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[Rangie]

My father in law was a Jaguar trained mechanic he taught my wife how to change a wheel set points and change oil & filters, then she met me..😂

[TheBoy]

You don't know how lucky you are Chris - when we met up a for the last couple of visits at the one at Accrington, it was great to see her passing you tools, carrying the parts you'd taken off and patiently waiting whilst all the good stuff was removed from that Omega! Can't see my wife going anywhere near a breakers - it takes me all my time to get her to travel in my Omegas (apparantly, they are big, heavy, 'old man' cars )!!

I have to promise Mrs TB an ice cream or lunch if she comes around the scrappers with me

[TheBoy]

My father in law was a Jaguar trained mechanic he taught my wife how to change a wheel set points and change oil & filters, then she met me..😂

Mrs TB knows how to change a wheel, but cant do the wheels on my car due to the weight of them, and having to line them up on the studs whilst fighting the weight.

I'll let her off, as I often struggle!

[dave the builder]

My father in law was a Jaguar trained mechanic he taught my wife how to change a wheel set points and change oil & filters, then she met me..😂

Mrs TB knows how to change a wheel, but cant do the wheels on my car due to the weight of them, and having to line them up on the studs whilst fighting the weight.

I'll let her off, as I often struggle!

There used to be a tool in the Jag or Merc  tool kit previously (20+ years ago )
a bar about 9" long ,coated in the centre with grey plastic , you insert it through a wheel hole ,
pick the wheel up and insert the tool into a hub hole to align the holes
and it takes the weight while you insert a couple of wheel bolts

a bit like a Scaffolder's podger

[Doctor Gollum]

There still is... Presuming it has a spare and tool kit.

[Rangie]

My father in law was a Jaguar trained mechanic he taught my wife how to change a wheel set points and change oil & filters, then she met me..😂

Mrs TB knows how to change a wheel, but cant do the wheels on my car due to the weight of them, and having to line them up on the studs whilst fighting the weight.

I'll let her off, as I often struggle!

There used to be a tool in the Jag or Merc  tool kit previously (20+ years ago )
a bar about 9" long ,coated in the centre with grey plastic , you insert it through a wheel hole ,
pick the wheel up and insert the tool into a hub hole to align the holes
and it takes the weight while you insert a couple of wheel bolts

a bit like a Scaffolder's podger

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Got a couple of them very useful when taking the caravan wheels off my 190e came with two complete tool kits when I bought it many years ago, and about 5 of those locators.

[countrywoman]

Need to go to my local scrappy and see if I can find some Astra window lift bits that fit to the door windows so the Omega mechs will fit the Austin glass.

[Andy B]

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There used to be a tool in the Jag or Merc  tool kit previously (20+ years ago )
a bar about 9" long ,coated in the centre with grey plastic , you insert it through a wheel hole ,
pick the wheel up and insert the tool into a hub hole to align the holes
and it takes the weight while you insert a couple of wheel bolts

a bit like a Scaffolder's podger

There's one in the boot of my ML but as it lives under the spare wheel, it's easier to manage without it than it is to remove the spare to get it.

[YZ250]

There used to be a tool in the Jag or Merc  tool kit previously (20+ years ago )
a bar about 9" long ,coated in the centre with grey plastic , you insert it through a wheel hole ,
pick the wheel up and insert the tool into a hub hole to align the holes
and it takes the weight while you insert a couple of wheel bolts ......

The wheel alignment pin is still fitted in Audi toolkits.    It's handy for both removal and refitting the wheel and as you say, it takes the weight of the wheel while you remove the last bolt and when you align it over the hub upon refitting. They're readily available to buy for any car. 

[TheBoy]

JLR, in their wisdom, no longer include it. I suppose they just assume that a Jag owner will just leave it with a man to sort it...

[Kevin Wood]

JLR, in their wisdom, no longer include it. I suppose they just assume that a Jag owner will just leave it with a man to sort it...

Given that they CBA with a spare wheel on my XE, it wouldn't have been much use anyway.

[TheBoy]

JLR, in their wisdom, no longer include it. I suppose they just assume that a Jag owner will just leave it with a man to sort it...

Given that they CBA with a spare wheel on my XE, it wouldn't have been much use anyway.

And I bet the gunk is out of date.  And nobody knows how to use it anyway, and just shove it in with the air, and wonders why it doesn't work, and....

...breath!


KW - loads of breakers tend to sell spare wheel kits (wheel, foam insert with jack/wrench etc), new boot floor and the longer standoff.  I paid around £140.  Well worth it IMHO.  Though I had to make a new standoff, as there appear to be 2 thread sizes, M6 and M8.  Bit of M8 rod, some nuts and a 3d printer solved that.

[Kevin Wood]

JLR, in their wisdom, no longer include it. I suppose they just assume that a Jag owner will just leave it with a man to sort it...

Given that they CBA with a spare wheel on my XE, it wouldn't have been much use anyway.

And I bet the gunk is out of date.  And nobody knows how to use it anyway, and just shove it in with the air, and wonders why it doesn't work, and....

...breath!


KW - loads of breakers tend to sell spare wheel kits (wheel, foam insert with jack/wrench etc), new boot floor and the longer standoff.  I paid around £140.  Well worth it IMHO.  Though I had to make a new standoff, as there appear to be 2 thread sizes, M6 and M8.  Bit of M8 rod, some nuts and a 3d printer solved that.

I have an extra full-size wheel in the garage, so could probably sort myself out if anything goes wrong relatively locally. Further afield, I'd probably have a boot full of junk, so not sure I'd be happy losing the boot space to it.

I also have a set of puncture repair plugs that have sorted out the odd screw in a tyre before. Granted the only tyre failure I (well, mrs. KW) have had on the XE would have been a struggle to repair because the wheel dropped off the edge of a road with a non-existent verge and the inside sidewall basically ceased to exist.

That was only really awkward because she was on the way to rescue me when the battery in the Westfield carked it so it was 2 simultaneous roadside callouts.

[TheBoy]

It lifts the back part of the boot so it is level with the front part - ie, there is no step in the boot floor.  So you don't lose much boot space unless you need that small area of extra height.

If you already have the wheel, a bit of plywood would do the floor - use mine as a template one curry night - and 3d print the tools insert, or attack some polystyrene with a knife...

And the area that stored the gunk stuff becomes free for other crap - jump leads, mini toolkit and the compressor from the gunk kit in our case

We also fitted the side net kits on ours (both sides, even though the kit only fits the left without modification), though might be less useful to you as you probably have a bloody great amp there .  Also, the Omega's floor net is a reasonable fit in the XE. And XJ.

[Kevin Wood]

Oh, my wheel; is a full size one, so I'd lose plenty of boot as it stands.

But it might be worth looking out for a space saver, I suppose.