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Omega Help Area => Omega General Help => Topic started by: Kate on 15 April 2015, 22:57:38
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Hi all.
I've bought some elite alloys to replace the steel wheels on my 2000 estate.
Will I need new wheel bolts or will the existing ones do? The garage in my street advised me to find out.
TIA. :y
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Old ones fine.
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Old ones fine.
Thanks Chris. :y
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Should I change them myself or let the garage do it?
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Should I change them myself or let the garage do it?
Personally I would change them myself, might be tempted not to if I didn't have access to a trolley jack though.
Odds on are the fronts will need rebalancing anyway, so if you dont fancy it or have to mess with a standard car jack on each wheel, find a local 2nd hand tyre place rather than a Garage and get it all done at once.
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Should I change them myself or let the garage do it?
Chances are the wheel bolts will feel like they are welded on , last time i tried it took 2 portly blokes and a scaffold bar to budge the nuts ::)
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Should I change them myself or let the garage do it?
Chances are the wheel bolts will feel like they are welded on , last time i tried it took 2 portly blokes and a scaffold bar to budge the nuts ::)
Ooh er missus... :o ;D
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Should I change them myself or let the garage do it?
At least a 2.5 Jack, axle stands, and a torque wrench capable of 110nm will be needed.
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Should I change them myself or let the garage do it?
At least a 2.5 Jack, axle stands, and a torque wrench capable of 110nm will be needed.
Axle stands to change a wheel.
Wheres them multi folding steps gone,.... I need to change me wipers.
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Should I change them myself or let the garage do it?
You're a woman, Kate.
Simply flutter your eyelashes and look all helpless.
This should get the job done free of charge. :-* :-* :-* :-* :-* :-* :-* :y
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And flash some stocking tops for good measure :y
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I got my housemate to try that as she's better looking than me.
It didn't work though. She's in her fifties. ::)
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Should I change them myself or let the garage do it?
At least a 2.5 Jack, axle stands, and a torque wrench capable of 110nm will be needed.
Axle stands to change a wheel.
Wheres them multi folding steps gone,.... I need to change me wipers.
;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
And a jack to get your car onto ramps ;D ;D ;D
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Should I change them myself or let the garage do it?
At least a 2.5 Jack, axle stands, and a torque wrench capable of 110nm will be needed.
Axle stands to change a wheel.
Wheres them multi folding steps gone,.... I need to change me wipers.
;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
And a jack to get your car onto ramps ;D ;D ;D
To change a wheel? Too much Northants water again. ;D
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Should I change them myself or let the garage do it?
At least a 2.5 Jack, axle stands, and a torque wrench capable of 110nm will be needed.
Axle stands to change a wheel.
Wheres them multi folding steps gone,.... I need to change me wipers.
;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
And a jack to get your car onto ramps ;D ;D ;D
To change a wheel? Too much Northants water again. ;D
#idiot ::)
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Should I change them myself or let the garage do it?
At least a 2.5 Jack, axle stands, and a torque wrench capable of 110nm will be needed.
Axle stands to change a wheel.
Wheres them multi folding steps gone,.... I need to change me wipers.
;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
And a jack to get your car onto ramps ;D ;D ;D
To change a wheel? Too much Northants water again. ;D
#idiot ::)
Says he who bites every single time... ::)
If you have nothing to contribute, don't :-X
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Have these wheels got tyres on?
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Just to add to the thread regarding the wheel studs. People go very 'health and safety' on the things, on the premise that there's no such thing as too tight. Well of course there is. Look at the design of the wheel, and hub, and you'll notice that the hub itself sticks out, and the central bore of the wheel actually sits on this. The wheel studs are there literally to hold the wheel against the hub. They don't - in the strictest engineering sense - hold 'any' weight (of course they do take some force in practice, otherwise they'd be made from plastic). But that's the function of wheel studs - to hold the wheel against the hub, thus allowing the hub to take the weight, as opposed to actually holding the wheel on the hub. For the same reason it's actually dangerous to fit a wheel from another vehicle with even the same PCD, but a different central bore. Because in that instance the wheel studs are actually taking the full weight of the car. :y
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Yes they have tyres on. :y
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And a jack to get your car onto ramps ;D ;D ;D
I've just done that with my daughter's Seicento ..... the front wheels had been driven up a a pair already though :y