- Location
- Lincolnshire
Most you only reset when you want to run them at a new setting.
Dad - the car is making a funny noise
- Thread starter Johnnyboxer
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Cowabunga
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- Location
- Ceredigion,Wales
Qashqai doesn't need resetting but the wheel rotation type does need recalibrating now and again if a tyre goes a bit soft or even due to different tyre wear front to back over time.
- Location
- Durham, UK
I'd be embarrassed if I was one of those young lads, at that age my mates would have took the pee mercilessly and rightly so.i work for a breakdown company,i have seen it all.what winds me up is,heres a example-called out to a wheel change on a peugeot.they had been waiting a few hours and when i got there ,4 big lads in their 20,s sat in the car playing with their phones.asked the driver if the spare was ok and his answer was he didnt know as he hadnt even looked if there was one.been out to loads of older ladies in their 80,s and they got the car jacked up with the spare out but they cant undo the nuts.they are so apologetic and embarrassed having to call us out
Canada Farmer
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Given that they are that useless, hopefully they haven't the ability to breed....
Tomr10
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Normally makes them more wantedGiven that they are that useless, hopefully they haven't the ability to breed....
Tarw Coch
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- Location
- Bottom of Wats Dyke
Unfortunately probably about all they are capable of.Given that they are that useless, hopefully they haven't the ability to breed....
No, so: in lights off. Head lights are on. I was taking about tire pressure monitors I though Hugh had mentioned
Tarw Coch
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- Location
- Bottom of Wats Dyke
primmiemoo
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- Location
- Devon
When they're all EVs, will cars be programmed to go clippity-clank when there's a tyre pressure problem?
Canada Farmer
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Tomr10
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By young ladiesEh???
Canada Farmer
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Why would young ladies be interested in useless drop kicks? Ffs if they are incapable of changing a flat tire then surety they wouldn't have the intelligence to be able to reproduce?
Tomr10
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Looking at your name I guess your not in the uk. They are drawn to them here
ridger
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- Location
- Tyrone, Northern Ireland
That's the kind of men women seem to like
Paddington
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- Location
- Soggy Shropshire
On holiday in London with my parents years ago we got a puncture. Dad pulled into a side road and started to change the tyre but the fitters had used a windygun and he couldn't get the nuts undone. A chap mowing his lawn came across and offered a hand. As a boy he looked huge to me and had played for Blackheath, but after much grunting and heaving still couldn't shift them. His larger brother appeared who had played for Harlequins, pushed him aside and pulled on the wrench. Still nothing, so first brother went off to the nearest garage and came back with a mechanic and spider wrench. Muttering "amateurs", the mechanic pulled on the wrench, there was a loud crack... and the end on the wrench broke off. Apparently my question of "what team do you play for, mister ?" did not help. We got the wheel off eventually, a bigger spider with a person at each end.
- Location
- Scottish Highlands
I remember changing a trailer wheel as a kid. 10’ bar on 3/4 sockets and would not budge the last three even when jumping on the end. Thought I’d try the tightening trick to break the rust, and they spun off. What idiot had put half and half of right and left hand threads on the same hub, I wondered.
Steevo
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- Location
- Gloucestershire
I always think it’s mad that tyre shops do the wheel up hard with the windy gun, then “check” it with the torque wrench. Always end up over tightened.
Tarw Coch
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- Location
- Bottom of Wats Dyke
The drive to reproduce must be one of the strongest instincts in any creature.
There’s a hospital/home the other side of down for kids/young adults with a certain birth defect, the name of which escapes me but they all tend to have chubby happy faces although their brain capacity seems to be that of a very young child.
Many years ago they used to milk a few cows there, they used to help clean up after milking which basically involved smearing the few plops of cow sh!t all over the floor for the cowman to clean up afterwards such was their lack of capacity to perform a simple task yet as the dairy engineer pointed out, all them girls are on the pill because they could work out how to do that.
As I say, one of the most basic animal instincts.
Maybe Canadian women are more sensible but I’ve seen plenty of examples of women falling for wrong uns, it often ends badly for them yet they go for the same type again.
- Location
- North Norfolk
When, as students, we took the Land Rover IIA down to Senegal across the Sahara, in the wetter area of Senegal had a puncture, put on the spare, but did not notice that the dish the wheel nut sits in was rather rusty. When the next puncture came in that wheel, it was next to impossible to get off by hand.
My trick was to use a T-bar on a socket, and a pipe extension on the T-bar with the end resting on the road. A very sharp and quick engagement of clutch dug a hole in the tarmac, bent the T-bar but released the nut.
caveman
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- Location
- East Sussex.
Tip for undoing tight wheelnuts.
Put a socket and bar on them.
Apply pressure to bar.
Smack the socket end above the nut with a hammer.
Put a socket and bar on them.
Apply pressure to bar.
Smack the socket end above the nut with a hammer.