um if you're next to the car u can tell what it is by the tread design...

It is stuck due to metal and metal contact.. you should able to tap the tires off with a dead blow / plastic hammer. Tap on the rubber for maximum torque.

The whole point is to clean the contact points, that is the wheel bearing area (the extrusion where the wheel rest on, use a scotchpad for that). The wheel carrier.. after everything is clean, spray both sides (wheel and wheel carrier) with lithium grease and wipe off. If your car uses nuts, use a toothbrush to clean the threads too.

If you are using alloy wheels, remember to wax the wheels before you put them on so brake dust won't stick on (when you wash and change tire). I use so left over teflon turtle wax for that.. seems to work well.

thinking of getting these for the 2nd car.

http://www.tirerack.com/accessories/...k/autosock.jsp

has anyone tried them?

i can finally try the wrx in some snow :)

this is the MORE correct forcast :P

http://www.weatheroffice.gc.ca/city/..._metric_e.html

That's me, and they're garbage tires at that. Gonna put my snowies on this sunday I think

usually mazda's, especially mazda 3's wheels are stuck to the hub. some of them i use a big ass hammer to whack it off (usually the edge of the rim, never the tire or else the bead wire might break and there will be lumps)

^ Better be a mallet. lol Or atleast a piece of wood in between.

Well if it does snow this weekend, I'm ready.

Pic of my car from last year's dumpage of snow.

http://img365.imageshack.us/img365/9379/img0995copy.jpg http://img365.imageshack.us/img365/i...jpg/1/w800.png

dude you have an s4?! i'm still driving the shitbox! actually its parked for the winter, but i have another EF i got for free that i'm driving hahah

Yeah Nick...recently picked it up as well as a 98 Civic hatch...got snow tires on that too and stock height.

torque on the lugs depends on the car.

BUT a general rule is 75-90ft lbs is plenty enough.

That's it? THIS is last year:

http://img513.imageshack.us/img513/3...2938670405.jpg

:lol

^ Damn it turned in to an XC90...

Note quite. The ground was, uh, raised. hahahahaha :lol

http://photos-d.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-...88158_6608.jpg
that's a prelude.... I think

this was last year.... I remembered

All I know is I'm still on my summers as my winters aren't here yet :(

I know Ceco in coquitlam has a poster chart that they sell with torque specs and other wheel information. But that can also be found on the web like this site:

http://www.discounttiredirect.com/di...heelTorque.jsp

lol ive only been torquing my lugs at 20ft-lbs didn't even realize there was a suggested level until i had my winters installed at costco and i read on the sheet listing the "manufacturers suggested torque level"

never had a problem in the past though, luckily

exactly.

80 to 85 pounds should be good enough ;)

TWENTY?! You're lucky nothing happened in the past holy shit that's low.

OHHHH SHITTTT looking at that pic brings back the horrific memory that i had from last year


it was just insane

:haha:

lol 20 pounds is like hand tightened lol

hahaha...that pic was taken December 24th, 2008 so the real dumpage hadn't begun.

I was too lazy to take an updated pic because I was too busy shovelling snow out of the driveway.

the TL did horrible... make matters worse.. it was trapped on a driveway of a house at the end of a long icey alley which of course never gets plowed... I gave up on it and used the wife's 06 civic. BUT this time, winter tires are ON!




http://www.user.dccnet.com/sislam/tlsnow.jpg