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I had a guy come into the store today after some wheel nuts for his daughters car.

I asked how many and he told me he wanted 4.

Then he told me what happend.

His daughter had been driving along and it turns out she had just got the car a few weeks before and all the wheel nuts were loose and she didnt know it(probably because she hadnt done them up tight enough or just hadnrt checked).
As she was driving along her wheel fell off:eek:

Needless to say i was completely amused for the entire time trying to find the right ones for some car this guy knew absolutly nothing about that his daughter had bought and he had only seen once or twice.

I was laughing deep down inside.:p

So check you nuts lads, and Especially check you're daughters nuts:p
 
I found one of mine missing earlier in the year, funnily enough it was the locking nut.

Don't know how, guess it was loose from the previous owner.
 
One of my wheel studs sheared off once! It was due to a lip on the end of the hub making the wheel a bit weird.

That was fun... having to stop every 10 metres and tighten the other three nuts.
 
I've seen loose wheel nuts a lot.

Petrol station attendant's 316 was showing signs of a front wheel bearing gone, nuts were loose, like you he'd just bought it, but driving with the wheel loose had done in his bearing anyway.

And my dad had 3 wheel nuts removed in an attempt to steal his alloy wheel, while parked literally in front of Kendal Police Station.





On a side note, Sunny Delight is better for your engine than oil, Lopéz told me so.
 
I had a tyre changed at a garage (tyres and exhausts place on Elizabeth Way/Newmarket Road/East Road in Cambridge) roundabout and three months later(yes, three months I had been driving about like this!) I heard a deep rumbling noise from the near side front wheel and stopped to check it out. I put the nut spanner on the first nut and 'weeee!'... it just went right round as if someone had only done them up finger tight and not with a torq wrench!:mad:

Needless to say, I did them up and all was fine and dandy.
Never went back there again.
 
Mat said:
I had a tyre changed at a garage (tyres and exhausts place on Elizabeth Way/Newmarket Road/East Road in Cambridge) roundabout and three months later(yes, three months I had been driving about like this!) I heard a deep rumbling noise from the near side front wheel and stopped to check it out. I put the nut spanner on the first nut and 'weeee!'... it just went right round as if someone had only done them up finger tight and not with a torq wrench!:mad:

Needless to say, I did them up and all was fine and dandy.
Never went back there again.
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you are joking right?
 
Many moons ago I drove a Chevette (brown and gold two tone as well - oh, the shame). One morning I got in it to drive to school and it felt a bit odd. Got a few miles up the road and was not happy with it - it seemed to be weaving all over the place. Gave up the journey and returned home. Glad I did - it turned out that during the night some joker had decided to undo all of my wheel nuts - literally every single one one the car was only on by a couple of threads. Would not have been funny if a wheel had let go while I was doing 50+ down the dual carriageway (although admittedly going at speed in a straight line is the least likely time for them to come off).
 
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agw_01 said:
Exactly. They would have come loose within a week if they'd be done up by hand.
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So you can only tighten wheel nuts with an airgun? If so how'd you expect to get them off at the side of the road when you get a flat? Am I missing the joke.. of course you only tighten them by hand using no more torque than is given by a standard wheel brace.

[edit] ignore me.. I am slow tonight...
 
pinkaardvark said:
So you can only tighten wheel nuts with an airgun? If so how'd you expect to get them off at the side of the road when you get a flat? Am I missing the joke.. of course you only tighten them by hand using no more torque than is given by a standard wheel brace.

[edit] ignore me.. I am slow tonight...
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There was talk in the industry of making it illegal to use air-guns to do wheel nuts a few years back, not sure what came of it.
 
R124/LA420 said:
Sweet F.A. I'd say - not seen many tyre fitting establishments without air guns......
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Hopefully this A.T.A. accreditation will solve that, the main focus seems to be on working ethically, you'd fail even at service technician level for doing up wheel nuts with an air gun.

The idea is, that some time down the line, you must be A.T.A. certified to work on a car for money.

Nut sure where that puts halfords for HUs.
 
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