Trouble on the way home last night

[d_dan]

Oh dear god....


coming home just after leaving bernards yesterday I started hearing some sort of light clunk. ((hit a big pot hole on the way down) so thought it was a buckled alloy.

Pulled in and couldnt notice anything.

The further i drove the worse it began to get. THen started thinking had the wheel bearing went?
By the time i got to nenagh it was terrable so plodded along slowly.

By the time I was nearly home i couldnt drive anymore it was gettng beond a joke. (on the off chance that it was a buckled) i changed to the spair wheel.

When to my horror I found that all the wheel bolts had rung and that the studs had nothing to grip but a few threads at the end and the clunking noise was the wheel vibrating. I was lucky to give up when i did and that i was taking it handy because i recon the wheel would have came off before i got home.


So the cars up on jack at my other halfs house with the spacers off as i try get my hands on a 5 stud wheel hub so i can actually put the wheel abck on.

[Muad_dib77]

Oh damn - that's annoying..

Rory should be able to hook you up with some replacement studs though so all is not lost..

[Mickthepieman]

I hope you get it fixed okay, lucky you stopped when you did.

[TopCat]

Might have some good news for you, the studs themselves are actually seperate to the hub that holds them all together, so you might be able to just get 5 studs. The studs themselves should just pop out of the hub if you hit them with a hammer from the front.
Bad luck though still, but at least you were wise and pulled in, sounds like it could've been a lot worse!

[steelroe]

Which side dan??

[d_dan]

front left,


you managed to spot the really bad one the other day and replaced that for me (fair play man) but the others wernt far behind by the looks of things.



@ topcat.

cars back on the road.
took off the wheel spacer and mounted the wheel the "normal way" onto the hub for now, need to get 5 new bolts

[colm_mcm]

jaysus, that's bad.

[steelroe]

You dont need those spacers, the wheels are only 35 offset.

[d_dan]

there 45 but yea... i took them and it seems to be grand. so will do untill i can get 5 new bolts

[steelroe]

The studs holding on the spacers looked a bit shorter than standard ones. You sure you have enough thread to tighten up the wheel enough.

[d_dan]

yea ahh shoudl do me a few days till i get my hands on replacment ones somewhere

[Dragonheart]

Christ dan I thought twas your caliper was causing trouble? Lucky you spotted it.

[d_dan]

so did i when i text ya thought it was the inside pads again but then i found out what it was

[colm_mcm]

did you forget to tighten the wheel nuts when you swapped the suspension?

[d_dan]

no the bolt threads were worn

[colm_mcm]

what'd cause them to wear?

[d_dan]

your guess is as good as mine

[colm_mcm]

the stud holes of a loose wheel rubbing against the threads on the bolts?

[steelroe]

When did you fit the coilovers?
I would check the other side aswell!

[d_dan]

As soon as I got home Friday only took me about an hour and a half

[colm_mcm]

If that happened me, I'd be inclined to check all the nuts that were touched last Friday just to be certain.

[steelroe]

Dan I agree with colm here. you seemed to have got everything done really quick. As a rule I would always check every think twice, it can be very easy to overlook something. Did you tighten the studs when the wheel was back on the ground?

[d_dan]

the young lad who was with me on Friday put them on, but those studs always seemed to loosen a few days after any wheel work was. Done

[misterbishi]

the stud holes of a loose wheel rubbing against the threads on the bolts?

I had a similar noise about a month a go and was not driving it for a couple of days until I had chance to look at it. Because I thiught it was a damaged pad I ordered mintex pads to replace the origonals.. When I went to change the pads, I found a few slightly loose wheel nuts!