Lug nut stuck on broken wheel stud - cannot remove wheel

Just remember, there are a few on here that know EVERYTHING!
Their way is the ONLY way! If you don't agree with them and exactly their way,
they attack you! Sometimes passively, sometimes aggressively.
nivekonbass, you've been given several ideas and methodes. It is your car,
proceed in any methode you choose. I know there are other's near you, I haven't
notice anyone offering to come over and help you out.
Whichever methode you choose, I hope it works out and costs you the least amount of money
and heartache.

 

So If i got this right if you put a socket wrench on that bolt it just free wheels in both directions? It stripped stripped a little dead spot on the hub bolt when it bottomed out or it broke off the chrome nut cover and its now stripped to the nut. Mondo power there dude.

Your screwed there.
Its impossible to get to obviously given how sunken it is. I would try the loose wheel pull it out as hard as I can and and hope for a bite.

I would say screw it run on 4 lugs but that almost guarantee's a flat tire down road you now cant get off at least with my luck.

You can see the nut head is pretty beat up its edges look smashed like it was severely over tightened. problem with your method is unless you got a good socket set with you and a breaker bar and you get a flat you will not be able to get your nuts off the lugs on the side of the road with them slammed like that.

Tire shop like you said is my first stop. I have never used a electric impact gun on my wheels for this very reason and I have a 1/2 Dewalt Electric that will snap that nut right off the stud if I'm not careful. Electric impacts are beasts as you are now finding out and you cannot feel if the nut is cross threaded either its going to sink it no matter what and when it does it will bottom out and strip on the lug.

Best to just lubricate the bolt threads with synthetic grease hand thread the nut and tighten it up with a breaker bar a little. If I get new tires installed when I get home I break them loose with a 4 foot extension pipe and tighten them back up with one good tighten. Tire shops slam them so tight if your stuck using the pos wrench that comes with the car forget it. Been there done that on the side of the road never ever again.

I keep a 1/2 breaker bar and nut socket socket set that fits the lug nut and a 4 foot piece of 3/4 emt pipe in the trunk of all my cars. The emt pipe slides over the breaker bar. Easy no sweat removal.

Good Luck.

 

These are great places. You can buy tires and rims and take them to these guys for installation - at much lower prices than Walmart or Costco - and the guys are real!! Good find!

 

The important this is it's back to normal!

 

imho, 99% chance he lifted the car, positioned the bad lug at 6 o'clock, removed the other 4 lugs, put the (impact) wrench on the bad lug, pulled the top of the tire away from the car hard to put pressure on the stud and then brrrrt, just popped it loose.
Still curious about any hub or stud damage.

 

I stayed away from this thread to give others the opportunity to give their suggestions.

Here are mone, based on a professional repair shop and the well regarded videos posyed by Raiman Ray's repairs.

 

What a coinkidink!! I had this very thing happen today. LLug nut was half way on and the stud started spinning.

We tried the old trick of pulling on the tire while using the impact wrench. No progress no matter how hard or in what direction we pried.

Here's what finally did it. We knocked the top off the acorn nut to get access to the end of the stud. Then one guy held the impact socket (1/2" drive) on the nut with fairly large Channel Locks while I drilled using a bit just large enough to cut out the threads. It also just happened to just fit inside the 1/2" square hole in the socket. It took some time and quite a bit of WD-40 to keep things cool and slippery, but I finally drilled all the way through those threads and stud to the point where the nut came off. Then it was a matter of replacing the wheel bearing so the customer would have five lug nuts on that wheel.

All just so I could do the little 2-minute job of replacing the sway bar link.

 

I had the exact same problem. Mine is a 2010 Gen 3 with alloy wheels and the chrome plastic capped lug nuts.

Just one lug nut got jammed onto stud. Wheel was 1/2" from Rotor so I had some clearance.
Tried everything mentioned to keep stud from turning while trying to spin lug off nut with impact. No dice.

Tried cutting stud with my Bauer (Harbor Freight) mini Sawzall. Blades keep breaking due to bending them to get into the space.

Based on several referenced videos, Finally, just took a center punch, popped a dent in the plastic cap covering lug nut and used my el cheapo Harbor Freight Drill Index and Harbor Freight Drill to drill out stud. (Yellow colored Drill Index). Used 5 different sizes unit I worked up to slightly more than 1/2" (biggest drill that would go into drill chuck). Took about 15 minutes. Drill for 30 seconds and then wash it out with WD40 for lubrication/cooling.
Worked like a champ. Thanks to all the thoughts and videos. What did we do before YouTube