Cut, Squash, Twirl

A second or less.  That’s all it took to cut, squash and twirl a piece of metal of a length of steel rod and you have a wheel stud.

 

So why did something that probably cost less than $0.01 to manufacture require me to pay $15.  To add insult to injury there was a two week wait for it to be delivered from the other side of the continent as there were none in Western Australia. 

If parts are so scarce for a common Isuzu I’d hate to be an owner of a Chinese EV.  There are so few of them and the models change so rapidly; sourcing replacement parts must be a nightmare.

Why do we need a wheel stud?   One on our Isuzu is damaged.  Apparently the thread is stripped which the garage identified during the recent 75,000km service.  They would have replaced it but there was no stock in Western Australia. 

I enquired about the time it would take to replace the stud and was informed about an hour.   The garage hourly labour rate is $140.   So $155 to replace a wheel stud.   I’ll do it myself.  But not until the weather is cooler.