Motoring joys....

[kyle_rocks]

Here's my christmas story of 06'...

So i've just finished my rather large xmas lunch with all the family and i'm just about to set off for an hour and a bit drive up scotland to eat with my girlfriend's family....driving up some twisty roads in the dark with smurry rain and fog...not fun as you can imagine!


Anyways about 40miles in i pull away from a junction and hear a kind of very very slight knocking...a couple of miles later i'm getting a slight vibration from my driver's side wheel.

So i pull over thinking it might be a slight flat or the brakes or the bearing or anything...what i find is slightly worse...3 out of 4 wheel studs have completely dissappeared!

So i decide to take the last stud out to put my spare wheel on (since i reckon it'll be alot lighter) and use a spare stud to secure it untill i get home.

When i try to take it out the wheel stud completely shears off without any pressure...what i find is quite scary, the other studs aren't just missing...they've completely sheared off aswell so i was running on one thread of one stud!

I've got some tasty 18's on my cupra and the only way i can think this would of happened was some little trying to steal my wheels and loosening the studs...?

Anyways i went back up to strip the disc and caliper to pull the suds thru from the back of the hub but guess what...they're flush! So i tried to drill them out without joy, the studs must of gotten so hot they have welded themselves to the hub, because they're snapping everything thrown at them.

I've got an engineer trying to sort my hub as i type but i'm just thankful i pulled over or i don't think i'd be here if the wheel had come off on the motorway which was 5miles away from where i stopped!

 

[davels]

foowk me! glad nothing happened and you had the sense to pull over, if they have sheared off the would have to of been overtightened as i wouldn't of thought loose bolts could shear the way you described

 

[kyle_rocks]

Yeah i was told sometimes when ppl try to steal wheels they over tighten them so them so the snap, maybe someone disturbed them or something...?

 

[Olly20VT]

Sorry to here that, glad it wasn't any worse.
Who did up the wheel nuts last that you know of? do you know if they used a toque wrench?

 

[kyle_rocks]

It must of been the guy who had it before me, sorry i don't know what he used, i was a lucky boy!

 

[Forbez]

Crickey mate! See if you can weld a nut/bolt on to the stuck bolts, and then just undo them.

 

[__B3NNY__]

Jesus that was lucky, could have been alot worse. Id proberly five forbezs idea a go had to do it before not on a wheel tho, but it did work,

Slightly off topic but does anybody know what the torque settings are for 16" Supers T`s if it makes any differance?

David.

 

[kyle_rocks]

Yeah i could of done that but i chipped abit of the thread away drilling them out so i just got them re welded and threaded again, cheers man.

 

[Olly20VT]

I would get new hubs rather than that, at least you know its the rite strength threads, duno if the hub is heat treated or treated in anyway.
IIRC they aren't to much, really would be safer IMO.

 

[kyle_rocks]

I'm just waiting on a phone call to see what the hub is like then i'll decide what i'm gonna do...fingers crossed tho!

 

[JimyFloyd]

Sh!t the bed!!!!

Did you have a lock nut on....and was it the last one left? Might tell ya if it was pikey c*nts trying to have em away?

 

[kyle_rocks]

i just had one left one, nah there weren't any locking nuts on it...scummy wee *$#@'s so they are!

 

[chrisbond69]

get a set of locking nuts mate then you can rule out the thieving option if your unlucky enough for it to ever happen again