local garage fail

[General Baxter]

last Monday had my tyres fitted

Tuesday went for mot, failed on tyres (tread to extreme), exhaust, horn (not loud enough) anti roll bar bush, n/s/f bearing


changed the anti roll bar, done the exhaust, horn, roll bar bush,
come to take the wheel off and ALL the studs snap on the front, with me just undoing them with a breaker bar, wheel falls off,

the tyres were fitted by 3 apprentices, and looks like the have done the nuts up to tight as they have stretched and broken

do i have a leg to stand on, due to its been out the garage?

edit: other nuts have been cross threaded

[mowgli]

they shouldn't have simply snapped on a breaker bar, the threads must have been well distorted when they bolted them up to do that on all of them.

I think you can certainly go round & give them some stick.

What you could do is check what the recommended torque figure is, then go round with a torque wrench, add 5 lbft to it & attempt to tighten them. if it fails, which it will, then they are at fault.

Weren't the tyres e approved?????

the trouble is that they might possibly argue that the tyres caused it but it is a bit tenuous. did you try the other bolts on the other wheels?

[General Baxter]

tyres are e-approved, just mot man being a nob, taking it some place else


well i have 24 studs intotal

10 are edit, cross threaded
6 have snapped,
when undoing them 7 of them were even loose as in spin via finger tips

[mowgli]

was it those cowboys on carlyon road?

[General Baxter]

nar not elite tyres, fast fit garage

[Adam]

Sounds like the idiots just gunned them up without screwing them on a few turns by hand first....
Classic apprentice laziness TBH

[L14MNP]

Easy fix if similar to other Nissans mate, rotate the hub and tap the studs out.
That's a piss take what they have done though!

[mowgli]

I know a good 4x4 place in Earl Shilton called Hilltop, they mostly deal in them.. just make sure your track rod ends are fine because they always reckon one is knackered

[General Baxter]

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a191/baxters83/Image004-2.jpg

nut, broken, streched, good one

[General Baxter]

Easy fix if similar to other Nissans mate, rotate the hub and tap the studs out.
That's a piss take what they have done though!

dont be silly, auto lockers off, bearings out, hubs off, disk from hub, then knock the bolts out the hub lol

[General Baxter]

I know a good 4x4 place in Earl Shilton called Hilltop, they mostly deal in them.. just make sure your track rod ends are fine because they always reckon one is knackered


mark are they open on a sunday?

[mowgli]

I reckon you should report them to the police for that..
or get trading standards involved & threaten legal action

[Nobby]

fookin hell not good!! go and give them a bollocking!

[mowgli]

mike are they open on a sunday?
I can't remember. they are on 01455 840998

[General Baxter]

mark, mike close enough lol

im going to make them pay for it tho,

£2per bolt, £8 per nut need 24 of them

[mowgli]

mark, mike close enough lol

im going to make them pay for it tho,

£2per bolt, £8 per nut need 24 of them

& at least 4 hours labour @ 1 kidney per hour.

I think you should give them the opportunity to remedy the work to your satisfaction first.

[mowgli]

mark, mike close enough lol

not for me it isn't :thumb:

[General Baxter]

& at least 4 hours labour @ 1 kidney per hour.

I think you should give them the opportunity to remedy the work to your satisfaction first.

its on my drive in bits tho lol

id rather do the work my self now, they pay for the bits, ill fit :thumb:

4 hours, it took me 6 to get the disk from the hub lol

[mowgli]

yeah but did you go round & give the manager a good shake to get him to agree to it yet?

[General Baxter]

closed, was at work 5am till 12pm, started on the car, after work, shut till monday


going to walk in monday had throw the hub at his head :p

[mowgli]

closed, was at work 5am till 12pm, started on the car, after work, shut till monday


going to walk in monday had throw the hub at his head :p

Ahh, you are trying Diplomacy first, if that fails what's your plan?

[General Baxter]

throw sometihng harder, then trading stds

[Philsutton]

Its shocking that people are unable to fit wheels, I would hate to see their attempt at doing a head gasket. Well I lie I have had to fix a bodged one before where someone had trapped the loom between the head an block and then started it.

There is no hope for spaz's like that, although you will find that will claim to be really good practically due to the fact that they cant read / write. Fact is they are crap at everything.

[General Baxter]

There is no hope for spaz's like that, although you will find that will claim to be really good practically due to the fact that they cant read / write. Fact is they are crap at everything.


if i could read and write, id forget how to do my shoe laces up, i can not even remember how to put a tie on lol

[Phil_G]

Its shocking that people are unable to fit wheels, I would hate to see their attempt at doing a head gasket. Well I lie I have had to fix a bodged one before where someone had trapped the loom between the head an block and then started it.

You have to be kidding, right?

As for the studs, I dread to think how hard they went at them to do that sort of damage!

[brainsnova]

my car flew the m.o.t test lol 1993 nova 1.2

[Philsutton]

You have to be kidding, right?

As for the studs, I dread to think how hard they went at them to do that sort of damage!


Nope its all true, even seen people use exhaust gaskets for inlet gaskets, worrying thing is thats what they do as a job. :roll:

[mowgli]

Nope its all true, even seen people use exhaust gaskets for inlet gaskets, worrying thing is thats what they do as a job. :roll:

my local vauxhall dealer sold the missus an airflow meter when the inlet manifold was loose because they hadn't tightened it up when the cambelt snapped under warranty.

I've heard about garages fitting recon gearboxes then not filling them with oil, then trying to claim the driver was at fault when it melts.

[Philsutton]

Sounds about right really, there are some right monkeys around. Ive had to tell vauxhall how some of their cars / engines work before which is shocking really.