Puncture goes mental- the latest.

[gtd2000]

What's wrong with this simple equation?

 

 

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Or, am I missing something here???

[gtd2000]

Here's how to get the wheel off

 

http://www.honda-tech.com/showthread.php?t=2684546

 

That's ridiculous

[Luxobarges_Are_Us]

right, that's a definite NO from the third garage...

[Volksy]

Is it an original manufacturer supplied locking wheel nut?

 

If so have you contacted the dealer to see if you can get a replacement key/socket?

 

I cant be arsed to read through all the thread to see if this has been asked before.

[Luxobarges_Are_Us]

Is it an original manufacturer supplied locking wheel nut?

 

If so have you contacted the dealer to see if you can get a replacement key/socket?

 

I cant be arsed to read through all the thread to see if this has been asked before.

 

I have (what looks like) the key, but the nut has been deformed and generally fucked by previous attempts to remove it.

[Volksy]

These worked pretty well when I used to be on the spanners.

[Luxobarges_Are_Us]

I did a few google searches for it, it seems like that the AA have been reported as being able to sort it out. I will ring the RAC to see whether I get any joy...

[tonedepear]

Where have you been so far? I'm willing to wager the place at the bottom of my road would be able to do it for a fiver, and if not there's loads of proper old fashioned garages in sheff who would shirley laugh in the face of a slightly borked locking nut.

[Guest]

I got a flat.

I live in it.

and the Helpful bit....a 5 or 6 sided socket (whatever they are) that's a smidge too small, a hammer and give it death and it'll come off. The shock off whacking the beejesus out of it will unseize it if seized.

It really really is not hard, now recessed alloys nuts on a Porker that have blown like school crystal growing experiments...thats a fooker!

[Luxobarges_Are_Us]

Top Tread Tyres, St Mary's road. They definitely look shite enough- they even have a disused Sherpa/Pilot parked outside the shop that they use for storage.

The place I went to yesterday was in Dinnington.

 

The other two were about a month ago, when I was changing the front tyres. One was somewhere at the top of City Road, where they couldn't even undo the front wheels, and the second was in London that broke off the nuts on 3 out of 4....and, of course, I got the puncture on the fourth.

[tonedepear]

I know kwik fit on city road pretty well. Mixed experiences, as KF's go, they're actually pretty good, but they're still shit, obv.

 

W D Motors at the bottom of Linley Lane (S12) are proper bodgers, and def worth giving them a ring. I bet they'd weld sommat on to it if you asked nicely. They're usually quite busy, and only open half day on fridays I think. Wayne (the mechanic) is a good lad though. About the only place I actually trust to be honest. And VALUE.

[Justin Case]

Sorry Luxo, but couldn't this have gone in the News 24 thread?

 

However, I was, and still am, fuming about the situation...3 'specialist' tyre garages (i.e. 'mechanics' who only deal with tyres all day and probably couldn't do an oil change to save their lives), the last one had it for over 5 hours, and it's still not sorted!

 

Sorry Luxo, but couldn't this have gone in the GOM thread?

[John F]

I'm actually getting quite excited about this now.

 

Will one of Luxo's local garages have a hammer and a socket, and have the mechanical imagination to be able to combine the two to remove the pesky wheelnut?

 

Tune in next time folks...

[Luxobarges_Are_Us]

Just picked the bloody thing up again. Turns out I was wrong...Instead of it being totally stuck, it's kinda broken and spinning freely without much else happening. Still, we all know there are things they could've tried if they could have been arsed.

 

I know kwik fit on city road pretty well. Mixed experiences, as KF's go, they're actually pretty good, but they're still shit, obv.

 

It obviously wasn't Kwik Fit. I only go there for the free oil top-ups.

 

W D Motors at the bottom of Linley Lane (S12) are proper bodgers, and def worth giving them a ring. I bet they'd weld sommat on to it if you asked nicely. They're usually quite busy, and only open half day on fridays I think. Wayne (the mechanic) is a good lad though. About the only place I actually trust to be honest. And VALUE.

 

If I get no joy from the RAC, I will drive there and just tell them 'I don't mind if you're busy, take your sweet time, keep it for a week or charge me an extra tenner or two...just get rid of the bugger!'

[tonedepear]

Just picked the bloody thing up again. Turns out I was wrong...Instead of it being totally stuck, it's kinda broken and spinning freely without much else happening. Still, we all know there are things they could've tried if they could have been arsed.

 

I know kwik fit on city road pretty well. Mixed experiences, as KF's go, they're actually pretty good, but they're still shit, obv.

 

It obviously wasn't Kwik Fit. I only go there for the free oil top-ups.

 

Bizarrely they were the ONLY place in south yorks who could supply and fit a back box on my 230te w124 not so long ago. And it wasn't eye-wateringly expensive. And it took them about 5 minutes. Kudos.

[504GL]

Top Tread Tyres, St Mary's road. They definitely look shite enough- they even have a disused Sherpa/Pilot parked outside the shop that they use for storage.

The place I went to yesterday was in Dinnington.

 

The other two were about a month ago, when I was changing the front tyres. One was somewhere at the top of City Road, where they couldn't even undo the front wheels, and the second was in London that broke off the nuts on 3 out of 4....and, of course, I got the puncture on the fourth.

 

Very good reason why no one else takes wheels off my car, only me......

[TimothyClaypole]

If it was Mets you went to in Dinnington then that was a waste of time. They are rubbish.

 

I took my BMW alloys there and they just moaned the valve shoulders were different and couldn't fit any valves/tyres.

 

Went to A&P Tyres in Rotherham, all sorted with some alloy valves and no crying/fuss from the fitter.

 

(You should have popped in on your way past and let me knacker it up for free.)

[Pillock]

I went to get a puncture repair but THE MAN said it had been run too low and was unrepairable. Second time that's happened although the first time I could actually see where the inside of the sidewall was all flaky. Gave him a good excuse to fit £160 worth of new boots which didn't fill me with joy but at least they're new.

 

Oh yeah, turns out some spacker had fitted 235s at the back and 215s at the front. It was a 235 that had gone, the other 235 was pretty low with less than 2mm on so I could either pay more for a 235 now (being unable to mix sizes on an "axle") and then have to pay more for another 235 pretty soon, or get two 215s so it's all back on the right size.

[Luxobarges_Are_Us]

Hands up whoever's surprised that RAC are the latest member of my FAILING LIST! Hammer and chisel action came to nothing, he reckons drilling to be the only way forward (obviously I am not going to attempt that myself because, apart from lacking a proper power drill, I'd probably screw the brake disc instead of sorting the wheel).

 

If it was Mets you went to in Dinnington then that was a waste of time. They are rubbish.

 

Yes, that's the one. Quite friendly but not very clued up.

 

(You should have popped in on your way past and let me knacker it up for free.)

 

Seriously, I'd be more than happy to buy you a few pints if you manage to undo the barsteward. It's not frustrating anymore- it's completely fucking ridiculous...bordering on the amusing!

[gtd2000]

Can you answer one completely fucking ridiculous simple question?

 

Q: Why is it not possible to hammer on a slightly undersized socket?

[Pete-M]

Just go to a proper garage and ask them to get the offending wheelnut off. I had this with the Heep, tried welding bloody big bars to it, hammering sockets over, welding bars to the nut etc. Nothing worked.

 

Went to my mates garage and he said "Ah, had a go have ya?" pulled out a special "awkward wheelnut removing" socket and undid it as if it wasn't a problem at all. Not all tyre places have these sockets, so try any good garage.

[gtd2000]

I think the real problem here lies with "Luxobarges_Are_Useless" not being able to convey what the actual problem is and what has actually been attempted to try to mitigate the problem.

 

To me it seems that people are giving sound advice (going unheeded) and Luxo_Totally_Buggered is running/limping around town without a bloody clue

[Shep Shepherd]

Just go to a proper garage and ask them to get the offending wheelnut off. I had this with the Heep, tried welding bloody big bars to it, hammering sockets over, welding bars to the nut etc. Nothing worked.

 

Went to my mates garage and he said "Ah, had a go have ya?" pulled out a special "awkward wheelnut removing" socket and undid it as if it wasn't a problem at all. Not all tyre places have these sockets, so try any good garage.

 

I had my local garage remove TV2's knackered locking wheel bolts using that method a few months ago. They charged me £40 for the privilege, but at least I can get the wheels off now

[Luxobarges_Are_Us]

Can you answer one completely fucking ridiculous simple question?

 

Q: Why is it not possible to hammer on a slightly undersized socket?

 

I don't have one myself- I did suggest it to the fastfit centre I went to yesterday ...who then went on to ignore the suggestion. I don't know what exactly the tyre place did today.

 

 

I have been trying to heed the advice...I haven't even got a proper hammer to try things on- I came back to Blighty in April with just a couple of suitcases, so I'm still very low on 'stuff'.

 

I've told the various people who had a go at various points in time: 'hammer and chisel', 'drill the bastard', 'weld something on', but they are either too thick or just can't be bothered.

 

I think Pete's idea is sound. The garage who fixed the clutch pedal box on the Accord is probably my best bet. They should be big enough to have a good selection of tools, they seemed to know what they're doing and were A-OK in terms of both pricing and timeliness, so I'll give them a go.

[trigger]

Stop poncing about and get yourself down to screwfix and buy a set of these.

 

http://www.screwfix.com/p/laser-emergen ... r%204%20Pc

[Luxobarges_Are_Us]

Their reviews are a bit mixed, though...would they do any good when the outer part of the nut is just spinning freely?

[Guest]

Tis a pity you're not in Liverpewl mate. Pete-M's mate who bends solid steel breaker bars for fun would have your nuts off in about 30 seconds.

 

In the nicest possible way, I mean. Relevant to the context of this thread. Yeah!

 

Otherwise, I could come up your way and swear at it. I 100% guarantee I won't be able to solve your problem, but the sight of a fat fake Manc flailing ineptly around your car with a socket set is certain to raise a smile or two. Perhaps I could bring my D70 round and bore you to death about how shit my Citroen is.

[TimothyClaypole]

Pick a socket:

 

 

[Luxobarges_Are_Us]

bloody hell! Are you in Rotherham?

[Pete-M]

Tis a pity you're not in Liverpewl mate. Pete-M's mate who bends solid steel breaker bars for fun would have your nuts off in about 30 seconds.

 

In the nicest possible way, I mean. Relevant to the context of this thread. Yeah!

 

He couldn't shift the one on the Heep... that took my secret tame mechanic who works outta town..