Lug nuts hold your wheel to the car, so as you can probably imagine, they're pretty important. So why do mechanics make this ...

Tom: Volvo uses wheel bolts instead of lug nuts to hold the wheels on. On most cars, if you take a wheel off, the wheel bolts are sticking out at you. They're permanently attached to the wheel hubs.

I sometimes find myself in the middle of oddball arguments. The most recent one was about wheel fasteners, specifically whether wheel bolts were better than wheel studs for affixing the wheel to ...

Wheel bolts are standard on many German-built cars, and use a threaded stem attached to a tapered head that matches to the wheel insert. The bolt goes from the wheel, through the brake rotor hat ...

With wheel and tyre combinations often costing more than £1,000, it really pays to protect your rims. There are plenty of locking bolts and nuts on the market, but which are the best? We attacked ...

Step into the heart of a blazing factory where massive machinery wheels for nut and bolt systems are forged under extreme heat! Molten metal is shaped, pressed, and precision-cut to ensure ...

The Wheel Bolts On Some Lamborghini Aventador SVs Can’t Handle The Stress. Lamborghini is recalling a handful of Aventador SuperVeloces to better secure their wheel bolts ...

A while back, I made a list of the five things I hated most about my 2003 Porsche 911 Carrera, aka the 996. When I mentioned that I was not too fond of how the brake pedal felt, many of you ...

A wheel fastener that required a torque of about 136 Nm (100 lb-ft) was quite often bolted on at a minimum of 542 Nm (400 lb-ft), meaning it rarely came loose. These fasteners were more tolerant ...

Park on level ground, set the emergency brake, and chock the wheels. Loosen the lug nuts about a half turn each, but don't remove them. Move in a star pattern, starting from the top, then going to ...