IRevn

Hey all,

So I recently broke one of the wheel studs on the drivers side rear tire. And I'm going to bring in to the dealership to have repaired, but my main concern is that will I be able to drive my car safely? One of the people at acura assured me it would be okay to drive it. I'm not sure though, any help guys?

wong05tsx

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It is okay to drive on 4. Not 3 though
I drove on 4 studs for a good 2 months before I decided to finally fix it

princelybug

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You'll be fine.

extracrunchie

well you dont need to take it to the dealer to repair the stud itself is less than $2 CAD and the labor is cheap to replace

npolite

You'll be ok short term. Just don't take it on the highway. Are you sure you caused it, or did it break from some other job that was done by a tech? If it was someone else's fault go back and confront them to fix it. I have had this stripped multiple times on our various Honda/Acura's and with the exception of one time it was all caused by someone else not paying attention to what they were doing.

Itchytoe

You'll be ok with 4 for a short term. I wouldn't do it for long though. The physics involved with driving on 4 non-uniformly spaced studs as opposed to 5 evenly spaced ones is drastically different and not in a good way. Your wheel won't fall off, but it's far from ideal.

ryan07md

Is there any way to tell wheels studs are damaged without removing the wheel. Will it cause bad vibration

sortudo7

^ Hey Ryan, don't post here much I see lol. You can't really tell a wheel stud is damaged without removing it to chk the threads. If it is really damaged you should see how it's stripped. A sure way to know it's f'n up is when you remove the lug, it will be really hard.

OP, having one broken isn't too big a deal but like said I wouldn't drive on it for a long time. Puts more stress on the other ones which could lead to premature failure as well. Replace it ASAP but don't worry about anything too severe as long as you address it soon.

super4

totally fine. how did it get damaged? of it just broke off?

crazie

i've been driving liek that for about a month and it has now developed a squeek grinding noise. went to the dealer to see how much it would be. He told me $250 cuz they have to take off the bearing, hub, rotor idk, but couple days before i went to r n s strauss and they told me $42 for labor and i supply parts.

LuvMyTSX

Happened to me, too. The local tire shop I had been using to swap summer and winter wheels lost one of my lugs last year and didn't tell me about it. I saw it was missing and meant to get a new one, but put it off. Well, the uncovered stud rusted and needed to be replaced. I was only told when I went to my regular dealer to have my wheels swapped (because it actually was cheaper at the dealer ). So I'd been riding around for about a year without the lug. I did notice a small difference when it was replaced, mainly less vibration.

Nogard13

I haven't done it in the TSX, but I had a Honda Civic a few years back that only had three good studs on the driver side rear tire (there were 4 and I stripped one). I drove around like that for almost a year before I traded the car in. I wasn't worried because, when I was young, my dad had a Mazda 323 that drove on 3 good studs up front for over 5 years and it never got fixed or presented a problem.

Just get to it when you get to it.

gwiffer

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Wheel studs go bad in two ways. They can have thread problems (stripped/cross-threaded) or they can be excessively stretched. When stripped or cross-threaded, the stud will be unable to accept a lug nut. When excessively stretched (due to over-tightening), the lug nut will always loosen. If this happens to multiple studs, there is a potential for wheel vibration or even worse, the loss of a wheel. Anything that is suspension related should be taken care of asap. If you are driving in urban traffic (<45mph), I do not predict any immediate catastrophic failure, especially since this is a rear lug that sees significantly less load on a FWD vehicle.

I recommend to always use a proper torque wrench and torque specs for all lug nuts. Clean the studs and lugs before installation. If you are changing between winter/summer wheels seasonally or are a wheel whore, you should definitely be attune to proper wheel stud/lug nut maintenance.