All of the local tyre places seem to have torque wrenches. The trick, it seems, is to use all of the ugga duggas and then use it to make sure the bolts are at least 100nm.
Well I'm shocked; I genuinely have never seen one in use in East London/Essex at a tyre shop even Kwick £it
Voicey is pretty anal and organised on this exact practice. Every time I have been there he has a torque wrench set for wheels nuts and onlyfor wheel nuts. Always checks every car before it goes out one last time to make sure nuts are torqued correctly.
Not sure about that one. I often have done but I ain't no qualified mechanic.Does he use coppaslip?
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I think the copper slip, or dry bolt discussion could go on forever without any firm conclusions. The tightness of my bolts, which were dry, would, I think, potentially cause more damage. I will be using a small dab when refitting to protect the threads from seizing.I knew someone would say something about the slip & wheelnuts but as the topic was veering into cahones and fat ar5es suddenly, I lost interest...!
It may not be strictly recommended. If the manual doesn’t state whether their torque settings are dry or not, they are also fairly pointless. Using any kind of lube ( water for example ) on a thread, significantly changes the actual friction involved, & given that you are essentially trying to convert a ‘moment’ ( rotational force ) and translating that into a tensile measurement into the bargain, I’d say it isn’t a deal breaker for most normal people.... Given that people clearly don’t put the wheels on or off very often, it makes life a lot easier in the longer term...Or just blame others for pi55 poor standards of maintenance .It’s not rocket science, is it?
We see it from time to time.
Maserati wheel nuts should be torqued to 105nm.
I suspect it’s a combination of laziness and 400nm torque guns in the domestic general garages.
If the wheels have not been off in years, heat cycles and corrosion do play a part.
Any workshop worth their salt will wire brush the hub mount, use a smear of copper slip on the mount and on the nuts/bolts and check the torque setting at least twice, once as it comes off the ramp cold and a second time after a road test hot.
Ashley has drilled it into us from the start, he has a few stories from his Meridien days. People often overlook the simple stuff.
Phil, I suspect you have a few too?
With an Alfasud it was more likely the entire hub unit coming awayI nearly had a wheel fall off my Alfasud back in the day. Lots of clinking on right hand corners. I have been more careful of my nuts since.
With an Alfasud it was more likely the entire hub unit coming away
Still not driven one.
100Nm ( +/- a few)
Use copper some slip or equivalent....
That’s brilliant....the old blame another garage swerve....blows up in your face!You mention Ford, I really liked my mk1 Focus. My boss had a Mondeo at the time. It needed a service and was a bit smoky so he booked it in via fleet. When it came back it wasn’t any better. So fleet booked it into the same garage the following week for another look. Service manger rang my boss up after they’d had it a couple of hours and said “don’t know where you had this serviced last week but we can’t see that they’ve done anything”!