Some people shouldn't be allowed near cars!

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I've even seen them use coppa slip on the wheel nuts

I thought everybody did?

Yeah there's nothing wrong with that Niall. Copper slip is handy stuff though, not just for brake pads

balljoints, droplinks, TRE's it's all good baby for next time you go to replace things .

Yep that's it! Everything I put on (almost) either gets copper slip or thread lock. I'm quite happy to put a very thin smear on wheel nuts and wheel faces and have been doing for years, never had a wheel come loose (never had nuts rusted in either) even once checked them with a torque wrench a month later and none of them had moved.

I once had a guy spin the bolts in with a air gun then he went to get a torque wrench I though that's good he'll torque them up and then to my horror he used the torque wrench like a breaker bar! He totally ignored the click when it was at the right torque.

I always try to remove the wheels off the car and take them in the boot where possible or make sure there properly torqued up after.

I used to be like this after having some pikeys do the nuts up so hard I had to get the AA out to change a puncture for me even though I had a decent 2ft wheel wrench in the car.

I went to Cowley Road tyres on a recommendation and found that a bloke I went to college with works there and he does my wheels exactly like I'd do them, spins the nuts in with the gun to the first click then finishes them off with a torque wrench properly.

to highjack this thread a little i can't stand lady gardens who can't balance cyclones . . .and everyone round my end seems to be lady gardens . .

Yep the guys i usually get to do my wheels always moan. Last time i had to get a tyre, the bloke picked it up, said "for f*ck sake, f*cking centreless wheels" and just rolled it across the floor in a strop. needless to say when i get new tyres next time i wont be using them!

The stupid thing is it really isn't any extra effort, unscrew the center spindle then screw on the 4 stud adapter thats usually on the wall next to the machine then use an allen key and the machines own wheel nuts to do it up, maybe talking 1 minute to change the machine and an extra 30 seconds per wheel.