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Post by Ginger on Jul 8, 2014 10:44:52 GMT -6
Just watched two videos where the cars had this symptom. Exact same sounds. Guess that was it. I hope he also replaced your tire fluid when he did this. My sister had to have her lugnuts tightened and the guy who did it forgot to refill the tire fluid after and two days later her front tire caught on fire because the fluid was so low. I never thought to check the tire fluid, damn it! However, I do expect the place that removes tires for a repair to the car, to actually put them back on correctly, which would include tightening them. Maybe I should also make sure they tightened the screws for the sway bar they replaced two weeks before. If they can't tighten lug nuts maybe they didn't do that right either.
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Post by egadsto on Jul 8, 2014 11:01:13 GMT -6
I hope he also replaced your tire fluid when he did this. My sister had to have her lugnuts tightened and the guy who did it forgot to refill the tire fluid after and two days later her front tire caught on fire because the fluid was so low. I never thought to check the tire fluid, damn it! However, I do expect the place that removes tires for a repair to the car, to actually put them back on correctly, which would include tightening them. Maybe I should also make sure they tightened the screws for the sway bar they replaced two weeks before. If they can't tighten lug nuts maybe they didn't do that right either.
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Post by thunderhawk on Jul 8, 2014 11:21:35 GMT -6
So...I took the van in yesterday and the guy called a little while later to say that all he had to do was tighten the lugnuts on the front tires, a quarter of a turn, and the noise went away....I don't hear it. Do you think it's BS? No. They fucked up the lug nuts on my mother's SUV once so badly that the fucking wheel came off and went rolling down the highway. They use nut drivers that are specified to tighten the nut with just the right torque (you can probably hear them in the background if you're waiting in a service area. Sounds like an intense, quick drilling noise.) If they don't do it just right those nuts are gonna be loose, because the tool is calibrated explicitly to not over-torque, which can fuck up the nut and the rest of the assembly.
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Post by BrainFerentz4Prez on Jul 8, 2014 12:20:07 GMT -6
Thor is a gearhead? Who'd a Thunk it. Thor is a totes renaissance man. He aint even fraid to snap a picture of a stranger in an airport.
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Post by GhostMod 5000 on Jul 8, 2014 12:42:01 GMT -6
Thor is a gearhead? Who'd a Thunk it. Thor is a totes renaissance man. He aint even fraid to snap a picture of a stranger in an airport. Skinny calves probably got a peak of The Destroyer at the urinal, and didn't want a fucking thing to do wif the gawd of thunder.
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Post by A boy named Sioux on Jul 8, 2014 13:34:38 GMT -6
Thor is a gearhead? Who'd a Thunk it. Right, calibrated impact wrenched. Maybe at the BMW or Mercedes dealer, but at the local tire shop they just run the rattle gun at whatever air pressure the tank is running.
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Post by GhostMod 5000 on Jul 9, 2014 13:00:36 GMT -6
Not down here in NECKAR country. These local grease monkeys are legit. They'll realign your knuten valve and have you back at top speed in minutes. Tighten the gas cap, and laugh at the dumbass Yankee they just charged $400.
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Post by Ginger on Jul 9, 2014 15:29:33 GMT -6
Freak isn't a dumbass, willy. Doormat maybe but definitely not a dumbass.
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