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Originally Posted by mlh
McGuards are on my wife’s 2013 Escape with 44,000 miles on it and for the same reason. I ask at our Goodyear dealer how many brands are susceptible to to swollen lug nuts, all of them. They have a special set of sockets each slightly larger than the last to remove swollen nuts. That should give you an indication of how frequently they find swollen nuts.
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Neither a 19mm impact or conventional socket, which are the OE size wouldn't fit while a well used (sloppy S-K socket) 12 point 3/4" was too big. I found an almost new US made S-K 6 point impact socket that I drove on would work. I can only guess what pain a roadside flat could have caused.