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Have A Puncture, Don't Know How To Remove Alloy Wheel.

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    #32
    DublinDilbert
    Registered Users Posts: 5,379 ✭✭✭DublinDilbert


    what typically happens is that the steel locking nut bytes into the surface of the aluminum wheel...

    You'll need a nice long "breaker bar" as others have said the longer the better and a decent socket (preferably an impact one with a tick wall ) the correct size... places like halfords sell an extendable breaker bar and a few sockets fairly cheaply.... you could also pick up one of the X type ones cheap, or go with the braker bar and socket from above...

    In my experience most wheel braces that come with cars aren't worth a dam... sure the wheel brace that came with my E46 wouldn't shift a thing, it only has about 6 inches of leverage!


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    #33
    barryfitz
    Registered Users Posts: 554 ✭✭✭barryfitz


    Ahhh Nuts!!! :d


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    #34
    TedKelly
    Closed Accounts Posts: 174 ✭✭TedKelly


    MercMad wrote:
    See if you can find a steel tube to do over the wheel brace, a piece of scaffold, anything like that.

    Good luck !

    That did the trick, borrowed a pole from a garage (like a piece of scaffold). Thanks for the help.


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    #35
    unkel
    Registered Users Posts: 65,353 ✭✭✭✭unkel
    Chauffe, Marcel, chauffe!


    Nice one! Thanks for the update

    jkn0450l.jpg


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    #36
    TedKelly
    Closed Accounts Posts: 174 ✭✭TedKelly


    lol


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    #37
    Fey!
    Registered Users Posts: 4,184 ✭✭✭Fey!


    Good to hear you got sorted.

    Unkel; hahahahahaha!!!!


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    #38
    TedKelly
    Closed Accounts Posts: 174 ✭✭TedKelly


    Cheers Fey


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    #39
    colm_mcm
    Registered Users Posts: 73,454 ✭✭✭✭colm_mcm


    How come you still have this car?


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    #40
    TedKelly
    Closed Accounts Posts: 174 ✭✭TedKelly


    baby steps colm, hopefully I won't have it too much longer. Everything is not black & white. I suppose you'd have this whole situation well sorted by now yeah???


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    #41
    Henry Ford III
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators Posts: 17,711 Mod ✭✭✭✭Henry Ford III


    Fit big fake Vampire teeth Ted, and kick some ass.


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    #42
    TedKelly
    Closed Accounts Posts: 174 ✭✭TedKelly


    Henry Ford III wrote:
    Fit big fake Vampire teeth Ted, and kick some ass.

    If only it was that easy m8 :)


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    #43
    colm_mcm
    Registered Users Posts: 73,454 ✭✭✭✭colm_mcm


    TedKelly wrote:
    baby steps colm, hopefully I won't have it too much longer. Everything is not black & white. I suppose you'd have this whole situation well sorted by now yeah???
    being in the motor trade, I'd probably have an edge! Hopefully it all gets sorted soon.


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    #44
    TedKelly
    Closed Accounts Posts: 174 ✭✭TedKelly


    yeah unfortunatly that's an edge I don't have. No doubt you wouldn't have ended up with the car in the 1st place. At least I'll learn a lesson from the hole thing (even if I do have to learn the hard way)


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    #45
    colm_mcm
    Registered Users Posts: 73,454 ✭✭✭✭colm_mcm


    Nobody thinks it would happen to them I suppose. I treat anything from the UK as suspicious. We've checked the service records on loads of UK BMWs that people have tried to trade in, and a huge number of them have been clocked.


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