Why left hand lug nuts?

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re: Why left hand lug nuts?

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I just picked up this month's copy of Car Craft that's been sitting on my desk for about 4-5 days and found this little blurb:

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re: Why left hand lug nuts?

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I think the did it just to drive us nuts, not that it would be a long enough trip to worry about my tires coming off. :lol: or are they already off? :?
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they did it so the right handed ones wouldn't get lonely
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Re: re: Why left hand lug nuts?

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68F250 wrote:Commercial trucks today still use left & right hand threads on the front and rear wheels.
That is slowly dying out the newer "hub piloted" wheels are all right hand thread. I think the Left hand thread was just to confuse people lol jk
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