have you tried it the other way? I spent a good few hours trying to undo the bolt that goes in the middle of the drum brake on a escort i had once, annoyed me sooo much that i took it to a garage to ask them to do it with their impact wrench, with no luck.
Then i tried turning it the other way, on the right side of the car those bolts were a left handed thread.
Man i felt daft

 

no, they are all the same thread, just reread your post. you drive forwards, so it's designed that way to keep them from loosening even more while normal driving.

 

yeh noob mistake, the garage didnt latch on either though

 

that's a good thing though, that shows you you should not take your car to them in the future.

 

yeh im reluctant to take my car to the garage anyways, the only time i will is when i havent got access to something like a tire machine, but then again they cant go wrong with a tire change

 

wel i got it done. turns out i w as goin the wrong way because i was under the car so everything was backwards or something

 

actually, i've seen/heard stories about garages and tire changes.. my dad used to work in one back in the day and when they'd go to balance the tires they wouldn't even bother picking out the rocks and other crap that was in the tires.. in other words, they aren't getting a proper balance. also (not a major thing) but some wont even bother taking the stickers off the tires soyou'll see the car driving down the road with stickers flappin around on the tires... very tacky if you ask me. thankfully my dadwelded together his own little mechanism to break the bead on his own tires so i was able to change mine on my own.. no garage

 

to add to tire changes, there is a **** load more than that can happen. my dad took my sis' vw bug to walmart for 4 new tires and balancing. he dropped it off, came back, paid, got the keys, walked outside, inspected the job to see how they looked. BINGO, they assigned the biggest dumbass to change the tires, he wasn't even properly trained to change tires, but they still let him do it. the idiot wrecked every single wheel, they were all trash, they scratched and marred all the wheels. get this, they tried to say they were already like that when they got them to change the tires, they didn't even balance them correctly. we had to fight those ******** the whole way to get the money for new ones with centercaps. we ended up making money off the deal though. oh yeah, the time before, my mom had an oil change at walmart and they forgot to put the fuggen oil cap back on. i swear there are some of the dumbest people that work at walmart. a monkey can do a better job at changing oil than them.

 

The last dude who changed the oil on that car musta been a fricken body builder because that was on there incredibly tight. and the filter was in a kinda funky spot anyways so i couldnt really get any good leverage on it either. but hey we all gotta learn sometime.

 

let me guess dude...were you workin on a Ford Windstar or something? I remember some Fords were a PITA to get at the filter. Not as bad as some of the European cars tho. (used to work at a quickie lube place back in the day...)