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I always tell the tyre place that I don't want a rattle gun used on re-fitting.
Whoever had our VT Dunnydoor before us had them so tight that the nuts were rounded off on attempting removal with the wheel brace after having a flat tyre.
I now check the wheel nuts when I pick the car up.
Ron
I was at some tyre shop once and said, "Please don't use a rattle gun - just tighten them up with a spanner." So they did.
And they managed to tighten the crap out of them with a spanner instead! :p
I forgot to mention, if you know a good enough welder the spare stud can be repaired without taking the carrier off.
drill out the old stud then weld the new one in place after taking the backing lug off of it.
A old holden door handle remover which is flat and has a u shaped mouth is good for gtting under press studs and offering support as u lift saving u tearing the stud out the board and causing more profanities to be cast, as for rattle guns, wont use a shop that uses them on wheels, last time I had to use a cold chisel and lump hammer to shift a wheel nut, no need for it
Bloody tyre fitters are a dead set PIA when it comes to this. I always re-tension them soon as I get home from the tyre fitters and torque them up as per the workshop manual.
I use a rattle gun at home as well but I stop once tension is obtained and torque them up from there.
Trav
Couple of years ago I got my wheels balanced - fortunately, the next flat I had was at home - where I had six feet of pipe to put on a 3/4 drive socket handle to get the nuts undone!
After loosening and retensioning the rest of the wheels I had some unkind words to say to the owner of the tyre business. He said they normally use a tension wrench but he thought they may have used the gear used for trucks since they do not have Landrover sized sockets in the car/4wd section since they are so rare.
John
http://www.gpsocket.com/index.cfm?event=catview&id=3103
these are the generic complete kits. supercrap, Ripco and auto pro (havent got a slanderous nick for them yet) have them in 3 sets and sometimes individually.
bigJon said it all, ask them how the retighten the nuts before you give them the car, if they use anything other than a torque wrench tell them to bash it up their probverbial and go to a proffesional.
Knuckle heads with rattle guns should be alowed to cull em out.
blythe
well thats all done bar the letter to the manager with a few of the finer pts of wheel nut etiquet mentioned in here. The knob head who snapped it, welded it up for me and painted it. I have just refitted it all, having only busted 4 trim fasteners in the process, luckily I was able to get some locally.
all tyre fitters heed: may your testicles shrivel to minute brittle sacs if you rattle a nut when you shouldnt.:mad::D
Geez, glad I dont work in a tyre shop anymore.
When I started at the shop, we had a killer gun that would snap nuts without even slowing down so you had to guess when they were done up and then hit them with the torque wrench.
We got rid of that and bought a new gun, cant remember the brand (Blue something from Snap Off) that we had a guage bolted to the wall that we used to calibrate it every day and on cars that are very fussy we would use those torque splitters to drop it to a specific value and then finnish every car with the torque wrench.
I thought all shops did this as I had been to heaps of other ones picking up tyres and cars or wheels and they all pretty much had the same gear, must be just in that area, probably a good snap on rep.