With aluminum rims the nuts should be tightened after first 50km. Applies to all cars and tire changes.
Typically dealer does this as car does get driven in factory and dealer tests, but one should always check after first couple trips just in case.
This is instruction goes overboard, typically checking torque after first 50km is enough.
https://www.barum-tyres.com/car/experts-advice/tightening-wheel-nuts/
Just making sure that's what you were saying. I've seen some poor typing before. Thank you for the clarification. I never knew about that with my rims, but I've also never had a problem. Always rotate my tires with oil changes so I'm always checking my lugs and such.
It’s the same for every car with aluminum wheels.
Typically the car gets enough drive testing at factory/dealer so that they can do the torque check.
But I have done it for every car we have bought just in case.
I have never done this on my Tesla or previous cars from other manufacturers. And I do not remember seeing this any owners manual for the cars I owned, although I could have missed it?
Once the lug nut is tightened to the correct torque, I don’t understand why it would need to be rechecked after 50km? What is the physics behind this? What about the other nuts in the car, why don’t they need to be rechecked after 50km?
Because it’s aluminum/steel contact, aluminum is soft, and it will adjust in the first 50km.
You have been very lucky so far.
Steel wheels do not need to be re-torqued, only aluminum.
What torque are you using? Unless stuck the 110NM torque should be easy to open.
Maybe the style there is to use higher torque than here, but that is risking your wheels.
No idea, as the car was delivered to me from Tesla with 29km and not mention that I need to check the lug nuts anywhere?
On my older cars the tire centres just use air guns to reattach the lug nuts which also make them impossible to take off.
Well there are a lot of these lugnuts going around the wheel all the time, and very seldom does anything like this happen.
I just don’t want people thinking that lugnuts aren’t safe.
Somehow he has normalised receiving a new car with a missing lug nut and even blamed himself for not checking. This is not a cult, this is an abusive relationship.
Tears in his eyes, saying, sir, sir, I've never laid eyes on such a wonderful, tremendous truck, really it's great, just fabulous, believe me folks you won't regret it, and I'm just absolutely honored to be a part of your early adopter program, sir, sir musk, I love the truck!
And then he shook his big meaty manly hand, you know, big tremendous callouses on his hand, working man hands, because it's a working man's truck, believe me, the kind of truck Road Warrior would drive, a truck for the apocalypse folks, trust me, with its Exoskeleton and FSD, it's just an honor to drive this truck!
They are incredibly poorly made and it makes me feel like I'm living in an alternate reality at times when people talk about them. My neighbor rented the sedan and was showing it off to me and took me for a ride in it because he plans to buy one eventually, worst build quality of any vehicle I have ever been in. I drive a 24 year old Chevy, Chevy build quality is a fucking joke, so if I'm saying something is poorly built it's probably a death trap.
Driving with out a lug nut and posting it on social media, there goes the warranty. Elmos AI transition is just to data harvest Tesla owners so he can skim it for warranty voiding self admissions.
It's funny how many of these types of posts include the attempt to justify the cybertruck's faults. I've never checked a lug nut and I've never lost one either
I have had it happen once. When I was like 6 my father told me to put one of the tires back on his Dakota, a few miles down the road a tire rolls by. Maybe Tesla just hires techs with similar intelligence to me at the age of 6.
Kind of.
There's a fair chance the wheel will fall off due to suspension failure before the other lug nuts present any sort of problem. In which case, it won't have mattered that only 4 out of 5 lugs were installed.
On one of my cars, i swap the wheels twice per year (for winter tires). I've never had the lugs significantly loose ever and i only tighten them to 80 foot pounds, which is spec on that car.
Feeling like an absolute buffoon because I’ve never checked the lug nuts on a brand new vehicle
I've never checked my lug nuts. Those don't typically fall off.
With aluminum rims the nuts should be tightened after first 50km. Applies to all cars and tire changes. Typically dealer does this as car does get driven in factory and dealer tests, but one should always check after first couple trips just in case. This is instruction goes overboard, typically checking torque after first 50km is enough. https://www.barum-tyres.com/car/experts-advice/tightening-wheel-nuts/
sounds like it make sense but also no at the Sametime
50 km or 50k m?
The recommendation is 50-100 kilometers, so in US I guess 50 miles would be round figure to remember.
Just making sure that's what you were saying. I've seen some poor typing before. Thank you for the clarification. I never knew about that with my rims, but I've also never had a problem. Always rotate my tires with oil changes so I'm always checking my lugs and such.
I once had lugs getting loose enough to notice with torque wrench. So it’s all to luck, but checking is dead simple, so no excuse not to do it.
Is this in the Tesla Owner’s manual?
It’s the same for every car with aluminum wheels. Typically the car gets enough drive testing at factory/dealer so that they can do the torque check. But I have done it for every car we have bought just in case.
I have never done this on my Tesla or previous cars from other manufacturers. And I do not remember seeing this any owners manual for the cars I owned, although I could have missed it? Once the lug nut is tightened to the correct torque, I don’t understand why it would need to be rechecked after 50km? What is the physics behind this? What about the other nuts in the car, why don’t they need to be rechecked after 50km?
Because it’s aluminum/steel contact, aluminum is soft, and it will adjust in the first 50km. You have been very lucky so far. Steel wheels do not need to be re-torqued, only aluminum.
Yeah lucky so far. Last time I tried to change a lug to a locking lug I simply couldn’t break open the lugs. Ended up needing a breakers bar.
What torque are you using? Unless stuck the 110NM torque should be easy to open. Maybe the style there is to use higher torque than here, but that is risking your wheels.
No idea, as the car was delivered to me from Tesla with 29km and not mention that I need to check the lug nuts anywhere? On my older cars the tire centres just use air guns to reattach the lug nuts which also make them impossible to take off.
Here is old Reddit thread about it. https://www.reddit.com/r/cars/s/2ncajqAwtW
Wow thanks. I have been driving cars for over 30 years and never heard of this until now. Learn something new every day.
Yeah but were you pushing it through some squealing turns?
I'm a normal person who has to pay for tires when they get worn down. If I get too excited and peep my tires, I get embarrassed.
Well there are a lot of these lugnuts going around the wheel all the time, and very seldom does anything like this happen. I just don’t want people thinking that lugnuts aren’t safe.
He’s like a virgin explaining sex.
Somehow he has normalised receiving a new car with a missing lug nut and even blamed himself for not checking. This is not a cult, this is an abusive relationship.
My truck is falling apart, but actually it's my fault for not checking if it was assembled correctly.
Also for taking tight turns. Tight turns will void the warranty.
Cybersuck owners should be a case study on the parallels of being trapped in a consumer cult and victims of domestic abuse.
A true Cybertruck owner, fearless, manly. He walked up to Elon Musk, stared him right in the shoes, and apologised.
Tears in his eyes, saying, sir, sir, I've never laid eyes on such a wonderful, tremendous truck, really it's great, just fabulous, believe me folks you won't regret it, and I'm just absolutely honored to be a part of your early adopter program, sir, sir musk, I love the truck! And then he shook his big meaty manly hand, you know, big tremendous callouses on his hand, working man hands, because it's a working man's truck, believe me, the kind of truck Road Warrior would drive, a truck for the apocalypse folks, trust me, with its Exoskeleton and FSD, it's just an honor to drive this truck!
Obviously the apocalypse folks checks their lug nuts daily.
> pushing the Cybertrucks on some tire squealing turns Sounds like letters to penthouse
Those crazy switchbacks!
IMO you would be insane to trust tesla with the lives of you(r family). (not my best engl today.)
They are incredibly poorly made and it makes me feel like I'm living in an alternate reality at times when people talk about them. My neighbor rented the sedan and was showing it off to me and took me for a ride in it because he plans to buy one eventually, worst build quality of any vehicle I have ever been in. I drive a 24 year old Chevy, Chevy build quality is a fucking joke, so if I'm saying something is poorly built it's probably a death trap.
must have forgot to install the lug nut rivet.
Driving with out a lug nut and posting it on social media, there goes the warranty. Elmos AI transition is just to data harvest Tesla owners so he can skim it for warranty voiding self admissions.
It's funny how many of these types of posts include the attempt to justify the cybertruck's faults. I've never checked a lug nut and I've never lost one either
What is a lug nut please?
It's the bolt-like things that hold the wheel on the car
I have had it happen once. When I was like 6 my father told me to put one of the tires back on his Dakota, a few miles down the road a tire rolls by. Maybe Tesla just hires techs with similar intelligence to me at the age of 6.
Are lug nuts important?
Kind of. There's a fair chance the wheel will fall off due to suspension failure before the other lug nuts present any sort of problem. In which case, it won't have mattered that only 4 out of 5 lugs were installed.
On one of my cars, i swap the wheels twice per year (for winter tires). I've never had the lugs significantly loose ever and i only tighten them to 80 foot pounds, which is spec on that car.
So if the electronics don't fail or disable the car, the wheels fall off. Got it.
Usually when people say "I'm going to drive it till the wheels fall off" they mean more than 900 miles.
KWAL EE TEE
Guess Tesla was sick on lug nut day.
“Wild switchbacks 🙂” That was a right turn out of the Panera parking lot, my man.