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Mizengeo
Member Since: 26 Feb 2012
Location: Reading
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Hi - new to the forum
I use Spikespyders as snow chains so each year need to swap normal wheel nuts on back wheels with the locking ones on the front to give five normal wheel nuts at the front to mount the hubs. Just swapped back and when I tightened a normal wheel nut on the back wheel it sheared - looking at the break, it appears to have been partially sheared for sometime as there is a lot of corrosion there. I have never used a torque wrench when tightening before (have one now!). I am left wondering is it likely I have damaged the nut (or is this a known fault) and if one has gone should I replace all (I can't tell if there is any damage to the others). I am thinking it might be fault - wouldn't over tightening normally damage the thread rather than the nut?
Look forward to your thoughts.
Thanks Geoff
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 26th Feb 2012 7:48 pm |
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Gareth
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Member Since: 07 Dec 2004
Location: Bramhall
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To be safe, if in any doubt I would replace them all. The correct torque is 140nm, which is not hard to achieve, especially if you were tightening them up with a breaker bar or similar.
If you were using the standard wheelbrace, I would say it would be very difficult to get a torque much higher without it falling to bits like they usually do.
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| 26th Feb 2012 8:04 pm |
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Mizengeo
Member Since: 26 Feb 2012
Location: Reading
Posts: 5
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Thanks - yes I saw 140 nm for the torque - I was using the standard LR brace but I suppose damage could have been from garage / tyre shop.
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| 26th Feb 2012 8:11 pm |
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DSL
Keeper of the wheelie bin
Member Since: 11 May 2006
Location: Off again! :-)
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Hmmmm, once couldn't get my wheel nuts off after a service so took the car back to what is normally an excellent dealer. I asked the chief tech what they did to get the torque right & he told me about the torque whench that is solely for wheels. I then invited him to try and get my nuts off (figuratively speaking), needless to say he couldn't budge them. It then turns out that they put the nuts on with a normal air wrench, then use the toque wrench. Needless to say that's as much use a a choc teapot.  I think they've changed their procedures as no problems since. 
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| 26th Feb 2012 8:18 pm |
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frost2563
Member Since: 01 Jan 2012
Location: leeds
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Locking wheel nuts 
i agree get rid of the locking wheel nuts while you can
i wasnt aware of this but when i needed new tyres last week the garage couldnt remove them so i had to beat them into submishion
which will mark your alloys
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| 3rd Mar 2012 6:53 am |
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BLFarrar
Member Since: 02 Aug 2006
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What exactly have you broken....
The stud......this has sheared off ?...can only be too much torque
Or the nut is damaged somehow ?......these swell anyway... BREXIT - done properly.
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| 3rd Mar 2012 8:10 am |
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