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I believe that's the series with Graham Hancock.
I personally enjoy the heck
out of Hancock's work.
80% of Commenters will dismiss ANYTHING that he does simply because "He doesn't have a degree in Archaeology !"
Or Astronomy.
Or Oceanology.
They base their arguments on credentials and ignore that frequently Hancock is merely raising valid questions.

Interesting interviews on Rogan's podcast.

Them

VR3 wrote: »

Who is tightening lug nug nuts every 100 miles?

Not every 100 miles. Just once. After mounting a tire on a car (at least when the tires are on alloy wheels), one is supposed to check torque after about 50 miles and re-torque to spec. The place we get our tires (which is very good) insists on it... but, on the bright side, they'll essentially drop everything & check "in real time" so to speak when one brings a car back for re-torquing.

It's not a bad idea to check torque now and again, though.

The tire place also rotate tires they sold for free and will also put on snow tires they sold for free -- and that's the problem. I did my own rotation this time because, despite my best intentions to take the car in and get 'em done while Mrs. H was in Africa... I didn't Now they're hella busy with snow tire installations, and so I decided to do 'em myself. I will probably throw Mrs. H's snows on, too, for the same reason.

My tires are the Michelin Crossclimate 2 which are really nice all weather, all year (!?!) tires -- but they need to be rotated every 3k miles, or one won't get the tread life of which they're capable. I take Michelin & the tire place at their words.

As a road warrior, the balancing is equally important. That's why I only buy tires from discount tire as they rotate and balance for free for the life of the tire

On the puddle jumper I torque every 25 - 50 - 100 - 500 miles.when rotating wheels & tires I torque the SpiderTrax 1 inch spacers every time I rotate @ 5000 miles. This also has 1 inch Bilstein lift on front & stock on rear w/Bilstein shocks all around it. I torque every single thing as I service it myself. No one drives this but me. If it fails it's on me. I carry torque wrench in truck. The tool box weighs more then the truck

I played with this a bit. Don't know exactly what you Googled, but,

"crosstrek lug nut torque"

The torque for a Subaru Crosstrek's lug nuts is 89 ft/lbs. If you don't have a torque wrench, you can use the lug wrench that came with the car, as it's designed to prevent over-torquing. After installing new tires, you should re-tighten the lug nuts after 50–100 miles for aluminum rims.

Over- or under-tightening lug nuts can be dangerous and damaging.


BUT

"2019 subaru crosstrek lug nut torque"

The torque for a Subaru Crosstrek's lug nuts is 31 ft/lbs. It's important to note that over- or under-tightening wheel lug nuts can be dangerous and damaging.


Aye aye aye. Or AI AI AI.

so... I rotated the tires on my Subaru this morning.
Since I am lazy*, rather than look it up in the car manual, I googled the lug nut torque spec for the car.
Google's AI was, of course, happy to give me a quick answer:

Umm, yeah, no.
Nice try, Google AI!**
I looked it up in the manual.
89 ft-lb.

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* Lazy but, fortunately for me, also skeptical.
** I actually think that the current rash (and I do mean rash) of AI gizmos is deliberately playing stupid to lull us into a false sense of security before they kill us all to make paper clips.