Torque is a number, and it is published for your vehicle by the people who built it. That sounds obvious until you watch how wheels actually get put back on, which is often by feel, sometimes with a gun set to whatever it was set to last time, and occasionally by whoever is strongest. Under-tighten and the wheel works loose, which is as bad as it sounds. Over-tighten and you stretch the studs, distort the brake disc behind the wheel and effectively weld the nuts into their seats for whoever comes next.
The locking nut is the one that shows the consequences first, because it is the one nobody can get a spare for. Once we have removed a seized or ruined one, everything goes back with a torque wrench set to the manufacturer's figure. It also pays to re-check after the first fifty miles or so, because the seats bed in slightly and a nut that read correctly on the driveway can read a fraction low the following week.
The car does not have to move, which is just as well, because usually it cannot. A wheel that will not come off on Hampton Court Way is not a problem you can drive away from. Blocked drive in Molesey Park? Open kerb in Hurst Park? Either works. Which street in Kent Town, which way the car sits in Bridge Road, and we are set.
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The river crossings towards Hampton Court and the routes through Hurst Park are congested enough that nobody wants to make an unnecessary journey on a wheel they are unsure of, and the residential grid is parked too tightly to work on safely. Doing this at the vehicle solves both. The nut comes off where the car stands and everything goes back on to a figure rather than to a feeling.
It is the commonest way wheels get refitted and the reason so many locking nuts become immovable. There is no way to know what a nut is torqued to by pushing on it.
Excessive clamping load pulls the disc out of flat and shows up as a pulsing brake pedal weeks later. Nobody connects the two, and the wheel nuts were the cause.
Seats bed in after refitting, particularly on alloys. A quick check a week later costs nothing and is the difference between a wheel that stays put and one that does not.
Your manufacturer publishes a figure for your vehicle, and that is what we set. It varies a good deal between cars, which is exactly why guessing is a poor idea.
Yes. Human judgement of tightness is unreliable by a wide margin, and both directions of error cause real damage.
It is good practice after the first fifty miles or so. If you would rather we did it, mention it and we will build it in.
24 hours a day, every day of the year, from Hurst Park across to Molesey Park and out along Walton Road. Typical arrival is 30 to 60 minutes.
A plain nut of the correct thread and seat type, set to the published figure. If you want all four locking nuts gone, tell us on the phone and we will bring a set.
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