I bought the car with a slow leak in the drivers side rear. No biggie I'll just inflate the tire every couple of weeks. thats fine. i take the insurance off for the winter and my tire becomes flat . i bust out with the compressor to find that my anodized aluminum valve stem cover have some how bonded to the stem. So now I'm starting to get annoyed. I get out the good old vise grips........no dice. . Fine I'll take off the damn wheel off. ****, theres wheel locks and i dont have a key. Alright time to cut that f'ing cap off with my dremel. All goes well the cap gets cut off. Bust out with the compressor for the second time. Turns out i cut a small channel in the stem so the air leak out that channel and doesnt go into the tire.. Ok, now i plan on just getting the lock off without the key. I get my dad to tighten the other lug nuts, and by jamming a very small drill bit in one of the grooves on the lock and hammering a socket on the lock comes off. I get the next lug nut off. Awesome things are turning around. Man, I was wrong. I get out the tire iron and attempt to get the other lugs off. THEY WONT ****ING BUDGE, not with my weight, my dads, a breaker bar, or with liquid wrench. I break the socket on the iron. No joke. Not only did it break but stripped the bolt. In the end I have 3 lug nuts stuck on, 1 is stripped, a broken tire iron, a flat tire, a useless wheel lock, and a wastee of 2 and a bit hours.

So post your bad luck stories.


-----Tyler------

 

i had similar problems with my 85 fire bird. stupid locks no key paid good money to have locks removed. after driving 10 miles with 4 bolts on each wheel i felt a wobble, found several loose lugs. after fixing the problem i found the darn key under the pass seat... i thru it in the woods! some times we cause our own problems, good luck. have a nice day kevin

 

Not my story but when I heard it I couldnt belive it.
This guy builds this really bad *** motor, gets it installed and is just about ready to fire it up. He did ALL the assembly himself in his garage and walks past his tool bench after cleaning up some crap and finds a damn piston ring on the bench! He didnt wanna risk screwing up the motor so he had to pull it again and disassemble the motor. After tearing it down he finds out it was just an extra ring leftover from a previous job!
I would be so pissed if that was me! I think I read it in Super Chevy or CHP.

 

oh man that would put me over the edge

 

I don't think it is all that bad. i mean, it is a PITA to take down an already installed motor, but it gets easier each time you do it.

 

My car sat in a driveway outside for five years before I got it!!

I got the lug nuts off OK, but every wheel was corroded to the hubs!!

Believe it or not, we had to take a mini-sledge and whack seriously hard on the inside of each tire (and one wheel) to bust them off!! And I mean multiple times!!

That sucked real bad.....