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Originally Posted by planenut
Roger, hand brake on and break the wheel bolts before you lift the wheels off the ground.
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Thanks mate - but... not sure how well the handbrake works on the front wheels
Serious point though.. as it happens, I was felled as I tried to do just that today. Last time I wanted to do something similar, I couldn't get the bolts loose, so took her up to the place where I got my tyres, and accused them of overtightening.
They claimed this was impossible, as their air thingy "only went up to 90" or some such nonsense, so I gave them the correct number and, to be fair to them, they did it for free without protest.
At least I assumed they did, till now. Even with a breaker bar, I was unable to shift the bolts. I could have used a little more force, but I broke a socket trying to do this on a previous car, and didn't want to do that again.
I was thinking of getting a 4-wheel alignment anyway, so maybe just ask the tyre people (a different place this time) to torque all my wheels up properly while they're at it.
The first place muttered something about my bolts must be rusty, so I thought about maybe putting some copperslip on them, but apparently that messes with the torque settings...?