Help! Serious Knocking

[peter]

Well, I suppose you're right ... won't touch them .... till they fall off ..
we'll see,........
Peter

[Transitwalla]

Peter wrote;
I'm going to wind them up a bit over the top with a scaffold bar later today and we'll see ...........

Really not advisable, it has been mentioned already the torque settings are there for a reason . .better to employ a good maintainence regime than to over tighten the wheelnuts and stretch the bolts. You can bet if you overtighten the wheelnuts the bolts will snap at the most inoppertune time and cause maximum damage and inconvenience.

I have just been outside to my van and it took less than a minute a wheel to check the wheelnuts . On this occasion I think common sense will prevail and chase foolishness out of the window

I have never lost a wheel off a van . . but have lost a 10" wheel off a trailer at 55 mph....fotunately no damge was caused but my heart missed several beats as I watched the wheel bounce it's way along the motorway hardshoulder and into a field full of cows....while I was watching the wheel who was watching where I was going

[Smooth Hound]

I know someone who was steadily driving a mini some 25 30 years ago who had over tightened his studs, and he said he felt a jolt and saw a wheel going along the road along side him, the car didnt over balance but kept going some what unsteadily and it took him about 20 seconds to realise that the wheel was one of his.And that is true.
Mike