Can wheels get stuck to the hub?

My friend has a 99 SEL with the 5 spoke alloys. We were trying to change a flat but could not get the wheel to budge after removing the lugs. I've changed many flats before but have never seen this happen.

It was in the mid 20's that night. Could the temperature have anything to do with it?

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Could it be possible that there was ice frozen in there holding the wheel to the hub???? Just an off the wall thought, probably impossible. I know my left rear wheel hub needs to be replaced, but the wheel is still able to be taken off easily. I've never heard of this happening.

 

I didn't really consider it much because there hadn't been any precipitation around. No snow or rain, just dry cold, where the street are all dry too. And he definitely wouldn't have any residual moisture from a car wash or anything (dirty!!!)

 

this happened on my honda be4 ....leave one lug nut on ... n kick the tire ontop..n it loosen !!!

 

Really? Because I definitely wanted to give that thing a swift... Actually, I did kick it a bit after the two of us had taken turns yanking and pushing and pulling and saying mean things to it , but it wouldn't budge.

Do you know what causes this?

 

.......did u try ..leave one lug nut on the bottom..n kiced the top part of the tire real hard.... didnt work...whoa....maybe somethin is bent ..n is holdin the tire in place...?

 

No. This particular method didn't occur to me at the time (last week). It was still jacked up when we were wrestling with it, so I only kicked it so hard. You can bet I'm doing that the next time though.

But why does this happen? Someone said something about the metal oxidizing and fusing together, but it didn't sound quite right...

 

I had a similar problem about a month ago when switching over to snow tires. Rear wheel wouldn't budge, even with the swift kick to the top of the tire. Trick is to kick the inside bottom of the tire (kick outwards). Comes right off. For safety sake, put a jackstand under the car before you put your leg under the car and kick!! I guess if you on the side of the road with a flat, and no stand, just be careful!!

Mr friend had the exact same thing happen on his 99 Civic Si. Don't know what causes it.

 

Rust from the disk brake hub seizes to the wheel making it sometimes very fun to remove wheels.....Hondas are notorious for this because their OEM rotors rust on the hubs even more than Nissans.

A popular trend in cars recently (namely the new Toyotas and Volvos and a few others) is cadmium plating rotors, which will cause them not to rust at the hub and make it easier on both the home mechanic and the dealer for removing wheels.


Yet Nissan still isn't doing this.....but I'm not exactly surprised either with their track record......

 

Any available remedy?

 

Apply a thin coating of grease to the hub area that contacts the wheel before you put it back on.

 

That's the first thing that occured to me, but then I thought it couldn't be that simple...