whitey66
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Any time you take your car into a place that will remove the wheels,specify that you want them tensioned to 110 NM of torque (for a VY).
If they won't do it,take it to someone who will.
Every car that comes into our shop has the wheels tensioned with a quality torque wrench to specifications,not one of those torque bars that goes on a rattle gun.
I've drummed it into all the guys so it's second nature to them now.It only takes slightly longer and we've never had any wheel or stud incidents.
Listen to what Tom_1569 says as well,there's some good advice there.
Another thing i've seen happen is when someone swapped over their own wheels and the steel spacer that goes inside the alloy wheel stayed on the hub.Then when the other wheel with the steel spacer still inside it was fitted,did not sit fully on the hub.It was basically just riding on the spacer (because there was 2 of them on one hub.)
Quite a few allow wheels have these steel spacers fitted and quite often nobody even knows they are there.The reason they are there is to help prevent the wheel corroding and seizing onto the hub because of the two different metals used.They can still seize on there though,so check that out first and always clean and add anti-seize to the center hole of the wheel that sits on the hub.
If you have got one doubled up,remember that the wheel that came from that hub will have no spacer,so it will be loose on it's hub center as well.
Another cause of broken studs is loose nuts,but you can usually hear this before the wheel falls off
. Was your stereo cranking at the time the wheel fell off??
If they won't do it,take it to someone who will.
Every car that comes into our shop has the wheels tensioned with a quality torque wrench to specifications,not one of those torque bars that goes on a rattle gun.
I've drummed it into all the guys so it's second nature to them now.It only takes slightly longer and we've never had any wheel or stud incidents.
Listen to what Tom_1569 says as well,there's some good advice there.
Another thing i've seen happen is when someone swapped over their own wheels and the steel spacer that goes inside the alloy wheel stayed on the hub.Then when the other wheel with the steel spacer still inside it was fitted,did not sit fully on the hub.It was basically just riding on the spacer (because there was 2 of them on one hub.)
Quite a few allow wheels have these steel spacers fitted and quite often nobody even knows they are there.The reason they are there is to help prevent the wheel corroding and seizing onto the hub because of the two different metals used.They can still seize on there though,so check that out first and always clean and add anti-seize to the center hole of the wheel that sits on the hub.
If you have got one doubled up,remember that the wheel that came from that hub will have no spacer,so it will be loose on it's hub center as well.
Another cause of broken studs is loose nuts,but you can usually hear this before the wheel falls off
. Was your stereo cranking at the time the wheel fell off??
