good garage experience

Kostic · 2005-02-09T20:26:01+00:00

Went to National Tyres in Guildford for a pair of tyres today (Avon on buy 1get 1 free offer). The process was nothing special, the chap took the wheelsoff, took old tyres off, put new ones on, balanced, etc. Then he puts thewheels back on the car, tightens with impact wrench (again, nothing special)and then... takes a torque wrench and tightens the lug nuts to the correcttorque !!! I couldn't believe any garage would do it these days for lug nuts!When I asked the chap if this was their normal procedure, he said, yes, theynormally set impact wrench to about 80Nm and then hand tighten them to 110Nm(or whatever the proper torque is)P.S. I, however, had much worse experience with their other branch.--Kostic

Feb 09, 2005 20 Replies

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Mike G 21 years ago

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OK you're forgiven this time, but don't let it happen again. :-) Russian name? Mike.

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