Wheel nut removal hell

 

Had a zed in whilst the owner waited for us to look at a nosiy front suspension, the car had been looked at previously at another garage and the wheels removed and refitted.

 

Unfortunately they had clearly used an air gun to tighten the wheel nuts, they were solid! managed to coax three off but two were not for budging.

 

Eventually with the largest breaker bar we had the nuts sheered off! not good but at least we had access to drill them out then, 2 hours to be honest of a ball ache job, the main issue to not damage the alloys.

 

After they were released we had to refit new studs which was the easy bit, once done all was as it should be but what a pain just because of a silly mistake with an air gun.

 

Jeff TT

 

 

 

 

 

I hate air guns with a passion. they always over tighten nuts :rant:

I agree the last time the previous owner of my zed had the wheels of they where done back up with an air gun nightmare to move even my gorilla sized neighbor struggled to move them

I hate air guns also where wheel nuts are concerned, you can sometimes end up with a nut either end. lol

I have settled with a tyre shop that only uses torque wrenches.

Still take off the locking nuts myself mind.

i had the same thing happen on a iroc z28 i had ,not much fun on the garage floor then i had to wait for parts from the states to get it sorted

I hate air guns with a passion. they always over tighten nuts :rant:

 

As always Dave the problem lies with the operator of the air gun not the gun itself.

IF they are set properly then they can save a tyre fitter a lot of time.

my local independent tyre fitter uses an air gun all the time but its set lower than the correct torque setting and he then finishes them of by hand with a torque wrench.

As always Dave the problem lies with the operator of the air gun not the gun itself.

IF they are set properly then they can save a tyre fitter a lot of time.

my local independent tyre fitter uses an air gun all the time but its set lower than the correct torque setting and he then finishes them of by hand with a torque wrench.

 

Spot on.

 

Jeff

As always Dave the problem lies with the operator of the air gun not the gun itself.

IF they are set properly then they can save a tyre fitter a lot of time.

my local independent tyre fitter uses an air gun all the time but its set lower than the correct torque setting and he then finishes them of by hand with a torque wrench.

 

Totally agree. But this is wales boyo and they can only fix tractors :lol::lol:

 

I never take my car to a tyre shop any more as i also dont trust them jacking up my car. I take the alloys to them. To fit my 2 rears they wanted £40 just for fitting :rolleyes: