Thread: Changed the wheels over

Whenever I get tyres done, the first thing I tell them is no rattle guns when putting them back on.
I've caught a few and then gone off at them when a rattle gun is used. They've then sat there and tried to tell me they "under torque" them doing them up, then torque wrench them as a check. Funnily enough, it clicks and hasn't moved. "yeah right, now undo them ALL, and do the job properly,,, that's what I'm paying you for".
It all boils down to lazy arse people who can't, or won't, do their jobs properly. Procedure's are there for a reason.

Originally Posted by protonpills

Sometimes i think service departments with their rattle guns get carried away. I rotate my tires myself and once had to stand on my wheel spanner too. Jeep wheel nuts have a cap on them and have had them break off after a visit to the dealers for a service. Imagine being stuck in the middle of nowhere with a flat tire and one of the nuts has a cap broken off. For that reason i too bought a Snap-on breaker bar with two socket sizes, one for the original size nut and one for the hex nut under the cap as well. When ever i get a service i ask that all wheel nuts are tightened by hand and not with a rattle gun

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Both Jeep and Land Rover have wheel lugs that have the stupid pressed chrome overlay. Getting rid of the locking wheel lug is something I also recommend to customers/owners, again as you say image being in the middle of nowhere and the locking lug adapter splits or the pins break off (and they do).

How ridiculous that any repairer hasnt trained their monkeys not to rattle tight wheel lugs on an alloy wheel. There is a torque setting for a reason, as in 1, you have some hope of removing them on the side of the road and 2, all lugs are done evenly to prevent the wheel from being distorted. So if working monkeys cant be trained to use a torque wrench, then you can get torque adapters extensions that are pre-set and colour coded.

Regards
Daz