Stuck wheels - how to remove?

[Richard]

Jack up and support one end of car, remove all nuts on raised wheels, use scissor/bottle jack horizontally in conjunction with sturdy wooden post to jack wheels apart, moving around the wheels and applying percussion as required. When one wheel comes off replace it with correct wheel and repeat for other wheel.

[cort16]

^^^ that's a good idea

[Taff]

Jack up and support one end of car, remove all nuts on raised wheels, use scissor/bottle jack horizontally in conjunction with sturdy wooden post to jack wheels apart, moving around the wheels and applying percussion as required. When one wheel comes off replace it with correct wheel and repeat for other wheel.

 

pah! take your common sense approach and do one, mister

 

OP, take odd all the wheel nuts bar one and give it an Italian tune up on the M4, that should shift them

[barefoot]

Or if all else fails, take it down to the Quick Fit Monkeys,

who normally use so much inappropriate force they might not even notice it was stuck & if they did...

Just hammer a smaller Quick Fit Monkey over the ape who can't get your wheel off.

[DSdriver]

Once you have got the wheels off I hope you are going to do the job the Autoshite way and just remove a bit of metal from the inside face of the boss holes in the wheels with a half round file.

[drum]

Loosen nuts and let your wife park it next to the kerb.

[CHRIS1980]

Sell it!

[UltraWomble]

Have you fettled this yet Richard?

[skattrd]

Beat the inside of the wheel ( not tyre) with a good size  hammer and a block of wood . Keep turning the wheel as you do it

 

This is the technique I've used before,  .. with increasing sizes of wood and hammer.

 

I like Richard's idea of the fence post and jack, but it's probably not as satisfying as belting it with a bfo hammer.

[Vladimir Putin]

I appreciate that you may not have access to armoured vehicles but if you do, that would be my first choice

 

How many armoured vehicles you want to borrow?

 

Medvedev delivery service available.

[dieselnutjob]

If you took the car to a garage with a rolling road that's used for testing cars' brakes for the M.O.T. test would they not help you? If the car were to be driven onto the rolling road, a suitable soft support placed under the car at strategic points and the wheel nuts then removed, application of the car brakes while the rolling road is turning might free them off? The ensuing noise of the wheels freeing off might be pretty loud, and the car would need to be jacked up from the garage floor, but if it lands of soft supports no harm would be done. Sounds a safer option than doughnuts in a PC world car park.....

 

I was also thinking you could get the front wheels up in the air and spin them up to 100mph and then stamp on the brakes.  The problem is that when the wheel comes off it will dissappear at some speed and likely kill someone.  The same problem would be true of the rolling road idea.

[skattrd]

To stop the wheel flying off you screw a bolt or two in loosely, that way it can release from the hub without coming off completely

[r.welfare]

I like all of these ideas but Richard's sounds the most sensible. Will look into putting into action at the weekend. For the moment the stuck-on wheels are doing a good job of propelling the car around.

[Timewaster]

To stop the wheel flying off you screw a bolt or two in loosely, that way it can release from the hub without coming off completely

I have the scars and bruises to prove this is a good idea.

[twosmoke300]

Deffo leave a bolt or two in ! It's not funny when it bounces into a new car having a pdi done on the next ramp 😡

[r.welfare]

Well, a virtual pint and hat tip to Richard - the jack/fence post combo did the job this morning.  Pictures and blurb in the "Zoom-zoom my arse" thread.

[Alexg]

I had a similar issue I supported the front on an axle stand, with a jack for back-up, lay underneath the car and kicked/stamped the wheel and tyre outwards. Bit fucking dangerous come to think of it.

[Christine]

I had a similar issue I supported the front on an axle stand, with a jack for back-up, lay underneath the car and kicked/stamped the wheel and tyre outwards. Bit fucking dangerous come to think of it.

Nope. Shitters are invincible..

[Datsuncog]

Stuck wheel, eh?

In an effort to solve the issue with the Yaris' recalcitrant brakes, I jacked up the back and noted that there was definitely something binding on the offside.

But getting the wheel off was more difficult than expected.

Two wheel nuts came off just dandy.

One was weirdly stiff, all the way along the threaded stud.

The other...

Yup, the stud just sheared off with very little force applied.

And the wheel still wouldn't come off the hub.

Slathering it in penetrating oil over the course of a week didn't do anything.

Battering it from the inside edge with a fence board and a mallet while rotating it was plenty noisy but didn't shift it a bit.

Driving it up and down the driveway with the (remaining) nuts slackened did nothing.

Hauling away with a five-foot crowbar and a two foot jemmy bar pushed down between drum and rim did not yield any results.

In the end, just as I was trying to see if any stores within a fifteen mile radius could furnish me with a very large hub puller late on a Saturday afternoon, MrsDC gave the wheel a hefty donkey kick to one side and damn if it didn't pop right off.

So TL,DR: that's +1 for the @beko1987method of foot-based brutality mentioned upthread to remove a stuck wheel.

[IronStar]

Laying on the ground, then kicking it with full force from the inside always worked for me. 
The trick I saw tyre places use is having a HUGE FUCKOFF BAR, think truck propshaft and wacking it with that from the inside, on the bottom of the tyre. 

[Rust Collector]

1 hour ago, Datsuncog said:

MrsDC gave the wheel a hefty donkey kick to one side and damn if it didn't pop right off.

Putting my boots on and giving stuck wheels a fucking hard kick to the bottom edge of the tyre is my go to.

I dimly recall that not working one time on my shogun, and that was rectified by taking the spare wheel out and swinging that into the bottom edge of the offending wheel.

[Rustybullethole]

On 22/07/2015 at 11:58, DSdriver said:

Once you have got the wheels off I hope you are going to do the job the Autoshite way and just remove a bit of metal from the inside face of the boss holes in the wheels with a half round file.

Did this with a set of mini steels on a golf. Got boring so went for tolerance fit. BFH required when i next needed tyres. 

They'll need a proper smack down to get them off. The kind of smack down where you really want the car as steady as possible and still keep your body out of the drop zone.