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Re: [GMCnet] Who do we trust? Do we have to check others work more often now days? [message #328052 is a reply to message #328049]

Mon, 08 January 2018 18:21

k2gkk

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My nearest Discount Tire outlet claims to use settable torque wrenches for final tightening. I have watched them do it!

D C "Mac" Macdonald
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I had new tires installed by a Discount Tire dealer a few years back on my GMC. On the way home I felt a vibration on the front and pulled over and found the right front tire loose and wobbling. I tighten the nuts and
I turned around and went back to the dealer. They found that none of the wheels had been torqued. So since then I have always checked the torque of lug nuts myself after getting work done on tires. Many times I have found then only torqued to 60 or 80 ft lbs. in spite of my instructions to torque to 140 ft-lbs. Incompetence is rampant!

Emery Stora
77 Kingsley
Frederick, CO

> On Jan 8, 2018, at 4:56 PM, Bob Dunahugh wrote:
>
> Had the left front tire on my Astro fixed at a tire center Sat. Was just on Interstate 380 at 70 MPH. Noticed a sound that didn't sound good. Pulled to the side of the interstate right then. All the lug nuts were about 20% unscrewed. The LP fill problem, and this can get people killed. Bob Dunahugh
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		[GMCnet] Who do we trust? Do we have to check others work more often now days? By: BobDunahugh on Mon, 08 January 2018 17:56
		Re: [GMCnet] Who do we trust? Do we have to check others work more often now days? By: Emery Stora on Mon, 08 January 2018 18:08
		Re: [GMCnet] Who do we trust? Do we have to check others work more often now days? By: USAussie on Mon, 08 January 2018 18:26
		Re: [GMCnet] Who do we trust? Do we have to check others work more often now days? By: k2gkk on Mon, 08 January 2018 18:21
		Re: [GMCnet] Who do we trust? Do we have to check others work more often now days? By: jhbridges on Mon, 08 January 2018 20:13
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