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MadDad
Original Poster
841 posts
91 months
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NWVT
1,680 posts
14 months
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First off holy poo that was drastic never heard of having to do that before.
but i quite like the look of those wheels they look alright.
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John D.
5,269 posts
39 months
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Bloody hell! Your old wheels look like they've had a high speed smash on a rally stage!  I'm surprised you had to resort to that. New wheels look nice though 
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MadDad
Original Poster
841 posts
91 months
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It's about the most drastic thing I have ever done to a car! I tried everything, welding a bolt to the end of it, stud removal tools, driving a socket over the top of the bolts, heating the nuts - took it to a couple of garages, one of which spent 2 hours before telling me there was no option but to cut the wheels off!
Undeterred I spent a small fortune on titanium drill bits to drill through the locking nuts, after 4 hours of drilling I had only managed to get 1/2 way through the head of the bolt! Totally crappy situation which called for drastic measures!
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x 7usc
513 posts
25 months
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new wheels look great, shame you had to cut the old ones off, out of interest how did you finaly get the nuts undone as cutting them off still left the centre and nuts i presume. i trust a swipe of copper grease went on the threads of the new nuts! 
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MadDad
Original Poster
841 posts
91 months
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I cut chunks of the remaining alloy off until I was able to get the angle grinder vertically over the seized bolt. Once there was enough room to cut downwards I chopped through the bolt, once the bolt head was off - 'hey presto', I was able to knock the last bit of alloy off and unscrew the remaining bolt with my fingers!
Oh yes, re-fitted with lots of copper-slip!
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