Wheel nut woes - same size socket will do

[DSdriver]

I had new tyres put on the back of the XM last week. Today I needed to go int Halfrauds to get some spade terminals for the back lights on the Safari so I took the XM. Half way there it started feeling a bit odd at the back so I stopped to see if I had a puncture. Tyre pressures were good but the wheel bolts on the nearside were all over the place. I managed to tighten up three and took a nut from the other side to make four tight connections. Two bolts are totally f*cked and the threads in the hub are just as bad. 

Helicoils or a replacement hub?

I will be asking questions at the tyre fitting company first thing tomorrow. Like if there was already a problem why didn't they tell me and if there wasn't how did they make such a mess of changing a tyre, something they do all the time.

[Partridge]

If the tyre fitters damaged it, get them to pay for the damage. And make it out to as bad as possible.

[overrun]

Did your wheels attempt to fall off before you had the tyre replaced?

 

No?

 

Then it's obvious who the blame lies with. Give them hell.

[chaseracer]

/\ This.

[skattrd]

It sounds like they used a gun to put the wheel nuts back on and fucked up the threads. This is why I always put them on by hand, even if there is an impact gun or whatever available.

[Pillock]

Tell them nuns died. Schoolgirl kitten-nuns.

[Mr Livered]

Those bloody rattle gun things are responsible for loads of stripped threads, buggered nuts, mutilated kittens and excessively tight wheel nuts.

[Richard]

 

Helicoils would do the job but if it was me I'd be happier with a replacement hub. There's always the risk of winding a helicoil out when you have to change a wheel at the side of the road in the pissing rain.

[overrun]

I heart my impact gun, but I always start threads off by hand.

 

Asphinctersezwhat?

[DSdriver]

OK, whoever pays for it I'm going to need a replacement hub and a set of wheel bolts.

Anyone breaking an XM? Or knows anyone breaking an XM? Is the hub the same as Xantia/Peugeot/horsey horseless?

[Pillock]

Wasn't there a link on the eBay thread with someone breaking 19 XMs or something?

[Pillock]

This one in fact!

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1998-R-CITROEN-XM-VSX-TD-AUTO-BREAKING-FOR-SPARES-12-XMS-TO-BE-BROKEN-UP-/181304489989

 

 

 

Hmm, everyone's got to make a living I suppose, I wonder at what point there are more cars being broken than there are cars to fit all these 'spares' onto?

[Bren]

I suppose we can laugh, but plenty of poor innocent bastards have been killed because of such incompetence.

 

Go in and play holy fuck with them.

[ruffgeezer]

We may well have the parts in stock, I'll check tomorrow if I manage to remember!

[DSdriver]

 Ruffgeezer is an ace geezer

[DSdriver]

Safari back lights rewired so I can use that as a back up vehicle for the XM instead of the other way around.

[Lankytim]

I have a hub! £30 delivered innit?

[DSdriver]

PM will be sent to Lankytim as soon as I work out where the PM button has gone

[Richard]

Hover over his name and a window will pop up.

[DSdriver]

Hover over his name and a window will pop up.

The parrot found it for me, stomping across the keyboard. He keeps opening windows that I didn't know existed. Amazing really cos his head is so far in front of his feet he has no idea where he is putting them.

Lankytim is sending me a hub and bolts this week. Stand by for OMGwrongbitdrama. 

[Lankytim]

I've never been found by a parrot before!