Stud busting

[solo22]

Luckily remembered (dunno how i forgot!) that I busted a wheel stud+nut 3 months ago (!!!!!) when i blew both front tyres hitting a curb at speed (it was wet and i did one of those yanking turns on a roundabout...stupid)

I was thinking, oh yeah, 50-60$

Try around $220! Seems its a #$%# of a thing to do. 1.75 hours ultra tune quoted (so about 200$+part)

Course my dealer said, oh, take an hour, $120 (yeah right, they're just saying that to get me in there i reckon)

oh yeah and... i've probably warped the wheel, driving for 3 months with a half busted stud? (tip of stud is off, nut goes on 3/4 of the way)

SO, if you busted a stud/nut, how much did you pay? (in $ or if you were man enough to do it yourself, effort in hours!)

Note: its very uncommon according to the mechanic. really?!

[Boyracer]

I could change a front wheel stud in about 30min.

[irwin83r]

bob jane over stripped the splines off one of mine awhile ago and whiped their hands of it. i done it my self.

new stud and nut wasnt very pricey at all. cant remeber how much now but id say under/arround $20 for the stud.

i ended up removing the hub and drilling it out from behind. not sure if theres a quicker/easier option. once you know what your doing it wouldnt take 1.5 hours at all as boyracer points out.

[nfs13b]

Unless im not reading right, changing wheel studs is really easy. done it heaps of times in my car.

Wheel studs are like $6.50 each with a new nut.

www.niceproducts.com.au you can order them from Repco and all the other places.