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It wasn't a helicopter crash but a plane crash which was caused by the banner itself that the plane was attempting to drag on take-off and nothing to do with the plane itself.

Here's a question. How many people go back to a garage 50 - 100 miles after a wheel change to have the nuts/studs retentioned? It's a requirement after all wheel changes but few do it and then wonder as to why a nut (or 2 or 3) loosen and drop out.

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Is it? I literally didn't know that.

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If anything they tighten nuts too much with their machines, makes it impossible to change a tyre manually these days.

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It is, but do we know if he had all four tyres changed at the same time, because every nut on every wheel was loose (allegedly)

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Indeed - I had to get Green Flag out after I had a puncture at home as I couldn't get the nuts off the wheel.

Even they then had to get the long wrench out and stand on it to get enough torque on the wheel nuts.

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Used to do it at quite a few places that I used to test cars for varying manufacturers. Just Google it as it should be common knowledge.

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So you'd prefer a torque that is suitable for you and not the proper torque for the wheel?

:banghead:

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To be fair to the guy, he didn't want this news to become public knowledge....

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You're only supposed to tighten them with an impact wrench to the point they can still be removed with manual tools (Standard OP at Nissan) If you're still tightening it to the point the impact wrench is juddering then they're doing it wrong. The fact is I've seen it done by mechanics over and over and I've seen people at NMUK get a bollocking for it. They hold the wrench in place till the thing is literally juddering not to mention warping the top. If anything, Mr K's point is completely valid in some cases.

Without the risk of incurring a wrath and not meaning anything myself by this. The exact words I got from NMUK big wigs in Sunderland whether this is unofficial or not. Only ever tighten the nut to the point a woman could undo it.

Source: Standard OP documents at NMUK.

As for an example, it's hard. You apply the wrench and press the trigger, once it stops rotating freely you let go and apply a manual check. Once you've done this for for months on end you become pretty aware of when it's about to start juddering and when it's nice and snug.

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Depends on the setting of the wrench. Also the wrench is only supposed to be used to get the nuts/studs to a point (where it judders as thats how an impact wrench works :rolleyes: got 6 of them here in the workshop and support vehicle) where they can be finished off using a torque wrench to the specified setting. All service manuals will specify a setting for which a mechanic will be expected to tighten to. Few owners manuals will specify a wheel change these days apart from to fit a spare for emergency purposes only and all manufacturers will expect the owner to get the original wheel properly refitted by a mechanic to replace the spare.

Nissan specify between 75ft/lb to 90ft/lb for most vehicles, that requires a hell of an effort to loosen with a short wrench as supplied with most vehicles and even then bodyweight may have to be used to loosen a nut after its corroded on after a year and even then it might not come loose.. Or is that Nissans fault?

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Sorry, wording it poorly, that's it. The impact. The point I was getting across was to clowns that are still pushing the trigger 5-10 seconds after. Just to trying to justify some of what Mr K was saying. Not speaking against all mechanics their either but there's plenty of lazy inept ones in industrial estates.

In fairness before I went to NMUK (No longer work there anyway) I always thought you just pressed it till it literally wouldn't creep any further :erm:

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I'm glad the place I get my tyres use the impact wrench for an initial tighten and then a manual torqe wrench correctly set for the final tighten.

Overtightening can cause the studs/bolts to fail, apart from the user being unable* to loosen them when needed and is just as dangerious as under tight.

*Bit of scaffold pole ;)

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Well naturally that's what your meant to do and most reputable places do. A lot of individual and single shop mechanics will too obviously but there's plenty of cowboys.

I can half name a place as I don't wish to expose personal information, it's in Sunderland and they specialise in write off's and maintaining cars for taxi use (rented out to taxi companies)

They go absolutely mental with 'windy guns' and myself and grandfather could never get the nuts off (Grandparents owned a firm) The reason I'd rather not name is because farting around with windy guns wasn't the only thing they were useless at. 'Fixing' write off's and selling them :erm:

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Depends if you can name the vehicle line up, AFAIK there were only 4 line vehicles whilst I was present, Note, Juke, Leaf and Qashqai.

Being completely honest, I never loosened one there without the windy gun so I couldn't tell you what they're like to take off manually, employees were just told a woman should be able to remove it. It should be their fault though if they can't be removed, everything in their op sheet has to be followed unconditionally by all employees. At the time I assumed someone as reputable as that knew exactly what they were doing. Then there's the opposite side of Mr K's point, not being able to take your wheel off without a trip to the mechanics? or your wheel just falling off whilst driving.

''There's a reason it's done this way'' That's what you're told if you question it.. without ever hearing that reason :rolleyes:

For reference if possible of course (Nissan specify between 75ft/lb to 90ft/lb for most vehicles) what would you consider optimal? using either your own opinion or another manufacturers.

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I wonder why he mentioned it, then?

He also said which has been directly contradicted by the French Garage owner and police. So he first said the mechanics were absolutely certain of foul play, and then said he never mentioned any mechanics....

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Again who wants 'no further action' if someone tried to kill them and since when was that something the police had to have the permission of the victim to follow up on?

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He said this and he said that. Without any evidence of the conversation at all it becomes nothingness.. or what we call 'tabloids' :D

On another note what if it is a genuine assassination attempt, Cologne this week tells you the police can try and cover things up and of course in that case failed miserably. Conspiracy theorists wet dream. Movie coming 2017.