Previous 1 2 3 template Next. Posts Latest Activity Photos. Page of 3. Filtered by:. February 6, , PM. Originally posted by squirrel View Post. The kids were tasked to change the flat tire. Yup, they put the lug nuts on backwards But it looks like a lawyer wrote that thing you posted!
Pt , Long Haul ,12,13,14,15 , 16,17, 18, 19 If you wait, all that happens is that you get older. Comment Post Cancel. Doing it all wrong since February 7, , AM.
Law firms taking stupid cases caused this. Why this is a shock to you, is comical. If lawyers didn't take the cases, there be no need to be worrying about covering their asses 5 ways till sunday. Dan Barlow. I read the 'instructions to the 3rd line. Originally posted by Dan Barlow View Post. Charter member of the Turd Nuggets. This type of document is to protect not the lug nut end user but the manufacturer. They have to assume every one is the dumbest of the dumb. Common sense is not that common..
He installed the spare, out of four lug nuts he lost one, one was installed backwards, one was loose and the remaining nut tight. I found it when I did a service on the car weeks later. My friend says Like most instruction manuals for stuff we buy these days, there are 10 pages of warnings and dangers, that we skip through to get to the "which button to push to make it do what I want" part. If there were only a few important warnings, folks might be tempted to actually read them.
But no My fabulous web page "If it don't go, chrome it! Addicting isn't it?? The pages of warnings etc. Eventually that needs to be accounted for in what's required of manufacturers. If you're really sure you know how to fasten a wheel on, jack up the driven end of your car and have someone else get in and run it up to 50, 70, mph while you sit there a couple feet away watching all that weight whirr and spin and see how confident you feel Bolting on a wheel used to be a simple thing, with stamped steel wheels having features such as a raised area under the lug which could flex somewhat at installation, the obvious degree c'sink, the closely-fit center register and the fact that the wheel there was designed to fit the car which had the guaranteed right stud length.
Aftermarket wheels changed all that and created a bunch of ways to screw up, some of which are confusingly addressed in the OP's installation slip which doesn't quite inspire a compelling urge to follow the good instructions that are there. Besides the usual backwards-nut thing which really is a dumb move and would be indicator 1 that someone shouldn't be working on cars, I've seen a couple others lately: Cast-aluminum wheels using hardware store washers to space out for caliper clearance.
Wheel-to-backing interface is vital, and slipping operative word flatwashers in there which are almost guaranteed to be of slightly different thicknesses as well as defeating the friction needed between the two surfaces is an invitation to the deal where the car is on one side of the freeway and the wheel over there on the other.
The studs alone can't do the job of holding a wheel on straight and tight without flat precise mating surfaces. When we got our little wagon last year, I noticed a couple missing broken-away studs behind the aftermarket wheels. I detected the seller being a little cagey about it Pulling it apart I saw those washers and how the nuts barely engaged the studs New studs and nuts , clean mating surfaces, eliminating the washers and then machining off the back of the wheels for caliper clearance in what was a non-critical area fixed it, machining was easily done here but would have been worth anyone spending a couple-hundred bucks at a shop.
And do know, for whatever use as spacers you might employ flatwashers, one box of washers may have been made on multiple machines using whatever stock thickness the manufacturer stuck in there and will often vary in thickness 5- or thousanths. If you need them to function as a matched set, measure with a mic and make sure you know what you've got. Behind a wheel, especially a rigid cast one, using varied-thickness washers is even stupider than just using washers period.
Seananigans View Profile View Posts. Left side of the car lugnuts are reverse threaded. Lugnuts are left loose, right tight always. Last edited by Seananigans ; 30 Jul, pm.
Showing 1 - 6 of 6 comments. Rizzle View Profile View Posts. The theory was that the nuts where less likely to come loose if tightened in the direction of vehicle travel never realy made snse to me tho.
Benny View Profile View Posts. Took the car on the testing patch? If so it's a bug as it messes all the wheel nuts doing so. I'm sure there are cars that are like this in real life but I have worked on cars for years, mostly european, and I have never seen this on a car before.
Every car in the game is like this. It seems more like they just copied one side of the car to the other instead of it being an intentional thing. Last edited by Seananigans ; 3 Aug, pm. Yeah I haven't seen it for a long time cetainly not on what I currently work on vw audi bmw.
But thought I'd throw the info up because I've seen videos and comments all over the net aout it.
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