MattPym

My brother tried to put on a set of wheel nuts he got from ebay earlier today.... This is what happened when he tried to put it on and take it off again







I adviced him it probably safest if he didnt put the rest on

Chip

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Thread still looks in good order

MattPym

Chip

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Ah, now the other images are there, it would appear that even the thread isnt in good order, lol

Bet your brother is a twat who left positive feedback BEFORE he tried fitting them though

The Youth.

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I use only propper ford ones..
what are they made out of? chocolate??

just noteced the damage was done when tightening he didn't have an air gun on max did he?

steve

lead_foot

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Fuck using Aluminium wheel nuts.

Is this your brother then:

MattPym

No that would have been me that did that haha..... I usually deal with the ebay account and he hadnt left the feedback after 3 weeks so i decided to just get it out of the way

MattPym

Was done using a wheel brace .... damage was done both ways, wheel nut is now lodged in the socket lol

MattPym

That would be him


I think this is worthy of a FAIL lol

Fil

shocking, that some one can even make, let alone sell these,

utter cunts the maufactures are

S1rst

Id be on the phone to the seller! Thats shocking! They look hollow to bend and twist like that!

rsfido_1989

jesus what would have happened if he had driven with the chocolate nuts on his wheels? scary!

Oranoco

Fuck fitting them

Seems crazy fitting nuts like that for a pretty look, I'll stick with my heavy arse boring metal nuts

Mark 3D

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To be honest using a 12 point socket probably didnt help.

I personally would only ever use a 6 point socket.

RichieST

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True. A deep socket may also have been a good idea too so it covers the complete head of the nut!

Deffo shouldnt have done that though.

Rax

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There not even worthy of being called Cadburys,the equivalent of them would the cheap chocolate you get in an easter egg with a mug !! That is fooking dangerous

Christian and Beccy

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Never mind the wheel nuts, did he get the wax cleaned out of his ears OK?

ballin

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Why's that? The whole nut has turned on itself, the socket hasn't slipped.

Oranoco

Because a 6 point socket would support more of the nut through having greater contact with it therefore transfering the energy over a larger area of the nut rather than at points on the nut.

Or that's my thinking anyway

andrewg

if they were torqued with a deep socket i'm sure they would of been fine, my dads gpa rally car run ally nuts and you could destroy them easy if over tightened with a bar and also they wear if not lubed up regulary,, it would surpsise you how tight wheel nuts don't need to be.

andrewg

are they threaded all the way?

andrewg

looks like they are counter bored, so where the socket was there was no thread to support it, if it was threaded it wouldn't twisted so easy,, or deep socket to turn the bit with thread in it

andrewg

i know this cause the day we were at oulton mlr day my friend done the same thing with my steel nuts well over tightened them and snapped the hex right off leaving the threaded tappered bit in the wheel!! nightmare to get it out!

Twellsie

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my guess is that the material has been bought in, in the wrong condition

TurboShed

Cheap Chinese shite no doubt. Beware eBay listings in Engrish.

Less.

Wonder how many cars are driving with tehm nuts

Mark 3D

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Yep i agree... if you look at the amount of nut that the 12 point socket is actually gripping its not a great deal whereas a 6 point socket would have gripped the entire nut!!

that said... those nuts should not have twisted like that so must be of a very poor quality!!

I personally would not use 12 point sockets for any application.

tejy

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woah

wirralphil

these them???

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/16-Car-Part-Ve...1%7C240%3A1318

Dan@Rapid-Ford

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These are some steel wheelnuts I snapped a while ago they were overtightened and I didn't not using a deep dish socket they are supplied by TSW.







I think when you tighten wheelnuts up you have to take into account for heat expansion of the ally wheel so they are not done up that tight 100nm IIRC

AlexF

Alloy nuts need alloy sockets too...

If your not using the right tool for the job and all that!

It's Czech Mate

Alloy nuts and bolts should only be used by people that know what they are doing.

I built up a really really light mountainbike using selected alloy bolts in some places it was safe to use them

It was such a ballache I never bothered again, because you have to be meticulous and you contstantly worry about them

Oranoco

I done the same right down to the spoke nipples in anodised purple (although the drive side of the rear wheel were s/s

Mark 3D

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Interesting thread this...

Are we now saying that the damage done to the alloy nuts wasnt all necessarily down to the poor quality of them?

fezzajsy

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thats crazy

AlexF

Well the socket isnt working on the total length of the nut...

Was a torque wrench used to the correct number of NMs...

Lots of questions!

Alloy nuts will fail if you abuse them - its common knowledge in Prosche world as the nuts are usually alloy.

Alex