On Wed, 20 Feb 2008 22:04:31 GMT, "Bill Falconer"
<falconw@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>Took my caravan into a tire dealer for a wheel balance. Twenty minutes
into
>it he tells me there is a problem with the nuts stripping. THe nuts have
>some sort of tin ****eld over them for purly estetic looks I believe but
>anyhow what happened was that the ****elds came off. The guy doing the job
>put the 19mm impact over the bar nut which is of course slightly smaller
in
>size now because the steel ****eld is missing. He rounds the edges over on
5
>of the 10 nuts holding the two front tires on and then procedes to use a
nut
>extractor to try and remove one of the nuts. Now we have one nut that is
>totally round and stuck solid and nine that are somewhat rounded and
stuck
>on. To make matters worse, I have alloys on the van. I stopped the guys
from
>going any farther and took the van home, didn't see any point in digging
the
>hole any deeper. I have been looking at the mess and it looks like
drilling
>the stud will be the only way to get the totally rounded nut off the dam
>stud. Has anyone had this same problem and what did you do to resolve it.
>The dealer is an option but I would like to give this one a go myself
first.
>If the nuts weren't down in a bit of a recess in the alloy rim a dremel
>would certainly be the answer, and may yet be but it will be difficult to
>cut the nut and not hit the rim. Suggestions please.
>
>Any info appreciated.
>Bill
>
(1) Post the name and address of the tire dealer here.
(2) If they are part of a chain of stores, talk to the main office.
(3) California residents can re****t problems to the state auto repair
agency. Does your state have an equivalent office?
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