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Lug Bolts 101: The Same but Different

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Lug Bolts 101: The Same but Different

American made cars typically come with lug nuts; they're what we are used to seeing. There's a plethora of self-help websites and YouTube videos that will teach you how to change a tire using wheel studs and lug nuts. Seems easy enough, right? Then you go out to your German-made vehicle and realize in horror that you have no wheel studs. Your brake rotor rotates freely. All you have left for your efforts are a handful of funny looking bolts and a wheel that is most certainly not attached to your car. Yikes. Congratulations. Now you get to learn how to juggle...

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