Hi. I bought a Connect (03) my first car! I love it to death and refuse to part with it despite it's multiple problems. I was wondering if anyone had experience of wheel nuts that seem to be very bad quality. When I change the wheels or sevice the brakes and try to screw the nuts back on, there are always.... ALWAYS two or three nuts that spin having had the threads chewed through like butter. The nuts and the bolts are genuine Ford parts from my local Ford centre. They cost 8 EUros each and every time I change the tyres I end up spendy about 40 Euros to replace the nuts (sometimes the bolt as well but not always). I'm not over tightening them. I do it by hand and 'don't' jump on the wratchet but always end up with teo or three nuts that need to be thrown out. Are the Nuts just made from a particularly soft metal or is there an alternative type of nut that I can buy because I'm sick of buying crap that doesn't work from Ford?
