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Locking wheel nut,

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  • 19-09-2019 9:35am
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    yourdeadwright
    Registered Users Posts: 20,555 ✭✭✭✭


    Very quick question , Is it the norm to have just one wheel with a locking wheel nut ?


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    Odyssey 2005
    Registered Users Posts: 21,065 ✭✭✭✭Odyssey 2005


    yourdeadwright wrote: »
    Very quick question , Is it the norm to have just one wheel with a locking wheel nut ?

    No. Usually one locking nut/stud per wheel.


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    yourdeadwright
    Registered Users Posts: 20,555 ✭✭✭✭yourdeadwright


    Odyssey 2005 wrote: »
    No. Usually one locking nut/stud per wheel.



    Ahh I just realised Im being an ejit,


    Its just one of the nut caps is missing


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    CoBo55
    Registered Users Posts: 8,820 ✭✭✭CoBo55


    Ha ha! Not as bad as a manager I had who rang a breakdown service because the wheel brace was too small for the nuts, yep you're guessed it, it was a plastic wheel trim with those fake chrome nuts,...


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    yourdeadwright
    Registered Users Posts: 20,555 ✭✭✭✭yourdeadwright


    CoBo55 wrote: »
    Ha ha! Not as bad as a manager I had who rang a breakdown service because the wheel brace was too small for the nuts, yep you're guessed it, it was a plastic wheel trim with those fake chrome nuts,...



    To be fair to me I'm just looking at a picture my younger bother sent me,
    But you can see how people would think there the real nuts


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    Sam Quentin
    Registered Users Posts: 2,223 ✭✭✭Sam Quentin


    yourdeadwright wrote: »
    To be fair to me I'm just looking at a picture my younger bother sent me,
    But you can see how people would think there the real nuts

    Yeah sure of course, ohhhh yeah definitely, totes agree, no shame there







    AHHHHHHH HAHAHAHA AHHHHHHH HAHAHAHA
    :D sorry couldn't resist.


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    jimbis
    Registered Users Posts: 1,355 ✭✭✭jimbis


    CoBo55 wrote: »
    Ha ha! Not as bad as a manager I had who rang a breakdown service because the wheel brace was too small for the nuts, yep you're guessed it, it was a plastic wheel trim with those fake chrome nuts,...

    I get called out quite a lot to people who 'can't get the wheel off'. And this is the reason.
    I suppose it's an easy mistake for some people...


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    Spook_ie
    Registered Users Posts: 10,896 ✭✭✭✭Spook_ie


    My Skoda had plastic nut covers on them all, first time I changed a puncture was a struggle to get them off, so when I went in to get the puncture fixed I had the lads take them all off and threw them in the bin.


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    CoBo55
    Registered Users Posts: 8,820 ✭✭✭CoBo55


    Spook_ie wrote: »
    My Skoda had plastic nut covers on them all, first time I changed a puncture was a struggle to get them off, so when I went in to get the puncture fixed I had the lads take them all off and threw them in the bin.

    There's a little metal clip in the spare wheel holder for taking them off!! My old manager is on boards...


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    Steve
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 22,584 CMod ✭✭✭✭Steve


    My OH went to get a slow puncture fixed recently. She left the car in and went to get a coffee in a nearby place. When she came back half an hour later, they told her they couldn't find the security socket so had done nothing... She was told the only option was to go to a main dealer to get them removed and buy a new set.

    In fairness, I agreed, there was no other option so off she went, only to get a call an hour later saying there were no security nuts on the car..

    The feckers never even pulled the plastic covers off to look.

    I didn't either so hands up there. Could happen to a bishop as they say.


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    Alun
    Registered Users Posts: 21,432 ✭✭✭✭Alun


    I must admit I never knew plastic wheel nut covers were even a thing until now :)


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    jimbis
    Registered Users Posts: 1,355 ✭✭✭jimbis


    Steve wrote: »
    My OH went to get a slow puncture fixed recently. She left the car in and went to get a coffee in a nearby place. When she came back half an hour later, they told her they couldn't find the security socket so had done nothing... She was told the only option was to go to a main dealer to get them removed and buy a new set.

    In fairness, I agreed, there was no other option so off she went, only to get a call an hour later saying there were no security nuts on the car..

    The feckers never even pulled the plastic covers off to look.

    I didn't either so hands up there. Could happen to a bishop as they say.

    Does she drive a VW beetle by any chance?


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    Steve
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 22,584 CMod ✭✭✭✭Steve


    jimbis wrote: »
    Does she drive a VW beetle by any chance?

    Yup. And many thanks for sorting her out with that! :D

    Shameless plug for jimbis, great guy, great service..:cool:


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    juke
    Registered Users Posts: 1,673 ✭✭✭juke


    And, as said beetle driver, can I say jimbis was a total gentleman when I 'asked' was there any chance he had misplaced said key on a previous job.

    Total gent, has sorted me out twice now!


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