stripped threads

Jordan5372

Got some alloys for my car today and tyre garage put them on for me. When i got home i noticed one of the threads on the front left hub had stripped, he had stripped it. I tried to remove it but it was hard to move so i just tightened it back up.


What can i do now?

YbFocus

A place done this to me before too, what can ya do except go back to them, although are you sure they done it and can you prove it somehow?

I just left it and replaced the stud myself, cheap job and don't go back there again!

shedweller

Jordan5372 wrote: »

Got some alloys for my car today and tyre garage put them on for me. When i got home i noticed one of the threads on the front left hub had stripped, he had stripped it. I tried to remove it but it was hard to move so i just tightened it back up.


What can i do now?

Ideally a new hub but you could use a heli-coil to make new threads. In an industrial setting they are just as good if not better than the original. I don't know about the legality of it on a wheel hub though. I'd personally err on the side of getting a new hub. Either yourself or the lad that did the damage.

Jordan5372

yes im positive, I seen him put it in and he used some force putting it in, the rest are all straight but this one you can see at an angle. Is a new hub expensive?

i can't prove it was him but it was him because he was the last one to put the wheel back on.

YbFocus

sorry your using bolts so a new hub or helicoil it.
For a new hub your looking at €40 in a breakers not sure new depends hugely on the car!
I'd say approach the chap, show him the damage. He knows you were only in today or yesterday and he knows he done it!

shedweller

Now that i think of it, i don't know if all hubs have the threads in them or the hub boss underneath. That could be a show stopper if the threads are on a boss behind the hub.
Also, if the bolt was at an angle then it didn't go in far. Which means the full depth of thread is not damaged. Try take out the bolt and restart it as square as pissible. Cast iron is soft so any damage should be cleared out of the way when the bolt goes in correctly.

Jordan5372

im a bit wary about taking the bolt out, leave it to the garage to do. Going to call around tomorrow, see what they say. Surely he would know he stripped? he just thought not to say anything

shedweller

Jordan5372 wrote: »

im a bit wary about taking the bolt out, leave it to the garage to do. Going to call around tomorrow, see what they say. Surely he would know he stripped? he just thought not to say anything

Too bloody right he knew!

Supergurrier

Just a lazy tyre place using the gun instead of a torque wrench

Mycroft H

I've only ever seen one tyre fitters ever use a torque wrench to put on hub nuts. It's pure laziness that they use a breaker bar or a impact wrench.

Jordan5372

i'll go up first thing and see what they say. if they dont comply i will threaten to take things further.

biko

Bring it back asap. They know what they did and it's not like you came home and did it yourself for a laugh.

Jordan5372

i went up to the garage this morning and the only guy there was the one that did the job. i walked in i asked to speak to the manager, he says he is the only on there. I said "rite, yesterday when i was here you stripped one of the lug bolts putting it back on the car with your air gun" he said "NO I DIDNT". so i walked him over and you can see clear as day the bolt is gone in at an angle. So he then got out his famous ari gun AGAIN and tried to take it out, it wouldn't come out.... he then says "no way i did that yesterday, you can do me a favour and get the **** outta here". He then walks off and starts talking to another customer.

Jimdagym

I hope you are still there.

Jordan5372

No not still there, going to ring up later ask to speak to the boss.

Jordan5372

Got the bolt of my self at home! a load of WD40 and some force got it loose, played it all the way through untill i just screwed it out. The bolt is bent a little and the bottom half of the threads of stripped. However, the hub thread seems fine, screwed another lug bolt into it and it went in fine and tightened up as well. So off to scrappy in the morning to pick up another lug bolt for it.

Jimdagym

Jordan5372 wrote: »

Got the bolt of my self at home! a load of WD40 and some force got it loose, played it all the way through untill i just screwed it out. The bolt is bent a little and the bottom half of the threads of stripped. However, the hub thread seems fine, screwed another lug bolt into it and it went in fine and tightened up as well. So off to scrappy in the morning to pick up another lug bolt for it.

What happened when you rang the manager?

Jordan5372

he was as much a scumbag as the guy. he says "the guy that did it has 20 years experience and knows what he is at, no way he stripped it"

Jimdagym

Jordan5372 wrote: »

he was as much a scumbag as the guy. he says "the guy that did it has 20 years experience and knows what he is at, no way he stripped it"

I need to get some work done. What's the name of the place you went so I can definitely go there, and tell all my friends.

dgt

What apes :rolleyes:

Assuming you are on about the Corsa from memory they are a M12 x 1.5 bolt and pitch, so easier to make a ham sandwich of.

This happened with my 406 (I don't know how ) just whipped out the correct tap and away I went

Merch

Jordan5372 wrote: »

Got some alloys for my car today and tyre garage put them on for me. When i got home i noticed one of the threads on the front left hub had stripped, he had stripped it. I tried to remove it but it was hard to move so i just tightened it back up.


What can i do now?

Once the alloys were on you noticed the threads were stripped, Im not sure how you could see any threads, am I imagining this incorrectly or something? did you take the alloy off again?
You said its a bolt not a stud, so if when you were taking it off is that when you noticed?

either way if you took it off and it was difficult to remove or already damaged then the guy that fitted it must have done the damage, as you cant cross thread a bolt on the way out, it probably would have done some damage being removed due to being fitted incorrectly, too much eagerness to use an airgun perhaps.

Jordan5372

The name of the garage is Ashbourne tyre centre.

I noticed it could have been stripped as i could clearly see that one of the bolt was not sitting straight as the other 3 were, so i got my wheel brace and tried to remove it to which i couldn't it was just getting tighter, then i knew he had stripped it by putting it back in with his trusty air gun.