Nuke

ANY shop that has touched your wheels may have over-torqued the studs. The rare times that I allow a shop to touch my wheels, it's only if I'm allowed in the shop and watch them HAND TORQUE the nuts. Otherwise, yours failed due to a defect.

loots06

Center punch and a hammer to fix your wheel screw (aka wheel stud).

Entaille

agreed.. you should be concerned with why one broke. it is not a common thing for a wheel stud to just snap unless it was overtorqued or abused some how.

I'd see what the others are torqued down to and go from there.

baddog671

As others have said, a nice hammer and punch tool and it pop right out. Or an old screwdriver you don't like anymore.

Feel for the opposite end of the wheel stud on the back side of the rotor. If you can find it with your fingers, then you won't have to remove the brakes or anything. Just the wheel...

Proper torque measurement is 100 ft/lbs. You can buy torque wrenches for a decent price most of the time.

surfbum7190

happened to me a couple years ago. took it to a dealership and it cost like 70 bucks

Hinojosa

fixed it for 30 bucks took it to a shop, 2/5 were overtorqued 2/5 were very loose and only 1 was okay

baddog671

Lugnuts are actually pretty difficult to overtighten to the point of breaking studs. They take 100 ft/lbs no problem, you could probably put 140/150 on them an still not break.

Most people can't pull 150 on a torque wrench, so it sounds like maybe someone used an impact gun with either (a) an improper torque stick or (b) no torque stick and did it by "feel".

Derf00

I agree, either they just cranked on it until it was "tight" or they used a straight impact gun with no torque limiter. With an impact gun it's not just the amount of force that's applied (Ft/lbs) it's how it's applied (Hammered). How its applied puts more stress on a stud than anything and why it's not recommended to use one for tightening.