Wobbly wheels

[Barman]

 

[The Moan Ranger]

Haven't read a few pages but watching Top Gear, I ask the question - why didn't Clarkson punch the living fuck out of Campbell? That would have been perfick.

[Uncle Mort]

Should have loosened his wheel nuts. 

[kafenes]

I beleive the Ford Focus has a factory problem with the rear wheel bearings. They seem to corrode if you were driving on salt treated snow in the winter.

[Snoopy]

So perhaps living right next to the tidal part of an estuary that is prone to flooding, parking the car in the open and then leaving it there for a whole year may have contributed?

[Nick]

Turns out to be two buckled wheels (two buckled ALLOY wheels) and associated tyre wear. About £400 

Assuming, of course, I can find the locking wheel nut thingy which has vanished 

[Miss Demeanour]

 

[Barman]

Assuming, of course, I can find the locking wheel nut thingy which has vanished 

 

[Snoopy]

Turns out to be two buckled wheels (two buckled ALLOY wheels) and associated tyre wear. About £400 

Assuming, of course, I can find the locking wheel nut thingy which has vanished 

That'll be the pot holes along Growlers least favourite road then.

As for the locking nut thingy ~ most RAC/AA men have a selection of them in their tool box as do most garages that deal with emergency call out breakdowns etc. That's how I have solved the problem of missing nut "cracker" on several occasions. There are only something like 10 combinations for each make of car.

I now await those with greater knowledge to argue about that.

[Nick]

Most of the roads round here look like the surface of the moon 

[Grumpmeister]

And what did they look like before you took to the road Nick? 

[GROWLER]

Turns out to be two buckled wheels (two buckled ALLOY wheels) and associated tyre wear. About £400 

Assuming, of course, I can find the locking wheel nut thingy which has vanished 

That'll be the pot holes along Growlers least favourite road then.

As for the locking nut thingy ~ most RAC/AA men have a selection of them in their tool box as do most garages that deal with emergency call out breakdowns etc. That's how I have solved the problem of missing nut "cracker" on several occasions. There are only something like 10 combinations for each make of car.

I now await those with greater knowledge to argue about that.

That'll no doubt make it my fault then?

Look you great plank, christ knows how you can manage to buckle two wheels in the first place, but get yerself down the 'scrappy' for a couple of replacements.

[Darwins Selection]

Look you great plank, christ knows how you can manage to buckle two wheels in the first place, but get yerself down the 'scrappy' for a couple of replacements.

Steel ones as well, not more poncey alloy nonsense. 

Rusty steel rims won't get pinched either, so locking nuts won't be needed.

Get some 8-ply tyres as well, if the Scally roads are really that bad.

[GROWLER]

Look you great plank, christ knows how you can manage to buckle two wheels in the first place, but get yerself down the 'scrappy' for a couple of replacements.

Steel ones as well, not more poncey alloy nonsense.  

Rusty steel rims won't get pinched either, so locking nuts won't be needed.

Get some 8-ply tyres as well, if the Scally roads are really that bad.

It has been known for him to slightly exagerate on a few occassions,   so take what he sez with a tiny pinch of salt.

The roads around here are fairly bad in places, but absolutely no worse than any other county I've driven through over the last 6 months tbh.

He does however have his own...alledgedly, so he says like....micro climate, where ginger bearded  dinasours no doubt freely roam and rummage through the foresty undergrowth, whilst herds of man eating hungry screaming Teredactyl swoop majestically above all day long.  

[Nick]

Growler has gone mad