This was a poorly executed design by Ford and the consumer (I) should not be responsible for the repair.

I was having my F150 serviced at the Jarrett Gordon Ford, winter Haven, Fl dealership and the tires rotated when I was told about the aluminum lug nuts swelling and they could not rotate my tires or replace my brake pads. It was necessary for me to pay to have the aluminum lug nuts removed and replaced with steel lug nuts.

Had I been on the road (trip) and needed a tire repair my truck would needed to be towed.

I was not aware of this design and ford should have did more research and never used aluminum lug nuts.

I paid $ 215.00 to have the lug nuts changed to steel lug nuts.

Curtis Wall

I discovered I had a flat tire, at home in my driveway. When I went to put on the spare I found that the 7/8ths lug nut wrench that came with the truck Did Not Fit the lug nuts. I attempted to buy a larger wrench but could not find one. I called a tow truck to get the wheel off - it took him 15 minutes to get the six nuts off, they kept getting stuck in the socket of his impact driver.

He told me the aluminum jacket on the nuts was notorious for swelling due to heat and/or freezing with water inside. Bad design, a built in problem for Ford customers.

I do forestry work in remote locations. Luckily this happened at home. If I had had a flat tire up on some mountainside 10 or 20 miles from the pavement in mid-winter we could have been looking at a survival situation.

I am going to replace all 24 of these faulty lug nuts with straight steel nuts, at some cost. I haven't checked into the warranty status yet.