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my bloody mechanic!! #1286941
06/11/2011 12:33
06/11/2011 12:33

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I recently had my new engine dropped in my car and i had a banging on the front end i thought it was the brakes at first i have been driving it for a week with both my kids in the car one 5 year old and one 3 months i check the wheel bolts today and the wheel had nearly fell off all the bolts was very loose grr shocked

Re: my bloody mechanic!! [Re: ] #1286946
06/11/2011 12:45
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Eek, close call.....

That happened to me as well at the dealer I used to take mine to.

Worst of all years ago when I was doing some cross-border coach driving for Scottish Citylink I started complaining to my co-driver about the steering wheel knock on the M1 heading for London. Running a bit early we pulled into the layby at Milton Keynes to let the pax pick cherries yes lick and I nipped round to check the wheel and found all the nuts finger loose shocked 10's of pax on board.....a trawl round the adjacent trucks produced a wheel brace and it gave us around 24 hours to think how to lynch the black squad when we returned to Stirling the following day.....


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Re: my bloody mechanic!! [Re: ] #1286952
06/11/2011 12:55
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Originally Posted by Burbum123
I recently had my new engine dropped in my car and i had a banging on the front end i thought it was the brakes at first i have been driving it for a week with both my kids in the car one 5 year old and one 3 months i check the wheel bolts today and the wheel had nearly fell off all the bolts was very loose grr shocked


shocked Just as well you checked them and you've been very lucky.

Re: my bloody mechanic!! [Re: ] #1286961
06/11/2011 13:10
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If only someone made a yellow pointy thing you could stick on the wheel nuts.


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Re: my bloody mechanic!! [Re: ] #1286970
06/11/2011 14:04
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It happened to me a few years ago, strange rubbing noise after new cambelt, I was pulling out of a junction on way back to the garage and DSF wheel fell off. Fortunately the body fell on top of the wheel.
Thus if you get any strange noises after engine work particularly cam if they don't tahe your engine out; check your wheel nuts!

Re: my bloody mechanic!! [Re: ] #1286978
06/11/2011 15:09
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And to think these are professionals shocked

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