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Originally Posted by Henn28 (Post 1249675)

How does that snap!? Has the plate been on and off and the bolts reused many times? I reused mine a few times and then replaced them with OE bolts as I started get nervous. Years ago I took the car to a shop for suspension work and they neglected to properly torque these bolts. The car made a nasty racket amd was clearly unsafe.

Crazy right? No idea if they had been removed and retorqued in past. Tech only had a couple in stock so I had him replace just the one. Next time I have any suspension work done I will replace all 6.

Only takes one time with impact to greatly over torque a 10mm bolt.

"3 ugga duggaa" just about enough. They torque to about 90 N·m if memory serves and that's tty. I think they are 65 N·m plus 90° but i would look it up before applying that rule.

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