I bought a SPA steering wheel and QR system for fitting to the trike a while back. Neither was cheap, but it's an area where I was happy to spend a little more.

Decided to fit the QR to the wheel tonight. Drilled the three holes then put through all three hex-head bolts and tightened the nuts to halfway.

Tightening the bolts started to get a little hard-going when they were coming through the nyloc. I then noticed that the hex-heads on two bolts were starting to slip so stopped to replace for some others. The buggers wouldn't come off, so had to apply a little more force and then the heads rounded completely!

Never-mind... I'll get the bolts off. Er, no I won't... they're made of butter too and stripped with little persuasion!

Had to cut them off with the Dremel and have marked the face of the wheel-centre pretty badly

Why bother supplying cheap sh*te fasteners with supposed high quality goods???

I am livid!

i feel 4 you mate. i put new wheels on my imp. got them from the land of oz and some c*** killed em up at zcars using them as a work bench chin up pal all the best paul

And zcars are not paying for a refurb?

Thats bad news, I would of expected better from them. They make some nice kit.

What a load of monkeys!

Cheers Paul... I've calmed down a bit now!!!

Anyway, mine is but a minor annoyance compared to the level off nasties that you've had to face on your journey!

That does sound naff to me - although it doesn't surprise me. These days everyone is out to cut their costs somewhere, but a few pence in on fasteners in relation to a "premium" product seems cheeky!

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Originally posted by nick205
That does sound naff to me - although it doesn't surprise me. These days everyone is out to cut their costs somewhere, but a few pence in on fasteners in relation to a "premium" product seems cheeky!

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Were the fasteners you had problems tightening stainless steel?
Somtimes, if a nut and bolt are both stainless both surfaces will bind tight onto each other, before the components are under clamping load.
The solution is to lubricate the threads, or only have one of the threads in stainless.

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Originally posted by ceebmoj
[The thing is you would be happier with no fasteners than pants ones being bundled.

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I guess this is precisely what Di-Noc was invented for

Could be worse, my other half just spent 16k on a new nissan duke that managed to do 249 miles before the gearbox collapsed. Car arrived 30th sep, broke down 5th oct and its been at harrats nissan ever since !!. Apparently the new gearbox is being delivered from japan by horse and cart.

Not good!