Bought truck with wrong stripped lugnuts

We just bought a 2014 Tundra from a dealership 3 hours away and drove it home to discover a steering wheel shake at 65-80mph. We looked into it ourselves and went to assess by rotating the tires and upon doing so noticed the lugnuts were the wrong size and stripped completely! They are supposed to be 22mm but all but 2 of them were 24mm. This is what’s causing the wheel shake and it’s so upsetting it was sold to us this way. I contacted the dealership but they basically said to bring it to a service center, which doesn’t open till the weekday. This is a major hazard and I am not sure what else to make out of this except they did not do their proper checks and inspection of the vehicle before selling it. We are coming up on our 5 day/250 mile warranty (if not we already hit the 250 miles from driving it back 3 hours) and I will hopefully speak the manager tomorrow. But we are so bewildered-why would someone switch out the lugnuts for the wrong size and strip them? And isn’t this something that should have been caught during tests and a mechanical workup of the vehicle before selling? Too bad we weren’t able to test drive it on the freeway or we’d be able to identify the steering wheel shake before we bought the truck. Open to any thoughts/ideas… thanks.

 

Thanks for your feedback. The guy at the dealership asked us to drive it back and didn’t offer to tow it. However he did say we could bring it to an affiliated service station nearby. But simply driving it is a risk. Fortunately nothing happened to us driving it carrying kids and all. It’s an unfortunate thing how this can go unnoticed. I suggested in a review they do test drives over 65mph to double check for related issues. Horrible. I hope we do find a resolution, wondering if they are accountable and what other questions/accommodation I should ask them when speaking with them again.

 

Is the safety inspection something we should have done at the dealership together with the salesman before purchasing? Because we did no such thing. Thanks again for your help.

 

Was it a certified pre-owned? Its funny they are supposed to be gone over perfectly with some 160 point inspection etc.. I test drove a couple before I bought mine and was checking one out and the radio was super low and could barely hear it, drove another one that just did not want to come out of 4wheel drive in a reasonable amount of time. I told them and they were like, no we went over and all good. Got home and got a call that oh we looked and the one didn't have an amp, guy must have removed before trading in. The other one they said was fine. It wasn't! figure certified should at least pass a customers test drive