Yup. All the bolts for my 1972 MGB are copper greased. Naive of me to think that a vehicle built in 2020 should need it.Grease us the word, yes you’ve heard. An ounce of prevention…
VM Transporter spare. wheel
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Very good. Took me way to long that!!
8x57
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I personally knew two people who died like that. The one was a motor mechanic who simply got complacent.
I never ever trust a vehicle jack and always use a trolley jack plus stands.
The nice AA man has been and hammered it off. I needed a bigger hammer.
Next step - find an appropriate bottle or trolly jack that fits under with a flat.
Next step - find an appropriate bottle or trolly jack that fits under with a flat.
Freeforester
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Some copper slip on the mating faces before you put the wheel back on will help ‘next time’, is the suggestion.
We lost a local farm worker as his air suspension collapsed on him, a guy out in Dengies lost his life (on the day he was retiring ) as he wanted to check the trailer was empty and the driver closed the air ram tailgate.
A lorry fitter died in Forfar a while back as he relied solely on an inflated airbag to support the chassis while he changed a failed unit. The airbags burst and, well, you can figure out the rest. All for the sake of a bottle jack and a stand
drive the flat wheel onto a block of wood or the spare wheel, it also saves lots of jacking,
I wouldn't bother with a bottle jack, they have to be on very flat hard surfaces to work. They are prone to toppling over. You cant beat a good trolley jack,
next job is get rid of the locking nuts
dont let anyone ever tighten nuts with an impact gun. especially the AA man. I ended up needing professional removal of a locking nut after a breakdown engineer put the nuts on with an impact gun. got rid of them after and just use normal nuts now
The nice man was gently with my nuts. (torquing by hand)
Don't lose the locking wheel nut tool! Weld up the part that wants to spin then undo it
The heat running down the stud helps alsoLOOK VW lol
If your bottle jack ends up being too tall then carry a piece of wood that you can drive the punctured tyre up onto to enable the jack to fit.
I was a AA Patrol for 40 years, retired 7 years ago. We used to carry a caravan levelling ramp for doing this.
VWs hideous for the alloy wheel/ steel hub corrosion issue as no copper grease used from the factory.
Whenever I attended one under warranty the report that I gave the factory suggested gross incompetence.
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