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frozenfrozen · 22-09-2017 04:09PM #1

Hi right so I currently have a 00 skoda fabia 1.4 petrol insured with 8 months left on the policy.

It just 'passed' the nct but needs a visual for 2 worn front tyres.

The problem is the wheels can't come off. Long story short is it exploded 3 snap on sockets to reveal aluminium studs all cross threaded

What sort of cars could I be looking at that would be cheaper to move to than fixing this up? I don't want to throw good money at a bad problem as they say.

I'm 22 so that rules out a lot of options without having to pay a lot more for insurance

Thanks for any input..

Not in a mad hurry as I swapped over to my sisters car for 1 week and could extend that while looking..

discodaveirl · 22-09-2017 04:17PM

Not being funny but cross threaded welded whatever it is, it didnt grow there. Would you not either get a (secondhan) new hub and wheel, fix it, test it drive thru the winter and sell in feb, march.. when will you be 23?

frozenfrozen · 22-09-2017 04:35PM

discodaveirl wrote: »

Not being funny but cross threaded welded whatever it is, it didnt grow there. Would you not either get a (secondhan) new hub and wheel, fix it, test it drive thru the winter and sell in feb, march.. when will you be 23?

thanks
4 of them are like this I should have said sorry, the car I guess is worth 300 quid when fixed and it would be that much in parts alone to fix the wheels, then it would be getting 2 new tyres and the labour for all that. If that would be my cheapest option then I'd go for that, I could also buy the sisters car which is a 1 litre corsa and stick with that and scrap the skoda and try get the refund of the tax on it...

I'll be 23 in June.

just in a weird position because I can't afford something actually worth spending money on when insurance comes into it

discodaveirl · 22-09-2017 09:46PM

Shoot down to the local tyre guy tell him your tale of woe, he should be able to throw on two tyres on the front, pass nct and down to the local auction...

frozenfrozen · 22-09-2017 09:56PM

The wheels can't come off to put new tyres on or if they come off they won't go back on without new hubs

Other than that I could drive it for another year

acronym Chilli · 22-09-2017 10:04PM

how did they all end up cross-threaded like that?

frozenfrozen · 22-09-2017 10:08PM

acronym Chilli wrote: »

how did they all end up cross-threaded like that?

They were on when the car was bought and never taken off

Tigger · 22-09-2017 10:09PM

Seems a strange situation

frozenfrozen · 22-09-2017 10:23PM

Tigger wrote: »

Seems a strange situation

It is because I'm on the bike all the time and just need to keep a car going to not lose the no claims until I can get insured on something nice

There are other cars in the house that I could he a named driver on.. For like 3 grand.. So it's little dinger car for another few years

Edit.. That makes it sound like I don't drive it at all I do but not even every week would I drive it

quietsailor · 22-09-2017 10:33PM

It is possible to change a tire with the rim on the car - its done all the time on truck tires as they're too big to mess around with at the side of a road

It'll be bloody difficult to do - you don't have the space that a truck does - but try asking some of the truck breakdown companies will they do it.

Maybe some of the non chain car tire places might do it?

frozenfrozen · 22-09-2017 10:42PM

quietsailor wrote: »

It is possible to change a tire with the rim on the car - its done all the time on truck tires as they're too big to mess around with at the side of a road

It'll be bloody difficult to do - you don't have the space that a truck does - but try asking some of the truck breakdown companies will they do it.

Maybe some of the non chain car tire places might do it?

I didn't know that was done.. Would get me out of a hole alright.. Thanks

I had it in with a bit of a chain place but know someone very well who works there they do truck tyres I could ask if he thinks it could be done to mine

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