SteveWalker
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| posted on 11/11/21 at 08:13 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by Mr Whippy
I once had a phone call from my sister who was coming back from work complaining of a knocking noise coming from her Golf. I told her to take it round
and I'd have a look at it, only to find every single wheel nut loose and the wheels literally rocking all over the place. Turned out the local
garage had serviced her brakes but for some reason had forgot to actually tighten up the wheels after. As you'd expect she was very unhappy and
then blamed me for recommending the garage too! She'd done 40 miles on the dual carriageway like this 
So kinda like the opposite of your problem...
I once got rid of a car because a Nissan dealer did such an awful job during a warranty repair (turbo and fuel pump ... an electronically controlled,
mechanically driven pump on the back of the engine). It was an engine out job, scheduled for a week, but it took two as they knackered the water pump
while they were doing it and it delayed things.
When returned to me (lots of hassle getting that sorted and lots of lost work hours - unpaid), I got to drive home on a wet seat (it was Friday and
they'd just valeted it, despite the work being finished on Wednesday).
The exhaust had been reassembled with a twist and knocked on the tunnel at low revs, the driver's side door mirror surround was cracked, one of
the rear mats was missing and replaced with a non-matching one, the power steering pump was noisy (turned out they'd knackered that and it had
to be replaced), during the valeting, they'd slammed the seat back up, punching a hole through a rear seat-belt, but the big one, that left me
not trusting the safety of anything they might have touched at all, was when I came to change the brake pads a month later and found that I'd
been driving around with a broken split pin in one hub and none at all in the other, as they'd re-used the old ones, which had cracked apart and
were rolling around loosely behind the alloy wheel centre caps!
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James
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| posted on 12/11/21 at 01:23 PM |
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The wheel nut wrench supplied with my Pug 406 (presumably Peugeot supplied) folded like butter when I stood on it after getting a puncture along a
dark country road last winter.
I had a long, late-night walk home to get my Teng breaker and then an equally long and even later walk back to change the wheel and get the car home!
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crimondbanger
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| posted on 19/11/21 at 11:23 PM |
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No point using a torque wrench if the nuts/threads/crusty alloy wheels arent cleaned up. Hence most garages over torque to cover there arses, no one
will pay an extra 40 quid to do the last guys job.
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