I got my summer tire/wheel set ready for the SS. Adam’s Deep Wheel Cleaner on the wheels and Meguiar’s D143 on the tires. Scrubbed the tires three times to be sure they were ready for McKee’s Tire Coating. Wheels then got cleaned with CarPro Tar X and washed with Griot’s Garage Foaming Surface Prep. Rinsed off, dried, then clayed with Mother’s yellow clay using Mother’s Detail Spray as a lube. Final rinse, then wiped down twice with IPA. After they air dried for a couple of hours I coated the wheels with GTechinq C5 Wheel Armor and put CarPro Perl on the tires. For the life of me I can’t find my McKee’s Tire Coating. I have a partial bottle and an unopened one. Looked in the garage then the basement then the trunk bag I use to move product from basement to garage and vice versa. Even looked in the SS trunk, nope, they’re gone.
After dinner I went in the garage, set the parking brake, chocked a wheel and placed the floor jack in position and went to loosen my first lug nut. Mind you I have a nice set of Matco tools, no Harbor Freight for me. That first nut was tight but that’s expected as the SS wheels are torqued to 140 lbs. Grabbed the 18” breaker bar and proceeded to snap my 1/2” socket drive like a chicken bone.
W. T. F?
Needless to say I am livid.
Looks like the dumb @$$ at my local Chevy dealership over torqued the wheels when they were rotated two weeks ago.
Lesson learned: if you want it done right you have to do it yourself. After my wife takes the SS to Discount Tire & they swap them for me I’ll do my own tire rotations and oil/ filter changes. Please note I’ve worked on cars my whole life: brake jobs, panel beating, tire rotations, tune ups (back in the day), rebuilt a few carburetors (also back in the day!), exhaust work and even an engine swap so, no, this ain’t my first rodeo!
Anyway this was just the icing on the cluster fu** cake that was my weekend. I’m
seriously looking forward to going to the office tomorrow...
.5) 1 part Sio2 spray and .5 part distilled water, so it was down to 7.5% Sio2 ratio. I did about 3 sprays into The Roman towel and a couple squirts just on the hood and wiped it in, then buffed with a plush mf towel that I think is some Microfiber Madness towel that turned pink in the wash many monthes ago, came out great! The temp down here is atleast 64 and what a difference for this product in THIS temp. Well you guys know me, did the entire car with it except the glass as the TAC system Rain Coat was applied earlier. It's now protected even further till i can do an all out paint correction and coating in a couple weeks (I HOPE
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lol.
while I was using it!!! 
while I was using it!!!
