 "2009-06-18T06:38:08Z")
> [@AVP-R](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/avp-r/39726/4): > > Those particular lugs have a good reputation, and I highly doubt it has anything to do with heat treating or anodizing. Anodizing is not done with heat, it’s done with current, in a **temperature** controlled ionic bath. > > As far as I know the lugs aren’t even tapped until after the machining and heat treat process occurs anyway. My guess is that your stock lugs are a bit stretched. Try the tap and it should be a non-issue. that is what I meant by the anodizing process it is in a basically boiling bath at one point. I do not know that actual manufacting process but from looks anodizing was done after the threads were cut which makes sense well here is my next question. Is there anyone locally that carries any lug nuts from volk, rays, mcgard. anyone, that I can go by another set. Im not convinced that my studs are stretch that much from the factory, this is the first time they are off and the car as 2000 miles on it --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/anyone-use-skunk2-forged-lug-nuts/203022)._