Every car has a wheel nut torque figure published by the people who built it. It is in the handbook, it varies by model and by wheel design, and it exists because a wheel nut has two separate ways of being wrong. Too loose and the wheel works against the hub until the studs fatigue. Too tight and you stretch the stud, distort the disc and seize the nut for whoever comes next. There is one figure, and reaching it is not a matter of experience or forearms.
So the last thing that happens on a replacement is a click rather than a burst of noise. The nuts go down in a diagonal sequence instead of round the circle, because tightening in order pulls the wheel onto the hub unevenly and can leave it sitting very slightly cocked. Then each one is brought up to the figure with a wrench that stops when it gets there. The other detail worth knowing is that a freshly fitted wheel should be checked again after a short distance, because paint and dirt bed down and a nut that was correct can end up a little slack. You get told that at the car rather than left to find out.
Failing an MOT on a tyre is an expensive way to find out, and it usually happens on the day you needed the car. We bring the correct size to wherever the car is, in Lewisham town centre or at the test centre car park and fit it there, balanced and pressure-set. Whether it is Blackheath in rush hour or Loampit Vale at midnight, we answer. On the South Circular, day or night, Ladywell included, arrival across SE13 runs 30 to 60 minutes. A SE13 address in Loampit Vale and one in Lee are the same round.
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Fitting a tyre on the A205 side of Lewisham usually means working on a slope with traffic going past, and that is exactly the situation in which people take shortcuts on the final step. The car gets supported properly, the nuts get the manufacturer's figure and the wheel goes back square. The setting is awkward. The procedure does not bend for it.
A driver on a Hither Green street watched the whole sequence and said nobody had ever shown them that before. The nuts went down diagonally, each to the same number, and the wheel sat flat against the hub. It takes very little longer than working by feel.
One nut ran on far too easily and kept going. That thread had been pulled by a gun some time before and would not hold a torque figure at all. We would not fit onto it, and said so, rather than tightening harder and calling the job done.
A sloping terraced road near Ladywell is a poor place to lift a car, so the equipment goes down on boards and the weight is supported before anything is loosened. A torque figure only means something if the wheel is square to the hub while you set it.
A wheel is clamped by all the nuts working together. Going round in a circle pulls one side up first and can leave the wheel very slightly off square against the hub, which surfaces later as a vibration nobody can account for.
You usually find out when you need the wheel off. The clue at the time is a gun held on the nut for a long burst. A correctly torqued wheel can be undone by hand with the brace from the boot, which is the real test.
It is worth doing after a short run. Bedding in is normal and a small drop in torque comes with it. We would rather you knew that than assumed a wheel is finished with the moment the fitting van pulls away.
Not always, and neither do different nut seat shapes on the same car. That is why the number comes from the data for your vehicle and your wheel rather than a general rule, and why it gets looked up instead of remembered.
Balancing is part of fitting rather than an extra. Weights go on using equipment carried with us, so the tyre you drive away on has been balanced and torqued correctly before anyone leaves the kerb.
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