Shite myself the other day..

[lacroupade]

Don't they recommend that you don't grease your nuts

I think most of ue do to make sure we can take them off again, could this be the problem.


It was a long time ago, My Father was driving and we lost a trailer wheel, it came off hit a kerb and went over a fence without touching it.

I had the task of knocking on the door, as a kid, and asking "Can I have my wheel back ?" There it was in long grass, with no signs of how it got there.

We were over loaded at the time, but the wheel nuts were still in the metal hub cap. It only had 3 wheel studs and nuts, axle must have been off an old Citroen. The studs were totally stripped of threads, so this hadn't come loose as such.

well its always amazed me how many people overtighten their nuts :augie

 

[badger]

this happened to me on the m60, god it was bad
must have been about 4 months ago.
i looked at nuts and all had dodgy threads, changed them all, and a new lower ball joint (which was only 4 weeks old) car sat on balljoint nut and wore it away skidding down the road.
to be fare ran straight and true on 3 wheels, didnt pull to left, which was odd

anyway, found out that these cars had a recall, due to wheels falling off, check on VOSA, not sure what cure was, but touch wood not done it again, i do now tend to check wheel nuts.

 

[(RIP) PLANK]

The other day, I just shit myself.

I do that most days, I've found, it's best to drop you trousers first, saves a lot of mess :augie

 

[lacroupade]

I do that most days, I've found, it's best to drop you trousers first, saves a lot of mess :augie

Yeah but sometimes it just creeps up on you, all unawares like....

 

[Paul]

this happened to me on the m60, god it was bad
must have been about 4 months ago.
i looked at nuts and all had dodgy threads, changed them all, and a new lower ball joint (which was only 4 weeks old) car sat on balljoint nut and wore it away skidding down the road.
to be fare ran straight and true on 3 wheels, didnt pull to left, which was odd

anyway, found out that these cars had a recall, due to wheels falling off, check on VOSA, not sure what cure was, but touch wood not done it again, i do now tend to check wheel nuts.

Got the ball joint on order, should be here this week. :thumb2

 

[jace]

sod that thats an age since you broke it mustve been able to get one same day ?

 

[Paul]

sod that thats an age since you broke it mustve been able to get one same day ?

Got a pair from ebay for £30 to the door, in no rush to fit it..

 

[jace]

lazy git!

 

[rustic]

The wheel nuts on my mav, with alloy wheels are made of brass, so you daren't overtighten them, I always use a torque wrench.

When I bought the Mav, I fitted locking wheel nuts that gave me some spare wheel nuts, I have now replaced 2 of them as the garage in the old days of dealer servicing stripped 2, and it left the brass curls on the studs. They cleaned up ok though but wrecked the wheel nut.


The dealer, in the days they were servicing it, stripped 2 wheel nuts, sheared off one of the allen bolts on the front auto Hub, forgot to fit the rocker box cover correctly, left out the seals on the bolts, resulting in oil hissing down the back of the engine.

Dented a sill, as they thought it was a good place to jack it up from....

I'll probably thing of a few others...


In the old days before collecting your car either from a dealer or tyre place, they used to demonstrate the torque by using a torque wrench ( set correctly), in front of you.

Who has seen this done recently? :nenau :nenau

So why do wheels fall off..... Wrong torque settings, too slack and they undo, too tight and they shear off.

I rest my case.

Check your nuts daily...... :naughty :naughty

:doh

 

[jace]

name shame that dealer,what they do let yts kid loose on it,saw thread on navra forum about inserts on wheels comming loose on d40 model

 

[rustic]

name shame that dealer,what they do let yts kid loose on it,saw thread on navra forum about inserts on wheels comming loose on d40 model

The dealer was a Ford Dealer, ( No longer trading now, the M6 Toll road went straight through their sales office :lol :lol :lol )

All the jobs were done under the 3 year warrenty, after the 3 years I went to Nissan dealers, they were ok, but for the last 8-9 years I have done all servicing myself.


Do a bit today, a bit next month ..... easy to do... even that damn oil filter is easy now I remove the nearside wheel, mostly to tighten the new filter.:doh

 

[Paul]

lazy git!

And your point is??

 

[jace]

instead of sitting there playing with yer nuts fix your truck,dogs are hungry looking for soft nrothern type to munch on lol!

 

[Paul]

instead of sitting there playing with yer nuts fix your truck,dogs are hungry looking for soft nrothern type to munch on lol!

Had to redo the water pump yesterday got to the van & the sodding thing was leaking, knew I should have thrown the paper gasket away first time & used liquid gasket..

Cost us a mint in antifreeze.. :doh

 

[jace]

bummer so u had to redo it on campsite? bet they thought pikeys had arrived lol!

 

[Paul]

bummer so u had to redo it on campsite? bet they thought pikeys had arrived lol!

LoL the manager is a good mate. :thumb2
Only took half an hour to do, had it done before anyone was up yesterday..

 

[jace]

at least it never ruined the weekend!

 

[Paul]

at least it never ruined the weekend!

Apart from the rain & high wind's.. :lol

 

[jace]

shouldve layed off on the beans then!" if this vans a rockin dont come a knockin"

 

[Paul]

shouldve layed off on the beans then!" if this vans a rockin dont come a knockin"

Knew I shouldn't have posted that.. :lol :lol