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MogulBoy
Member Since: 07 Feb 2010
Location: Devon
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Stumbled across the demo video of these and it would appear to be a good solution to avoid backache!
http://www.roverparts.com/Parts/WMAT.cfm
Is there anything similar available on this side of the pond? MY11 D4 SDV6 SE LHD (with remote park heater, heated seats in row 2, heated steering wheel and rear HVAC controls!)
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 26th Mar 2012 2:56 pm |
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BBS SPY
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Member Since: 15 Jun 2007
Location: Sunny Cyprus
Posts: 3054
  
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Sorry, but i just do not get it.
The guy had to physically lift the wheel and hold it in the air while trying to align it with the two protrusions in 3 dimensions.
Normally you just have to get the wheel mated to the main circular hub, after which you can then very easily rotate it to line up the first LUG NUT as the Yanks like to call it.
IMHO it saved no labour at all.
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| 26th Mar 2012 6:15 pm |
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geoff.
Member Since: 24 Jan 2010
Location: West kent
Posts: 8531
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i suppose it stops the wheel hitting the floor while you look for the wheel nuts you just kicked all round the place 
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| 26th Mar 2012 6:19 pm |
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BBS SPY
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Member Since: 15 Jun 2007
Location: Sunny Cyprus
Posts: 3054
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For heavens sake man, it should really be dead easy to find them while sitting on the side of a motorway despite the freezing rain and on coming traffic.
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| 26th Mar 2012 7:02 pm |
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MogulBoy
Member Since: 07 Feb 2010
Location: Devon
Posts: 140
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I can see that using two could be overkill but I've seen one used before in Porsche circles where the stated benefits include reducing the chance of chipping paint off your calipers (vanity) and for those with ceramic brakes fitted, reducing the risk of chipping a disk (eye-wateringly expen$ive).
As for the difficulty of aligning the wheel onto a 'stud', I would have thought that we are all biologically programmed to rise to such challenges  MY11 D4 SDV6 SE LHD (with remote park heater, heated seats in row 2, heated steering wheel and rear HVAC controls!)
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| 26th Mar 2012 7:13 pm |
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Flack
Member Since: 06 Sep 2006
Location: Preston Lancashire
Posts: 6233
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F F. sake just use a flat bar or crow bar, roll the wheel on to the bar and use to lift the wheel in positon, I used to use this all the time on the motorway when I had a wagon or coach wheel to change.......... never failed with it...
Flack 
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| 26th Mar 2012 8:47 pm |
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Bushwanderer
Member Since: 27 Nov 2007
Location: Northern Rivers, NSW, Australia
Posts: 2050
 
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I notice in the video that the wheel was being fitted to a vehicle with neither the centre hub nor studs.  The Bearded Dragon
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| 27th Mar 2012 2:50 am |
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Fogga
Member Since: 20 Jul 2009
Location: Tromsoe
Posts: 89
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What a waste of time. The dude uses 15 sec to fasten them and 51 sec to remove them. The video is 2:08 long, and 1:06 is for putting the "tool" on and taking it off. So if not using this "tool" he should manage to put on 2 wheels in 2:08. Brilliant!
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| 27th Mar 2012 2:58 pm |
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