Rover 75 wheel size..and Could not get the wheel off
 

Firstly a word of warning...The tyre centres that change your tyres,,,do let them Hydraulic bolt back on the wheel......I had a puncture today simple thing you would have thought....Wrong Nightmare.

The tyre company that put a new tyre on some months back over tighten the lock wheel nut so tight not even the AA could unwind it. Nor could the garage now my car is having the wheel rim cut off....

My question is I have to get a new wheel where do I find the wheel size is it on the tyre. and are the locking wheel not security coded.

Thanks

Bill

Sorry to hear the news Bill...having a wheel cut off the car is a nightmare. Are they alloy wheels?

Wheel diameter will be the last part of the tyre size (e.g. 205/55/16 tyre fits as 16" diameter rim) but the width of the rim is likely to be on the inside of the wheel somewhere.

Can you post a picture of your wheels on here so that they can be identified by the folks on the forum?

Good luck?

Jonty

Wheel cut off??? Who suggested that?!
If the nut is damaged either weld another nut on if accessible and rattle off or drill the head off the bolt and remove once the wheels off!
That or put the other four bolts back in tight then attempt to remove.
Ive had a lot of luck in the past hammering a much smaller but good quality socket onto the offending stud and unwinding that way. Get a mate to batter the back of the knuckle / power bar while another is jumping on it. Should be absolutely no reason to cut the wheel off.

All the wheels here
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I have seen many wheels where this is the only option left. It's the consequence of people with absolutely zero mechanical knowledge or sympathy being employed to do a safety-critical job for minimum wage by high street PLCs.

When I took Copperleaf to garage on Monday for new shockers there was a Renault with flat tyre, RAC had tried to get the wheel off and failed, someone else had welded onto the wheel nut and still unable to remove it. Mechanic said they always get the NAUGHTY WORD-NAUGHTY WORD-NAUGHTY WORD-NAUGHTY WORD- jobs to sort out. Don't know how they will fix it. Common problem?

I have also seen a wheel being cut off on a Peugeot , it was also a case of an over tightened locking bolt. They had tried several times to weld a nut but because it was in a deep recess they were struggling to get a good weld as the torch almost filled the hole.

The other option is drilling but you need a lot of patience and some very good drill bits.

In truth who needs locking wheel bolts these days? when did you last see a set of wheels get stolen? They are more likely to take the whole car.

This is what I have successfully done on 2 occasions:
1. Place a 1 metre+ pipe over the wheelbrace and stand on the end. Moment of force = force x distance.
2. No pipe - place the wheel brace on the bolt and drive the car forward(?; a long time ago) so that the brace catches the ground and forces it to loosen.
Preference is no.1.
Hope this helps.

Had the overtightened problem with a fitter who used his expensive Snap-On electronic torque wrench.

Did not like it when I went back and invited him to remove nut , pointing out that he had seriously overtorqued it as shown by my mechanical wrench.:D

Several decades ago I succeeded in splitting a perfectly good socket, failing to change a wheel on a friend's Fiesta. Since then I always invite the fitter to release
and retighten the wheel nuts with the car's wheel brace, in my presence. Causes a few muttered imprecations, but it works a treat!


Derek.