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So, you have just had new tyres fitted to your work vehicle wheels by a tyre company.


Q.What is the first thing that you should now do?


A. Check that you can undo the wheel nuts/bolts so that you can change a wheel if you have a puncture.


My work vehicle had 4 new tyres fitted a few months ago. I have had a squeaky wheel so I though that I would attend to the brakes as I thought that they were binding. The wheel bolts had been tightened so much that I broke the locking wheel bolt  key of the locking wheel bolts. I have used that key many times before and it has been fine. The tyre company had really overtightened the wheel bolts when fitting the new tyres. I managed to get the locking wheel bolt off after about an hour with much difficulty. You don't want to be out one cold dark winter night with a puncture only to find that you can't get your flat tyre changed.


A video for the very patient.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-dr38wV7nA


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    I've not had to break off a locking wheel nut yet, but I know someone who had his fancy alloy wheels pinched, and all they did was to break the bolt heads with a very large hammer an chisel.

    This was actually worse than if there had been no lock bolt, as then the brake hubs had the snapped off bit of stud in to be removed.



    I can second the welding trick works, and not just for wheel nuts but all manner of sheared off fittings. welding steel near aluminium is quite safe as the aluminium is such good conductor of heat, that it does not even get a little but mellted. I nearly did it today for real with a stud snapped off in the catalytic converter, but in the end it came out stuck to the end of the left hand drill bit I was trying first.
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    I've not had to break off a locking wheel nut yet, but I know someone who had his fancy alloy wheels pinched, and all they did was to break the bolt heads with a very large hammer an chisel.

    This was actually worse than if there had been no lock bolt, as then the brake hubs had the snapped off bit of stud in to be removed.



    I can second the welding trick works, and not just for wheel nuts but all manner of sheared off fittings. welding steel near aluminium is quite safe as the aluminium is such good conductor of heat, that it does not even get a little but mellted. I nearly did it today for real with a stud snapped off in the catalytic converter, but in the end it came out stuck to the end of the left hand drill bit I was trying first.
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