I had an interesting experience this week

The shop should really be thankful for not quoting their name… By the way as you said, no one was injured.

120nm for twelve mil thread (bolt)

talks like its easy to know torque for car, does exist somewhere to find these figueres

Boosted Boris without an Accent *gasp

If there is anything to take any from this, it is that there are poorly trained monkeys working at tyre shops (or mechanic shops) all across the world.
Fortunately the difference between tight enough to hold the wheel on without undoing and so tight the fasteners break is quite a bit, which is probably why the shop says they always do it that way and hasnt had a failure, probably not had a high performance car on a track before.

Lol

Can someone forward this on to old Eddie boy

I always use a torque wrench and never had comebacks. But did have a lot of non specialized shops screw ups come over here with over torqued lug nuts, snapped studs, and even cross threaded studs. Sad to see some shops have no passion.

Any F&F fan will tell you “tight is tight” yo

When weight reduction goes wrong