I do a lot of followup inspections of "wheel loss" claims against most of the franchise tire stores- - - -Firestone, Goodyear, NTB, etc. I average reporting on 5 or 6 episodes a month, every month, in nine southeastern states. All of them have written policies requiring torquing wheel nuts- - - -which are almost universally ignored. The closest practice that's in common use is the use of "torque sticks", special stepped-down extensions that supposedly limit the torque an impact wrench applies- - - -but only if it's used exactly right. There's a different color torque stick for every commonly used wheel stud and lug nut size and thread, both standard and metric, so a full set of torque sticks covering most of the vehicles in use currently costs around $100.00. They're still a poor substitute for a torque wrench that's being used correctly. As long as franchise store managers are under the gun to put profit above customers' safety, wheels will keep running off cars, and I'll have some excellent job security.
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