Which way to undo 20 wheel nuts?

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Wanderer - 06 Aug 2007 13:20 GMT

Which way (clockwise or anti clockwise) is it to undo wheel nuts
(nearside and offside) on a Y reg 206 1.4? I've already found the
trick where the head bends on the supplied wrench BTW

TIA

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Wanderer - 06 Aug 2007 13:21 GMT

> Which way (clockwise or anti clockwise) is it to undo wheel nuts
> (nearside and offside) on a Y reg 206 1.4? I've already found the
> trick where the head bends on the supplied wrench BTW
>
> TIA

Subject should be 206. Sorry

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Phil Cook - 06 Aug 2007 14:56 GMT

>Which way (clockwise or anti clockwise) is it to undo wheel nuts
>(nearside and offside) on a Y reg 206 1.4? I've already found the
>trick where the head bends on the supplied wrench BTW

They are all conventional thread since there aren't any rotational
forces to counteract, the wheel is stationary with respect to the hub.
So it is anti-clock to undo.

Do yourself a favour and get a decent spider or other "tool suitable
for the job" to undo them. I once had to resort to adding a short
length of scaffold pole to undo my wheel bolts after some numpty at a
tyre place had done them up too tight. :-(

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Wanderer - 06 Aug 2007 18:55 GMT

>> Which way (clockwise or anti clockwise) is it to undo wheel nuts
>> (nearside and offside) on a Y reg 206 1.4? I've already found the
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> length of scaffold pole to undo my wheel bolts after some numpty at a
> tyre place had done them up too tight. :-(

Thanks Phil, I gave up and put it in a tyre place. I wouldn't have
undone them in a Million years. I'll take your advise and find a spider
spanner for the boot but I'm GF covered so won't worry too much.

Seems a dirty trick to me if it is done deliberately and I'd fear for
the bolt heads being sheared off by such over tightening.

Regards

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Malc - 06 Aug 2007 21:37 GMT

> Thanks Phil, I gave up and put it in a tyre place. I wouldn't have
> undone them in a Million years. I'll take your advise and find a
> spider spanner for the boot but I'm GF covered so won't worry too
> much.

I found the supplied wheel brace appeared to be made of cheese on my 406. I
was caught out when the pad wear indicator came on half way from Gloucester
to Liverpool recently. I had to buy a spider as well as the pads when I got
there.

It's ok being GF covered but you can change a wheel in about 10 minutes but
GF could take an hour to get to you.

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Brian - 07 Aug 2007 09:21 GMT

> > Thanks Phil, I gave up and put it in a tyre place. I wouldn't have
> > undone them in a Million years. I'll take your advise and find a
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> It's ok being GF covered but you can change a wheel in about 10 minutes but
> GF could take an hour to get to you.

Whenever I get a new(er) car, the first thing I do is to take off all the
wheel bolts, one at a time, put copperease on the threads and do them up
again with my socket set, so that I KNOW that I will always be able to undo
them by the roadside. With copperease on the treads you can probably get the
bolt tighter with less force than with the normally dry rusty thread.

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Chris Hodges - 08 Aug 2007 17:03 GMT

> Thanks Phil, I gave up and put it in a tyre place. I wouldn't have
> undone them in a Million years. I'll take your advise and find a spider
> spanner for the boot but I'm GF covered so won't worry too much.

Personal preference is for a telescopic wheelbrace - often easier to stow
and I've never met a wheelnut I couldn't undo with it. I have bent a couple
of spiders and had to use a garden fork to turn another.

Chris

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Cup of Tea - 08 Aug 2007 19:40 GMT

I have bent a

> couple
> of spiders and had to use a garden fork to turn another.

That's an interesting tip.

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pastis - 07 Aug 2007 00:01 GMT

>>Which way (clockwise or anti clockwise) is it to undo wheel nuts
>>(nearside and offside) on a Y reg 206 1.4? I've already found the
[quoted text clipped - 3 lines]
> forces to counteract, the wheel is stationary with respect to the hub.
> So it is anti-clock to undo.

On "normal" cars I guess they all are standard threaded bolts.
But I remember that when I was in the (Belgian) army they had left and right
turning bolts, depending on which side of the truck the weel was fixed!!
So there really seems to be a "rotational force"...

Grtz,
Eric B.

> Do yourself a favour and get a decent spider or other "tool suitable
> for the job" to undo them. I once had to resort to adding a short
> length of scaffold pole to undo my wheel bolts after some numpty at a
> tyre place had done them up too tight. :-(

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