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What the hell is lug studs?
Instead of studs that come out of the hub and a lug nut bolts down on the other side of the wheel, you have a threaded lugnut as one piece that bolts from the outside of the wheel into the hub. Less diy friendly imo and seems far less secure
It is maybe less DIY friendly because the wheel will not stay on the hub without at least one bolt inserted. Once you realize that's the case, you put the wheel on and one of the bottom lug bolts maybe 2-3 turns in to prevent the wheel from falling off. I don't see how they would be any less safe than studs and nuts. You tighten them to the appropriate torque spec and will never lose a wheel. The only other disadvantage I see is that you're not gonna be able to easily fix badly damaged threads, but when and how would that happen?
Yes. Well with regular studs you can hang the wheel off the studs and it's easy to line up. Also yes with studs you just replace the stud, with wheel bolts you're tapping the hub to repair it or replacing the hub. It's just enshitification to sell parts and laboris what I'm getting at
My car is 26 years old, with OE hubs and wheel bolts. My family traditionally had VWs; none ever had any issues with broken threads or bolts. I'm pretty sure that the approach works and has worked for many decades.
Well it's dumb
Skill issue.
Lol naw. Just bad design
I had a vehicle with the lug bolts, but it was more like an Allen key with the hex in the middle. Caused me all sorts of trouble when the head cracked while I was trying to change a tire.
Sounds like one of those anti-theft sets where one lug bolt requires a special key. The rest (or on my old Golf: all of them) are standard 17, 19 or 21 mm heads.
Yes, it’s called a wheel bolt. And they are much better than studs in every way. It’s why all the German brands use them.
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Yeah, no, eat a dick. Wrong
Ah yes the genius engineers that brought you the easy to maintain and repair: audi, vw and Mercedes. Germans do a lot of things right but cars are not one of them