thankfully 1 slap on the belly and the vibration did the rest
...bit of a generalisation but still.
Leon had 2 new tyres on less than 2 weeks ago for the MOT before I bought it.
The muppets who fitted them seem to have done the front wheel studs up with an impact wrench set on max. Buggered if I can get them undone, even a
3' Britool breaker bar wont shift them and I darent pull on it any harder!
Taking it in to my friendly garage tomorrow to get them undone.
Anyway my point is why do they insist on doing wheel nuts up so damn tight? Idiots!
David
PS yes I know there are a lot of good fitters too (like my local)....
I can fully sympathise with you there.
I took my brand new Seat Leon from Newcastle to Cardiff when it was about a week old. Arrived on site, parked up. When I came out back tyre was
totally flat.
Opened the boot, got the wheel wrench out of the boot, put it on, pushed, pulled, swore, sweated, yanked, shoved, strained. Bloody nuts wouldn't
shift at all.
After about 10 mins I had to give in and call the AA!
Mike
you can ask them to not use windy guns.
One of my local places (Apex tyres in Peterborough) torque them by hand. not many places do it as standard.
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Anyway my point is why do they insist on doing wheel nuts up so damn tight? Idiots!
As a frigging tyre fitter myself....... I know what you mean!
My business is mobile and we get lots of over tigthened nuts, its a real pain.
I wont let any of my fitters use power tools and make them get the customer to sign that they have used a torque wrench by hand.
But to be honest the guns dont do them up that tight it usually over tightened by hand which is worse.
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But to be honest the guns dont do them up that tight it usually over tightened by hand which is worse.
I was stood on my breaker bar the other week when the tin top needed to have a wheel off!
thankfully 1 slap on the belly and the vibration did the rest
I was always told that doing alloy wheels up too tight can damage the wheels.
I'd take it back to them (if possible) and get them to bloody undo them... them complain and say their damaged and get new wheels out of them 
dont know about damage to the wheels but it can and doest stretch bolts/studs potentially causing failure
Tell me about it!!!!
What makes it worse is when then DONT use copper gease Muppets!!!!!!
My favourite tyre place only use the rattle gun to take the nuts off - they use hand tools to put them back on, finishing with a torque wrench.
(Hadleigh Tyres, Ipswich)
Did they put the yellow/red dots in the right places?
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Did they put the yellow/red dots in the right places?
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Did they put the yellow/red dots in the right places?
Yep, thats about all they did right
had this problem ona volvo the other week
ended up putting a socket on the wheel bolt 3 or 4 good welts with a hammer then a big bar hey presto they come undone might be worth a try at your
own risk.
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As you're not ranting about it sounds like they also used stick on weights not hammer on ones, so that's two things.
Hope studs/wheels are ok when you finally get them off.
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had this problem ona volvo the other week
ended up putting a socket on the wheel bolt 3 or 4 good welts with a hammer then a big bar hey presto they come undone might be worth a try at your own risk.
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Anyway my point is why do they insist on doing wheel nuts up so damn tight? Idiots!
My missus had a flat while I was away with work and was very relieved when a local garage lad offered to stick the spare on for nowt. He used air gun
and stripped the thread off the bolt and out of the hub. He must have know as they were very loose just spinning round. I phoned to have a moan at
them but of course they had no record of the job
I actually had to take my car back to the garage that fitted my tyres....
The studs were stretched by 3mm and narrowed dangerously..... when I went to retorque them, they snapped......
They bought me a new set... Now I make sure that they do them up to the correct torque... and no tighter!!! Dont want to loose a wheel!
Name and shame the Bas***ds Formula 1 in Peterborough always do them up with an air gun
I only tend to use them because they are cheep i should know better really coming from the motor trade.
Had a puncture repaired on my daughters Clio a couple of months ago all was fine until i wanted the wheel of the other week, had to put a length of
tube onto my metre long breaker bar to undo the wheel bolts then broke the locking wheel nut tool off took me an hour to drill the bolt
out 
Well. Look what happened to my Clio bar when i tryied to undo my wheels.
By the way, the jack holded perfectly allright.
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Going to hit them with my impact wrench from work at lunch time.
3/4" drive Makita one, will either break something or they will come undone, one or the other (588Nm torque....)
David
Sorted it. Sheared off a 1/2" drive impact extension in the process though! All bolts now undone and refitted correctly. What a pain!
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Sorted it. Sheared off a 1/2" drive impact extension in the process though! All bolts now undone and refitted correctly. What a pain!
how tight does it have to be to destroy 1/2" impact extensions