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Originally Posted by SD1too
Hello Cyril,
I can confirm that the figure given in RAVE is 125 Nm.
If you have a torque wrench, I'd recommend that you check them each time after collecting your car from a garage or tyre centre. 
Simon |
Best thing is to loosen and then retighten them after having been to the garage (at least you know that you can the undo them in the first place). Just putting a torque wrench on them will give you a false impression, the torque wrench may well click at 125Nm but if they've gunned them up then they may well be over that and the worst time to find out is in the dark and pouring rain and you can't change a wheel.
I saw exactly this happen when I had two new tyres fitted to my bus, the fitter did the wheel nuts up to a couple of dugga duggas and then put the torque wrench on then - it clicked at 400 lb/ft alright, but when I got the bus back home I needed a 6' bar to crack them off, before I did them back up with a standard HGV wheel brace and final tighten with a torque wrench.