# stripped lug bolt solution

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**Category:** Shift518 Automotive\
**Created:** [November 22, 2009, 10:43pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/stripped-lug-bolt-solution/248559 "2009-11-22T22:43:00Z")\
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**Post date:** [November 23, 2009, 6:00am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/stripped-lug-bolt-solution/248559/22 "2009-11-23T06:00:54Z")

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> [@LF: Roommate](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/lf-roommate/26244/3):
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> If you have a million dollar car, then yes. IE - If i was working on Tony’s ZR1, then yea. For the rest of the cars, a torque stick, or just an impact socket will work fine. Just have to know how to use an impact gun is all.

So, the fastener holding the wheel to the car knows what kind of car it is? I never knew that.

I’ll use the same theory next time I put a wheel on an airplane-if it’s just a Cessna 172, I’ll just tighten it to ‘whatever’.

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