wheelstud questions

pdennis93

Registered User
saturday night my sc started making some noise from the front left, i thought i had gotten some ice or something up there. today i was driving it and it got a bit worse, the steering wheel started shaking really bad so i pulled over, jacked up the car and when i pulled the center cap off, 5 lugnuts came falling out, 3 of which had broken pieces of stud in there. WOW not good!!!!!!!!! well after a ride to the gas station to call for help and a walk back, i was actually able to save myself a tow by putting the spare on the front left and tightening it down on 2 full length studs and 1 that was about 1/2 still there. i dont know what would cause this, i havent hd the wheel off since a brake job in october, maybe something with the cold and 110k miles on the studs, or that saturday morning while trying to get the sc on ramps, the rear end kicked sideways while the front wheels were on the ramps (going up, not on)

so my questions are,

1. about how much is a shop gonna charge for 5 wheel studs to be installed, and
2. how could 2 of the studs just undo themselves like that????
 
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