Oh FFS! - Broken Locking Wheel Bolt:-(

[Stuart Truman]

Well, another Brownie point for Dick Lovett BMW Swindon. £86 including vat got the broken bolt removed and a full replacement set of locking wheel nuts, and they changed the other 3 for me. I'll swap the locking nuts again as they're black and I want some Chrome ones but I can always keep them as spares or sell them.

Really happy with all the service I've had from Lovetts, including when things haven't gone according to plan.

 

[micz4]

Well, another Brownie point for Dick Lovett BMW Swindon. £86 including vat got the broken bolt removed and a full replacement set of locking wheel nuts, and they changed the other 3 for me. I'll swap the locking nuts again as they're black and I want some Chrome ones but I can always keep them as spares or sell them.

Really happy with all the service I've had from Lovetts, including when things haven't gone according to plan.

Pleased there was a happy ending

 

[Adamski]

do people use a torche wrench on wheels or just gut feeling, personnal i tighten to a gut feeling

I'm you Taz, never felt the need to have exact nm or ft/lbs torque. When it feels right its right.

Bit like PSI in tyres. Not the end of the world if one tyre is down 2psi. Could easy loose that during a hooning day

 

[Stuart Truman]

do people use a torche wrench on wheels or just gut feeling, personnal i tighten to a gut feeling

I'm you Taz, never felt the need to have exact nm or ft/lbs torque. When it feels right its right.

Bit like PSI in tyres. Not the end of the world if one tyre is down 2psi. Could easy loose that during a hooning day

I'm an ex-aeronautical engineer, everything should be torqued properly using a calibrated torque wrench (I actually own a Torque screwdriver!) or wire-locked in place.

Retentive? Moi?

 

[bcworkz]

Tightening by feel is still better than the tyre techs hammering the bolts so tight that you need a 1m breaker bar to get them loose again. I bought a torque wrench when I needed to remove a cylinder head, so now I use it on wheels too. It's probably out of calibration, but the important thing to me is all bolts are the same torque to eliminate any chance of deforming the rotor. I don't quite see how it might deform, as there's no place to deform to at the bolt circle, but it seems like a good idea anyway.

 

[Bing]

I also use a torque wrench. Never been an engineer, which is exactly why I do it. How doe the right feel, feel ? Wouldn't have a clue mate

 

[andysat]

Well, another Brownie point for Dick Lovett BMW Swindon. £86 including vat got the broken bolt removed and a full replacement set of locking wheel nuts, and they changed the other 3 for me. I'll swap the locking nuts again as they're black and I want some Chrome ones but I can always keep them as spares or sell them.

Really happy with all the service I've had from Lovetts, including when things haven't gone according to plan.

That was a reasonable price when they could of bent you over!

 

[Bing]

Well, another Brownie point for Dick Lovett BMW Swindon. £86 including vat got the broken bolt removed and a full replacement set of locking wheel nuts, and they changed the other 3 for me. I'll swap the locking nuts again as they're black and I want some Chrome ones but I can always keep them as spares or sell them.

Really happy with all the service I've had from Lovetts, including when things haven't gone according to plan.

That was a reasonable price when they could of bent you over!

x2 - result

 

[BMWZ4MC]

do people use a torche wrench on wheels or just gut feeling, personnal i tighten to a gut feeling

I'm you Taz, never felt the need to have exact nm or ft/lbs torque. When it feels right its right.

Bit like PSI in tyres. Not the end of the world if one tyre is down 2psi. Could easy loose that during a hooning day

I'm an ex-aeronautical engineer, everything should be torqued properly using a calibrated torque wrench (I actually own a Torque screwdriver!) or wire-locked in place.

Retentive? Moi?

I use torque screw drivers at work all the time. Very useful for preventing Ti screws cold welding to the plates I use to fix broken bones...
For my car, however, I use the 'feels tight enough' method

 

[Stuart Truman]

I use torque screw drivers at work all the time. Very useful for preventing Ti screws cold welding to the plates I use to fix broken bones...
For my car, however, I use the 'feels tight enough' method

There's probably more systems in the human bod than a Boeing. Funny to think of what tools are similar. Do you use wire locking pliers? A borocsope = an endoscope?... I wonder what else...

I don't fettle planes any more, haven't done so for 20+yrs