Spotted this today all four wheels were the same! Looked like long bolts with spacers on but not sure!
Doesn't look to safe to me! Anybody know what it is?

They are shotgun shells covering the wheel bolts , I have seen it loads of times but the shells have been trimmed down so don't stick out so much .

Cue the music from Deliverance (Da da ding ding ding ding ding ding ding).

But what's the relevance/point?

A bit like rusty Volkswagen's and the luggage on the roof rack!

Why?

Scene points

I think it's so that if any of the wheel nuts come loose, the NRA in America gun down a few children.

On a similar topic does anyone know what those yellow pointy things on truck are for?

Just as JC referenced, they are wheel nut indicators, to give the driver a visual on wether the nuts have moved/come loose/ been tampered with, part of the pre use checks you are meant to do as part of the Driver CPC

Whooooosh!

Robotrish, may I suggest you search "yellow pointy things" in the forum search engine?

Brilliant! He he

Perhaps the lack of smilies on my original post was a little unfair....

Courtesy of Emjay!

I'd just like to point out - I saw some yellow pointy wheelnut thingies the other day which were *not* yellow. Perhaps they have some different function.

As an aside, I have calculated that my head weighs the same as approximately a thousand of the yellow pointy thingies.

Oh dear should I have posted in the crap joke thread