Are you sure the 'frozen' lug nuts are not locking lug nuts?
Determine if the 'chrome' lug nuts are really just a thin metal cap
over a steel nut underneath.
If so, drilling through the cap will certainly allow you to apply
penetrating oil to the studs/nuts. Removing the thin cap* and then
using a 6-point socket that fits the 'real' nut underneath might allow
you to apply loosening force more effectively also.
* But I don't know how you'd remove the 'cap' with the lug nuts in the
wheel...
Eric Russell
STOC #2860
Mebane, NC
http://home.mebtel.net/~ejrussell
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Godley"
> Any ideas on what I might try in the interim. I was thinking of
> drilling a small hole in the rounded head of the chromed lug...they
> are recessed in to the alloy wheels....and soaking with PB blaster
> for a couple of days.
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