Thread: Wheel nuts tightening

Originally Posted by ramblingboy42

I don't dig this.....how often do you go to tyre shop? Mine only went when I bought a new set of tyres. I politely told them about the correct way to use the wheel nuts and even offered a couple of bucks extra for care. In any case they were quite happy to do my wheels by hand.

And why are wheel and tyre ads popping up on the mast head hhahahahaha.

It doesn't have to be a tyre shop, although that is the most likely place. In my case in was a so called "mechanic' that had removed the wheels to change the brake pads.
If whatever place it is needs to be told, politely or otherwise, how to correctly torque up lug nuts, then maybe you had better consider what else he is doing!

Every time the tyre shop rotates my tyres they write "NO GUN" on the job ticket and the fitter follows this always and uses a hand torque wrench. Had one place I'll never use again, ruin 6 nuts on my then Puma by not even stopping the gun before trying to fit it onto the next nut. They paid for new nuts and sacked the idiot after I had to go back and complained and got them to remove the nuts they were so tight.
I always use some sort of copper based lubricant on all wheel nuts, cars, boat or caravan.
AlanH.

There wouldn’t be too many brand names tyre shops not using a torque wrench.....sadly most of the time it’s just for show.

If you happen to have nothing better to do apart from sitting around watching them you’ll soon see plenty of flaws in torquing your nuts up.

Ive never needed/used a torque wrench and never had an issue with nuts coming loose, I always loosen and retighten the wheel nuts when I get home with my trusty socket and breaker bar. This way I know the bride can undo them. Although I do have a torque wrench in the garage but it’s not something I travel with.

The boss of my tyre shop said he had banned his tyre fitters from using rattle guns.

Originally Posted by DiscoMick

Your phone is recording you and transmitting the information to Google or some other business.
It is possible to turn that off in Settings, but you will lose some functions.
My phone has an option to make it tell me if an app. wants to note my location and require my authorisation, so I turned that on.
Security services have been given the power to force phone networks to reveal data collected to them. So, in theory, ASIO could be using your phone's microphone to listen to your conversations right now.
I'm not making this up - this is for real.

You aren’t making it all up. But you are missing lots of finer details.

Phone networks have always collected location data. It was one of the delays implementing 3G/4G as its encryption was a key roadblock.

ASIO could ONLY access your microphone IF you allow an app to access it - they can intercept calls or data.

Other apps link the most amazing connections. If you friend has been looking at a Ferrari site, and then comes in proximity to you then you are a “link” and the feed can be targeted as like minded people often like the same or similar things.

It’s not a huge conspiracy- unless you’re into some nasty **** ASIO couldn’t give a rats behind about you.

Originally Posted by INDABA

I have a 98disco that the wheel nuts seem to slf tighten
I have ruined a few trying to remove them
They have some sort of outer casing , a 2 part type of thing
Any advice as how to overcome this problem??

The wheel nuts will be self binding to the wheel itself.
If you have a bit of corrosion between wheel and where the nut locates this will make them harder to undo.

A bit of Lanox on this point helps, as does a dab of Nickel Anti-Seize on the threads.

Always use a single hex socket on the wheel nuts and No rattle gun - ever...

Vehicles subject to lots of mud/sand/salt can benefit from the wheel nuts getting a bath to wash away the build up between the cover and inner.

Originally Posted by Tombie

You aren’t making it all up. But you are missing lots of finer details.

Phone networks have always collected location data. It was one of the delays implementing 3G/4G as its encryption was a key roadblock.

ASIO could ONLY access your microphone IF you allow an app to access it - they can intercept calls or data.

Other apps link the most amazing connections. If you friend has been looking at a Ferrari site, and then comes in proximity to you then you are a “link” and the feed can be targeted as like minded people often like the same or similar things.

It’s not a huge conspiracy- unless you’re into some nasty **** ASIO couldn’t give a rats behind about you.

Yes, they always say you have nothing to fear unless you're doing bad stuff, but actually it doesn't always work that way in real life.

I have no problem with a rattle gun being used on my wheels if done properly. The tyre fitters at the place I have bought my last couple of sets use a rattle gun to remove and install the wheels, then go over all the nuts by hand backing them off and tightening to an appropriate torque. A torque wrench is totally unnecessary for this (and most other fasteners) IMO.
Those chrome-covered wheel nuts are an abysmal idea though, I've never seen this on any other vehicle.