These tips have been in use for 5 months. Not particularly impressed. First, while installing winter tires, two lugs on my front hub broke off, resulting in catastrophic hub failure (and I installed a new hub and bearing at my own expense). It's possible the shop that installed my summer tires twisted them, but those lugs should have sheared off the way they did. Second, the plating on the lugs wears off fairly easily simply by rubbing them with the bushing. The edges of all were covered inβ¦