Further to my post below
Read the following on also why OVERTIGHTENING is just as bad!
http://www.normarkindustries.com/CausesEffects.htm
Rob
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On Behalf Of Robert Edwards
Sent: 14 July 2005 19:43
To: [Email address removed]
Subject: RE: [ELCO] Renate's Wheel Studs
Pete is absolutely right! Almost had my wife, and children
injured (or worse). By an idiot at Halfords. Left the wheel nuts only
finger tight after balancing the wheels. My wife and children were going
on a trip early the next morning (one of the reasons for having the car
checked, and wheels balanced).
At about 20 MPH on the motorway (heavy traffic) the front
nearside wheel comes off! RAC attend and find all the other wheel nuts
only finger tight! This was in the days before mobile phones. This
ocurred only a couple of miles from the aforementioned branch of
Halfords. So after the RAC had check the car and made it safe. She goes
back to Halfords. Who state someone else must have loosened them.
Yeah right! the car went from Halford's the previous night
straight into a locked garage with my Toyota Hilux parked hard against
the door! They check and tighted the wheels nuts. I arrived home, and I
check the wheel nuts.
Yeah they're tight this time, so tight it takes a 6 foot
scaffold pole on a spider to shift them! And these are alloy wheels
we're talking about! So after my "polite" conversation if appears
Halford's might sell torque wrenches, but have no idea what they're for!
So my point is absolutely use a torque wrench on wheel
nuts/bolts. Anyone who advises you against it is a dangerous fool!!! (IN
the motor trade or NOT!) Don't let an idiot in the tyre shop wind them
on with an air impact wrench either. They set the (or most do) pressure
"full bore" as it puts the nuts on faster. Most will, if asked will, use
a torque wrench and do the job properly/safely!
Rob
I disagree.
I would only NOT use a torque wrench if I was changing a wheel at the
roadside or similar due to a puncture and using the toolkit wheelbrace.
Otherwise I always use a torque wrench. I know from experience that I
cannot get anywhere near the correct torque by guestimation because I
have checked. Not only are the nuts at the wrong torque but they all
vary.
Nope, use a torque wrench every time IMO.
Pete
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