| Re: [GMCnet] Who do we trust? Do we have to check others work more often now days? [message #328136 is a reply to message #328048] |
Wed, 10 January 2018 17:09   |
JohnL455
Messages: 4447
Registered: October 2006
Location: Woodstock, IL
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No one comes within air hose reach of any of my vehicles. I brought my Alcoas to tire shop 3 at a time then rechecked balance on my machine before installing and hand torquing to the Alcoa pattern. Don't get me started with directional and corner specific tire / wheel mounting. 3rd Gen Firebirds with 16x8 have front and rear only wheels stamped FRONT and REAR in the castings. Due to different offsets. Put a rear in front on one side only and it will pull the wheel out of your hand if you brake hard. I was aware of this so it was easy to spot on friends car with eratic handling problems. Then he had a guy super over torque aluminum wheel nuts with an impact 90 spec up to 150. So he want back and the mgr had the tech redo the car by setting a tq wrench to 90 and hitting all the lugs, but never loosened them first. So he said they were all FINE. All fine but still at 150.
John Lebetski
Woodstock, IL
77 Eleganza II
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