Tyre came off, anything I can do?
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Zarco said:
Sebring440 said:
Zarco said:
The garage I use have a disclaimer on bottom of each invoice to 'check my nuts after 50 miles' or some such.
Don't believe you.
It is a thing. Even Continental mention it on their website.
https://www.continental-tyres.co.uk/car/all-about-...
That said, I've had one tyre chain (who I won't name) do the nuts up to twenty ugga-duggas meaning even a 17 stone man swinging on a four foot breaker bar won't shift them. Chance of accidental unwind = nil.
Edited by Limpet on Friday 26th November 10:09
DJP said:
This never happened and the OP will never be heard from again.
It nearly happened to me. I had some brake work done on a car. Afterwards I took it for a drive of no more than two miles and felt and heard a loose front wheel. The nuts had only been done up finger tight.Why are you sure it never happened to anyone else?
Edited by Riley Blue on Friday 26th November 11:42
Limpet said:
Zarco said:
Sebring440 said:
Zarco said:
The garage I use have a disclaimer on bottom of each invoice to 'check my nuts after 50 miles' or some such.
Don't believe you.It is a thing. Even Continental mention it on their website.
https://www.continental-tyres.co.uk/car/all-about-...
That said, I've had one tyre chain (who I won't name) do the nuts up to twenty ugga-duggas meaning even a 17 stone man swinging on a four foot breaker bar won't shift them. Chance of accidental unwind = nil.
Edited by Limpet on Friday 26th November 10:09
No wonder all these service outlets have a well worn get-out for it.
Limpet said:
That said, I've had one tyre chain (who I won't name) do the nuts up to twenty ugga-duggas meaning even a 17 stone man swinging on a four foot breaker bar won't shift them. Chance of accidental unwind = nil.
This is one of those things that seems simple but in reality is fiendishly complicated. The bolts aren’t supposed to take any load – what they do is they clamp the wheel to hub face (hence why you shouldn’t grease the hub face). Over-tightening is bad too, especially if done repeatedly, as it stretches and weakens the bolts and they may ‘give’ and loosen.There's one well regarded tyre place locally where they do up the bolts by feel. These days I'm surprised they don't wave a torque wrench at them even if just for effect, but they say there's too many uncertainties about the thread condition and they can feel when they're correct. :shrug:
DJP said:
This never happened and the OP will never be heard from again.
Are there not times when new posters cannot post, ie after 9pm or something?Maybe we should give OP the benefit of the doubt and see if they return to the thread today.
If not then you are correct, another time waster bites the dust.
Monkeylegend said:
DJP said:
This never happened and the OP will never be heard from again.
Are there not times when new posters cannot post, ie after 9pm or something?Maybe we should give OP the benefit of the doubt and see if they return to the thread today.
If not then you are correct, another time waster bites the dust.
Tommo87 said:
andyA700 said:
Sheepshanks said:
Zarco said:
No, you're supposed to do it yourself 
I wonder how many people know how to do it properly.I cannot say that I have ever received a notice specifying an exact torque number. But if everyone else on here has been given a specific torque setting, I guess that’s just me being an outlier.
The scariest thing in the story, was that nobody noticed at least four wheel nuts coming loose before the wheel was able to come off. Each of those wheel nuts is a potential smashed windscreen of dent to the cars following.
Pothole said:
Why do they take the wheels off at the factory?
They don’t they fit them and after any fitting it is good practice to check/re-torque as wheels can and on occasion do become loose.This used to be quite a problem years ago on HGV’s where wheels are subjected to much higher loads and were very often over tightened causing the bolts to shear over time, rarely happens nowadays as they are all checked with a torque wrench at fitting and no later than at days end (usually)
playamonte said:
Pothole said:
Why do they take the wheels off at the factory?
They don’t they fit them and after any fitting it is good practice to check/re-torque as wheels can and on occasion do become loose.This used to be quite a problem years ago on HGV’s where wheels are subjected to much higher loads and were very often over tightened causing the bolts to shear over time, rarely happens nowadays as they are all checked with a torque wrench at fitting and no later than at days end (usually)
Pica-Pica said:
playamonte said:
Pothole said:
Why do they take the wheels off at the factory?
They don’t they fit them and after any fitting it is good practice to check/re-torque as wheels can and on occasion do become loose.This used to be quite a problem years ago on HGV’s where wheels are subjected to much higher loads and were very often over tightened causing the bolts to shear over time, rarely happens nowadays as they are all checked with a torque wrench at fitting and no later than at days end (usually)
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