Thread: Tyre Issues - Local tyre shop

Before I replaced the locking nuts, I would remove all the locking nuts then not let the fitters have them, which required me to tighten all the nuts. I often had to sign a waiver, which was appropriate.

I run 2 sets of tyres - one on road and one off road - on my D2

So my tyres some on an off a lot - I use a rattle gun at home to put the nuts on an off but not to break them or do the final tighten.

I have a 3/4 inch drive breaker bar and extension with appropriate socket in my 2 4x4's (also in the competition Rangie Ute) to break and tighten the nuts - always done by hand.

I took this approach after not being able to remove some nuts after a service - we bent the factory bar bouncing on it with no movement - threw it away. I have also had a wheel come loose and I lost one front wheel completely after a service. Hence fanatical about checking nuts.

After it comes off the jack the 3/4 breaker bar goes around every nut.

Skiboy

Couldn`t agree more with above comments,wasn`t able to remove nuts with a metre long bar.
this is dangerous,these cowboys can end up yielding the wheel studs with such high tightening torques.
Now always insist on hand-tightening with standard wheel brace whenever wheels are removed.

Trev.