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two nights ago driving home, i noticed a clunking noise coming from the front of the car. pulled over, got out and checked all the lug nuts since this car's had wheels loosen before*. sure enough, passenger-side lugs on on front were slightly loose and one popped while tightening. the other four snugged up fine (or so i thought). rear was a little loose too, but not bad. drove home the rest of the way without any more noise. fast forward to this morning, i was dropping the kid off at school and on the way noticed the clunking again so on my way back, pulled over to check the lug nuts. with wrench in hand, i went straight to the passenger-side front tire, took one look (maybe two), got back in the warmth of my vehicle and called for a tow. the wheel was hanging on with two lugs and three broken off studs. so i got it home and got the car up, wheel off (other two lug nuts came off without issue and, to the naked eye, look OK). removed the caliper no problem, but the lower bolt of the brake caliper frame snapped near the head. the top bolt came off fine so i tried to pivot it out of the way with no success. the bolt will have to be extracted since most of it is still holding the pieces together. if i wail on that frame hard enough, will it eventually swing out of the way so i can break some more parts? is my only hope to extract the bolt? * back in the spring, with my aluminum summer wheels on, every lug nut loosened and the passenger side was worse with one lug gone missing from the rear. i highly suspected vandalism or pre-theft as i had pulled a front wheel off and torqued it just before that happened so at the very least, that wheel should have been tight. anyhow, it was bad enough that there was noticeable clunking. fortunately, none of the wheels came off, unfortunately, my wife was driving the car for who knows how long before i tightened them up. i suspect that incident didn't help the wheel studs last any longer so possibly here we are today...