Pre SVA I want to bed the brakes in so i trailer the car to B&Qs car park last night whilst drifting the car around and around all was going
really well until the front wheel came off 
well the ball joint at the bottom to be exact lucky i have a spare ally as the other one is knackered
Check them nuts builders i went around my car with a spanner last night and found the rack hadn’t been tightened fully either......
glad i tested the car before i drove the 75 miles to sva
A useful tip I've picked up from my place of work. is when you have tightened the nuts down to the correct torque, use a chalk pen to mark over the nut and mating part, that way a quick visual check will see if you've torqued it up, and if it has relaxed or slipped as well, much easier and quicker
The locost alternative to a chalk pen is to knick the wifes nail varnish, or get some correction fluid from work.
I didn't tell you this if caught 
On my way to SVA a rear caliper bolt worked loose and fell out! Needless to say that would have been an instant fail. Except the tester took a coffee
break while I shot round to the local scrappy to get a replacement 
[Edited on 17/8/06 by bimbleuk]
Yep, bit of Tipex on all the bolts and mountings allows you to see if anything has moved.
I used a broad-tipped red felt-tip pen...
...it was a bonus when I went to the SVA, as the tester asked why many nuts & bolts had a red stripe on them - when I told him that they were to
mark all the fasteners I'd checked he smiled.
A bit of BS is always useful in any test!
Bright red nail varnish for me too 
I've been marking all the bolts I have torqued up during the build of my car with a Red permanent marker pen. I intended to go over the lot of
them when (eventually!) the build is complete with a different coloured pen, but the idea of using nail varnish sounds better, maybe using an
additional colour for a 100mile bolt check or something..
Cheers
Andy
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Originally posted by bigandy
I've been marking all the bolts I have torqued up during the build of my car with a Red permanent marker pen. I intended to go over the lot of them when (eventually!) the build is complete with a different coloured pen, but the idea of using nail varnish sounds better, maybe using an additional colour for a 100mile bolt check or something..
Cheers
Andy
With nail varnish or tippex you put the dob on the bolt/nut and the component being bolted. So any movement breaks cracks the it.
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Originally posted by iank
So any movement breaks cracks the it.