Something else to look for on a service
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Classic tale of over-tightening over many years. The 'trade' is as much to blame for this as individuals; some do use a torque wrench but don't use it correctly... with potentially lethal results.
Moral of the tale; learn how to use your own torque wrench correctly and always insist on refitting and tightening your own wheels at tyre depots.
Most of these places also need instruction on how to raise a car; I see so many cars with dings in the sill flanges (from trolley jack cradles) where a simple pad of wood would've prevented it, my own Cerb's outriggers included
Moral of the tale; learn how to use your own torque wrench correctly and always insist on refitting and tightening your own wheels at tyre depots.
Most of these places also need instruction on how to raise a car; I see so many cars with dings in the sill flanges (from trolley jack cradles) where a simple pad of wood would've prevented it, my own Cerb's outriggers included
TwinKam said:
Classic tale of over-tightening over many years. The 'trade' is as much to blame for this as individuals; some do use a torque wrench but don't use it correctly... with potentially lethal results.
Moral of the tale; learn how to use your own torque wrench correctly and always insist on refitting and tightening your own wheels at tyre depots.
Most of these places also need instruction on how to raise a car; I see so many cars with dings in the sill flanges (from trolley jack cradles) where a simple pad of wood would've prevented it, my own Cerb's outriggers included
This ^ I recently had my niece's Toyota Rav 4 in on a 2012 plate and I could feel one of the front wheel stud's getting elastic before final torquing (something you gain through experience) needless to say the stud body was also waisted like in this pick, previous ham fisted tightening along the way methinksMoral of the tale; learn how to use your own torque wrench correctly and always insist on refitting and tightening your own wheels at tyre depots.
Most of these places also need instruction on how to raise a car; I see so many cars with dings in the sill flanges (from trolley jack cradles) where a simple pad of wood would've prevented it, my own Cerb's outriggers included
Wow, I will admit to being entirely guilty of this, I worked in a backstreet garage when I was 16/17, was told then that when refitting wheels you rattle gunned them on then went around and torqued the s
t out of all the nuts before you sent the vehicle out... That seemed to be the standard practice.
t out of all the nuts before you sent the vehicle out... That seemed to be the standard practice. caelite said:
Wow, I will admit to being entirely guilty of this, I worked in a backstreet garage when I was 16/17, was told then that when refitting wheels you rattle gunned them on then went around and torqued the st out of all the nuts before you sent the vehicle out... That seemed to be the standard practice.
Sad to say, it still is.t out of all the nuts before you sent the vehicle out... That seemed to be the standard practice. Forums | General TVR Stuff & Gossip | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff