I remember an old mechanic sarcastically saying this when I was a kid and as as he worked on an old car that had wheel nuts that did up the other way on one side of the car.
I read the first answer there, but it didn't answer the related question: why don't all cars have that weird setup now? Is there a modern design feature that we have nowadays that allows for normal threading on the left-side wheels that keeps them from coming loose?
> Improvements in metallurgy, changes in brake design, first to finned drums and then to disks, and changes in wheel nut architecture, from flat washer to conical design have effectively reduced the problem.
I remember an old mechanic sarcastically saying this when I was a kid and as as he worked on an old car that had wheel nuts that did up the other way on one side of the car.
It really pissed him off.
A quick search seems to show that this was a thing. https://www.quora.com/Why-did-the-old-Chrysler-cars-have-lug...