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Title: Rear wheel bolt snapped
Post by: teddington man on 21 September 2014, 10:10:15
Hi guys on Friday I had two rear tyres fitted. Yesterday I had to remove the wheels as I had to adjust the handbrake for mot and when undoing the wheel bolts I saw that one of the wheel bolts was in on an angel so rang the garage that fitted the tyres and said sorry it wasn't us then I said if that's the case the bolt would of snapped on you then at that point he hang up on me lol. Anyways I tried getting it out myself by working it out but no luck as snapped. How can I get this out
Title: Re: Rear wheel bolt snapped
Post by: JamesV6CDX on 21 September 2014, 10:46:05
If they fitted the wheel with a bolt visibly on an angle then kick up stink!!!
Title: Re: Rear wheel bolt snapped
Post by: 05omegav6 on 21 September 2014, 10:47:04
Remove the other four bolts, pop the wheel off and unwind it :y

Oh, and name/shame the garage and never use them again >:(
Title: Re: Rear wheel bolt snapped
Post by: teddington man on 21 September 2014, 12:43:23
Remove the other four bolts, pop the wheel off and unwind it :y

Oh, and name/shame the garage and never use them again >:(

Was it was that easy its flush with the hub :(
Title: Re: Rear wheel bolt snapped
Post by: flyer 0712 on 21 September 2014, 13:14:58
Drill it in centre and work up drill size as you go until you have it as large as possible,and then use heat with easy outs...but beware and use a decent set as if that breaks then virtually to drill them  :y
Title: Re: Rear wheel bolt snapped
Post by: 05omegav6 on 21 September 2014, 22:24:02
Remove the other four bolts, pop the wheel off and unwind it :y

Oh, and name/shame the garage and never use them again >:(

Was it was that easy its flush with the hub :(
Ok, whip the disc off too... This will give you summat to get a grip on :y
Title: Re: Rear wheel bolt snapped
Post by: GastronomicKleptomaniac on 21 September 2014, 22:44:48
I hate garages like that. Jesu Christo, we all have messed up when doing a job (managing to get a drill through the side of a battery springs immediately to mind...) - you ring the customer, explain that an unfortunate incident has occurred, we will fix it at our cost and we are very very sorry...