Pin box bolts not secure.
We have a 200 mile trip planed later this month. We recently picked up a new 5er and from information learned on this forum, I decided to check wheel lug and pin box bolt torque. 30 of the 32 wheel lu...
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mguay wrote:Dave H M wrote:
The pin box bolts were so loose on my Laredo that they showed some movement as evidenced by the washers being moved from the original paint line. I replaced them with grade 8, torqued them, painted around the washers and never looked back - except to check for paint separation that is.
My Laredo did the same thing and my fix was the same as yours! Been good for 3yrs and about 20k so far...
Be careful changing the grade of your fasteners! Some bolted connections are engineered with a "sheer" factor and if changed may cause an adverse effect.
