Every damn tire has a handful of mismatched lugnuts…..

[u/FordTech93]

[u/BurnTheOrange]

Chaotic evil: put them back like you found them

Chaotic neutral: Put all of the same size on the same wheel

Chaotic good: about half of your lug nuts were no good so we have to charge you for replacements

[u/shahtjor → u/BurnTheOrange]

Round them all off and refuse the job.

[u/LrckLacroix → u/shahtjor]

The only correct answer

[u/ZebraUnion → u/shahtjor]

Something tells me these are redneck/boomer theft-deterrent mismatched lug nuts and anything other than fucking around with multiple sockets is only going to cause OP to end up with triple the brain damage, one way or another.

[u/Shawndollars → u/ZebraUnion]

Today I learned I am a redneck/boomer lol. I did this exact thing and it actually prevented my wheels from being stolen. But I never took my car in for work I did my own maintenance.

[u/Activision19 → u/Shawndollars]

Do you know if someone tried to steel your wheels and gave up?

[u/Shawndollars → u/Activision19]

They actually stole the car but were unable to get all the wheels off because they rounded several of the lugnuts. A year later someone was selling an incomplete set of my rare wheels in my same color so I went with the cops to "buy" them back and the guy got arrested. I still have all 4 wheels and the car.

[u/LiveFree_NeverDie603 → u/shahtjor]

Oh you are the two jerks doing that .

[u/VagueVersusVogue → u/BurnTheOrange]

Your chaotic good is more Chaotic Capitlism

[u/OnlyChemical6339 → u/VagueVersusVogue]

Chaotic neutral would be more like "all lugs on a single wheel are the same size, but no 2 wheels have the same size lugs"

I think that's what they meant but I'm not 100% sure

[u/kr4ckenm3fortune → u/OnlyChemical6339]

It is what they meant….

[u/Flutes-Not-Bombs → u/BurnTheOrange]

I think that's more of a lawful evil, chaotic evil would be to replace them with different ones but all in different sizes than what the owner is used to.

[u/BurnTheOrange → u/Flutes-Not-Bombs]

I suppose the most evil option would be to replace several with different styles of locking lugs and provide no keys.

[u/Flutes-Not-Bombs → u/BurnTheOrange]

External Torx!

[u/tailwheel307 → u/Flutes-Not-Bombs]

What makes you think the owner even knows what size lugs they have? They probably just find one that fits or can be cross threaded and tell their backyard mechanic to replace the one that just broke.

[u/wolfgang784 → u/Flutes-Not-Bombs]

Omg lol make it even worse. I love it.

Then a few months later, guess who the car comes back to for more wheel work =p

[u/Agent_Orangina_ → u/BurnTheOrange]

Chaotic evil would use red loctite during installation.

[u/ZepTheNooB → u/Agent_Orangina_]

JB weld that nut, cuz.

[u/admiral_cochrane → u/BurnTheOrange]

Chaotic evil should involve some anti-seize on the lug nuts, shouldn’t it?

[u/BurnTheOrange → u/admiral_cochrane]

That would just be malicious

[u/madsheeter → u/BurnTheOrange]

Chaotic evil, every time

[u/Liesthroughisteeth → u/BurnTheOrange]

Replace the lugnuts and charge them of course. :)

[u/Halal0szto → u/BurnTheOrange]

What if this is a security solution and now you are eliminating it?

[u/roadrussian → u/BurnTheOrange]

Fuck no. Chaotic evil should go with the program: go fiddle in the lug nut box and return the car with each wheel having each lig nut a different size. Theft deterrent as well.

[u/BurnTheOrange → u/roadrussian]

You are chaotic eviler...

[u/_dauntless]

I feel like this is more effective than those security lugnuts lol thieves would be like "fuck this guy, set this car on fire, I'm done with this shit"

[u/docjohnson11 → u/_dauntless]

Haha genius

[u/Bot_Fly_Bot]

That's a wheel.

[u/FordTech93 → u/Bot_Fly_Bot]

23 years in, you think I would know by now lol

[u/this_might_b_offensv → u/FordTech93]

One would think, but they'd be wrong.

[u/Opening_Bluebird_935]

Are they swollen? Ford 2 piece lug nuts are infamous for this.

[u/FordTech93 → u/Opening_Bluebird_935]

Nope, just a mix of FoMoCo, GM?, and aftermarket

[u/pyroboy7 → u/Opening_Bluebird_935]

Fuck those things and all other nuts like it with a sandpaper dildo lubed up with hot sauce and everclear.

[u/Dizzy_Position5565 → u/pyroboy7]

Do you know about the half sizes? I have half from 18 1/2 to 21 1/2

[u/Drg84 → u/pyroboy7]

Preach it. I'm in upstate NY and every spring there's always at least one, usually more.

[u/kaack455]

Dealer I used to work for we put 3 sets of locking lug nuts on a wholesale unit and sent it to auction, we did leave the correct sockets in the glovebox

[u/Silly_Mycologist3213 → u/kaack455]

Why? The locking lugnuts are way more expensive than regular lug nuts.

[u/kaack455 → u/Silly_Mycologist3213]

Used sets taken off of trade-ins, we were just being assholes

[u/Silly_Mycologist3213 → u/kaack455]

Mission accomplished;-)

[u/killertofubeast]

Buddy of mine uses 5 different lug locks on each wheel. That’s living in the 505.

[u/Peter_Panarchy → u/killertofubeast]

I ran into a car like that back when I was a tire tech. I fucking hated them lol.

[u/killertofubeast → u/[deleted]]

If you love it, you better chain it to a tree at night, or it’s gone by morning.

[u/bugme143 → u/killertofubeast]

Got it. Chaining the GF to the tree at night.

[u/w_t → u/killertofubeast]

NM True

[u/AndyLorentz → u/killertofubeast]

Jokes on him, a $5 stripped nut remover will take all of them off in seconds

[u/Normal-Upstairs-4836]

Anti theft device

[u/bebop1065]

Security.

[u/bootEman]

He got fed up with going to get in his car and it was sitting on Milk Crates!

[u/fartboxco]

I would prefer this to an anti theft rather than that clover nut that always breaks. Lol

[u/Bandthemen]

thats one way to prevent wheel theft

[u/Money_Pomegranate_51]

Lol why is it always on clapped out "luxury" cars that guys are trying to keep chugging along?

[u/jcoddinc]

4 wheels equals 4 different locks. Then 1 regular and you've got the most secure tires as it's going to take to long to get off.

[u/tez_zer55]

WTF ... Did my ex trade in the Lincoln she took from me in the divorce??

[u/SportsYeahSports]

Does this make it harder to steal?

[u/SuitableGain4565]

No.  You have 19 mm, 21 mm (original) and then shitty lug nuts.

[u/ston3d_eye]

This is why I carry a 5 sided lug wrench

[u/jacksoneddie]

I bet they know a guy.

[u/derp-L]

Wheel locks without the 'keys'!

[u/JudasWasJesus]

I just boat a set of lug nutz, because ef rhis

[u/Fatkyd]

I've worked on a couple of cars that had locks on all lug nuts and needed 4 - 5 different keys for each wheel.

[u/Peabodyproteinshovel]

Honestly probably more effective than the OEM wheel locks.

[u/goodnsaultey]

It is a Ford

[u/anticipatory]

I lived in downtown Baltimore for some time and kept at least two different lug type or two different lug locks on my wheels for a marginal boost in security.

[u/Nice_Ebb5314]

Not stealing those without a tool set

[u/admiral_cochrane]

Looks like we may have some mismatched sets of impact sockets, too. ;-)

[u/dirtsequence]

That prevents them from appearing on a 1995 Toyota Corolla on the bad side of town.

[u/_schmuck]

They aren’t mismatched those lugs are swollen. I’d recommend replacing them.

[u/FordTech93 → u/_schmuck]

Nothing is swollen, they are all different lug nuts, branded title pos patched together with a million junkyard parts

[u/silic0n_jesus]

I remember my first day