xa0s
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I fitted new wheels to my car a few weeks ago and done them up really tight, much tighter than I should to be honest but I'm always paranoid about them becoming lose. They were fine for ages, then driving down the motorway I felt a weird knocking noise and after a bit of an examination I realised the bolts were loose in the front left wheel EXCEPT for the locking wheel nut. Every other bolt on every other wheel was fine.
Do you think this is possible to happen or do you think someone tried taking the wheels and then realised?
EDIT: It wasn't even gradual, I parked at Bluewater and came out, drove carefully onto the motorway and then at 70mph I heard it. Before then I was ragging the car around with no sound at all...
[Edited on 21-01-2011 by xa0s]
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DannyB
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Did you torque them all up? they shouldn't just come loose, I would say someone has tried to take them or someone has tried to make you crash.
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xa0s
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quote:
Originally posted by DannyB
Did you torque them all up? they shouldn't just come loose, I would say someone has tried to take them or someone has tried to make you crash.
They wasn't torqued to the specific amount but they were tighter than advised. Is there anyway that can be worse? I'm not talking stupidly tight, no where near enough to round the bolt or anything but pretty much pushing down hard on a long breaker bar.
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redtom
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id go for someone really stupid was going to have the wheels and then realised they couldnt get the lockers off.
especially if you were parked in the multistory and then it happened
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xa0s
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quote:
Originally posted by redtom
id go for someone really stupid was going to have the wheels and then realised they couldnt get the lockers off.
especially if you were parked in the multistory and then it happened
Yeah I was parked where the climbing wall entrance is. I was actually parked next to a Ferrari very close to the entrance so it seems unlikely to be honest but I can't see only 4 wheel bolts coming lose on the same wheel when I done them up tight and no other bolt has come lose...
I dunno what to think but I'm checking every time I use the car now, it's got me proper paranoid...
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xa0s
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I can just imagine crashing and telling people my wheel fell off and them thinking I'm full of shit. 
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redtom
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Id say someone tried to pinch them.
probably attention drawn to the car by the fact it was parked next to that lol. To be honest in there no matter how close to the entrance if someones jacking the wheels up nobody will say anything as it will just look like they are changing a wheel.
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xa0s
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It's weird because they're just standard Octavia vRS wheels, it's not like they're anything special as such but I suppose it's an easy £400-500 quid if they can get them.
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VegasPhil
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quote:
Originally posted by xa0s
It's weird because they're just standard Octavia vRS wheels, it's not like they're anything special as such but I suppose it's an easy £400-500 quid if they can get them.
Easy to sell Standard alloys. You'd never spot them on eBay I guess.
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MJ
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check the profile of the bolts to make sure they are the same as what the wheels need. some cars use 60 taper some 45 and some ball type
[Edited on 21-01-2011 by MJ]
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brebaz
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if someone was going to steel any wheels you would think they would have went for the ferrari wheels.
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Jonny P
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as said up there, it would be much easier to sell Octavia VRS wheels than ferrari wheels...
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Ben G
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do they no have shit loads of cctv in bluewater?
california's are the gay ferrari of the bunch but still nice.
definitely someones had a go at them and realised they can't get the locking nut off.
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richc
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quote:
Originally posted by brebaz
if someone was going to steel any wheels you would think they would have went for the ferrari wheels.
But how many 612 owners would buy them selves some alloys on ebay or off some dodgy bloke 'down the pub'?
I would say someone had tried to pinch them. I think the only time they would come loose if you did them finger tight. Any sort of stiff turning on the spanner would hold them in enough i would say.
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Ben G
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thats not a 612 though.
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jacko198
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Same thing happened to me, took wheels off to paint calipers, put them back on, then my mate asked if i had tightened them. I said "ermm, yeah" so he went over them all again.
Few days later and im missing a bolt and the others are 1 turn left. Locking bolt was in tight though :s
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richc
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quote:
Originally posted by Ben G
thats not a 612 though.
Well that explains it then.
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Jake
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how much thread of the bolt was in the hub?
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Simon_16v
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Looks like the ferrari has VRS Spiders on tbh
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3CorsaMeal
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quote:
Originally posted by MJ
check the profile of the bolts to make sure they are the same as what the wheels need. some cars use 60 taper some 45 and some ball type
[Edited on 21-01-2011 by MJ]
this tbh
check you have the correct bolts when changing wheels, so many people never bother and don't realise.
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xa0s
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quote:
Originally posted by Simon_16v
Looks like the ferrari has VRS Spiders on tbh
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JordyCarter
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it might of been the female in the picture.
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