Urgent help required!
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Did you forget to jack the car up? :lol:
Road salt will quickly corrode an aluminum to a base metal such as a hub. Sometimes excessive force is required. Patience, penetrating oil, heat and sometimes a sledge hammer with a large wooden block about 18"/45 cm long placed across the back of the tire will do the trick. Only one shot per placement and then rotate the wheel so as not to bend or damage any one portion of the wheel. Hope this helps... 
You need no tools:
Car jacked up and bolts removed. Lay on your back with base of feet facing the wheel. Alternatively kick left and right side of wheel with base of feet, on the rubber part. You can kick pretty hard without much problem, just measure what force is ok by gradually increasing. Do this until it comes of. It eventually will, depending upon how stuck the wheel is. It can takes minutes, just don't give up.
Remember, alternate left right to create a 'rocking motion' around the wheel hub.
It works like a charm, even salvaged some fair maidens this way and taught them how to do it. They'll remember me forever :wink:
(at least when they change their wheels) :lol:
Car jacked up and bolts removed. Lay on your back with base of feet facing the wheel. Alternatively kick left and right side of wheel with base of feet, on the rubber part. You can kick pretty hard without much problem, just measure what force is ok by gradually increasing. Do this until it comes of. It eventually will, depending upon how stuck the wheel is. It can takes minutes, just don't give up.
Remember, alternate left right to create a 'rocking motion' around the wheel hub.
It works like a charm, even salvaged some fair maidens this way and taught them how to do it. They'll remember me forever :wink:
(at least when they change their wheels) :lol:
My suggestion when doing any of this hitting and kicking of tyres is to have the studs in a few turns. It'll save any nasty surprises if things fly off or you knock it off axle stands (which you are of course using arn't you.....)
I would not advocate it on nice delicate alloys but on the Jeeps we sometimes have to loosen the lug nuts and lower the vehicle onto the tyre and move it forward a few feet. Brutal but amazing how rims 'weld' on with corrosion
I would not advocate it on nice delicate alloys but on the Jeeps we sometimes have to loosen the lug nuts and lower the vehicle onto the tyre and move it forward a few feet. Brutal but amazing how rims 'weld' on with corrosion
This is the technique I resorted to after a while before reading your advice. Did the job nicely. They certainly were as though they had been welded on. New wheels looking calss and the ride difference (non run flats) is quite astonishing. Not a rattle to be heard now! Thanks for all the help, without a doubt one of the most physically demanding tasks I have ever done (outside contact sport, although i'd say i'm as tired and sore as I used to be after an 80 minute rugby game)
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You never have this problem because you change your wheels like every other week!GP20 said:
