Howdy!
Has anyone figured out a work-around for swollen lugnuts? I hate to have to keep replacing them, but don't want to get stranded on the side of the road with a flat and be unable to remove them because the socket no longer fits the lugnut.

 

I had chrome decorator "shells" on the lugnuts of my 1984 Jeep Cherokee; when I bought this in '88, found some would simply spin when trying to remove them. I chiseled those off, and with a smaller socket was able to remove the real steel lug nuts underneath. Fearing a flat on the road someday, I simply bought all new regular lug nuts for all the wheels.

Stupid cost-savings idea as far as I was concerned; apparently that path is still followed.

An aside: we bought our 2005 Yukon Denali in 2010, had real fancy Sacchi aftermarket wheels on it. Looked into this early, and the stock lug wrench was too wide to fit into the recesses to loosen its fancy lugnuts; ordered a special thin-wall lug socket. I carried that in the vehicle, turned out even AAA did not carry such socket on their trucks, had to use ours. If course, the spare was a regular stock wheel so had to carry along stock lug nuts in case its use was ever needed. Maybe the narrow access holes for the lug nuts was a simple type of theft-deterrent, don't know....

 

Thank you for your response! Do you have a link to the solid lugnuts? I can only find the capped ones, like I have. Unless I use the uncapped ones and they aren't covered, look kind of weird with an aluminum wheel with exposed lugnuts.

 

I'd say many stores, and online like Amazon and https://lugnutguys.com/pages/search-...ction=lug-nuts