close call
Hi to all from Denny and Ida, I wanted to post this just to let everyone know to check everything "EVEN LUG NUTS" when you are about to go on a trip. My wife and I were going to our favorite camp gro...
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I've turned into a crazed lunatic about tires and wheels.
I've had a bad experience each time I go to the tire shop I'm almost at the point of buying a tire machine an balancer I do not trust or have any faith whatsoever in the industry.
If you go to a place that uses tourque sticks with a impact gun run don't settle run first question I ask. Next KNOW your specs don't trust that they will magically know your tourque specs and adjust accodingly.
Better yet bring your own tourque wrench and check them yourself. Tourque sticks break studs or make them too loose. Too tight will warp rotors and fail wheel bearings. I've had to replace studs almost every time I go to a shop and after the last episode of them having a spec 40lbs over what's called for I'm forever taking matters into my own hands.
I've had friends true story drive 3 hours 80mph stopped in a town felt a shimmy and turned into a tire shop and watched the wheel pass them into the parking lot.
I check air and tourque before every trip. Completely OCD but have yet to have a blowout or stud broken on the rv. I can't even count how many people I see with rvs sitting on the side of the road with blown tires.
Single most important thing I've learned here. Replace, replace, replace those tire 3 to 5 years don't think just act.
Sorry for the rant but as a certified mechanic watching people with no training at all put the single most important safety item on your vehicle it bothers me to hear stories about broken studs and loose lugs dangerous isn't the word lethal and deadly would more appropriate
I've had a bad experience each time I go to the tire shop I'm almost at the point of buying a tire machine an balancer I do not trust or have any faith whatsoever in the industry.
If you go to a place that uses tourque sticks with a impact gun run don't settle run first question I ask. Next KNOW your specs don't trust that they will magically know your tourque specs and adjust accodingly.
Better yet bring your own tourque wrench and check them yourself. Tourque sticks break studs or make them too loose. Too tight will warp rotors and fail wheel bearings. I've had to replace studs almost every time I go to a shop and after the last episode of them having a spec 40lbs over what's called for I'm forever taking matters into my own hands.
I've had friends true story drive 3 hours 80mph stopped in a town felt a shimmy and turned into a tire shop and watched the wheel pass them into the parking lot.
I check air and tourque before every trip. Completely OCD but have yet to have a blowout or stud broken on the rv. I can't even count how many people I see with rvs sitting on the side of the road with blown tires.
Single most important thing I've learned here. Replace, replace, replace those tire 3 to 5 years don't think just act.
Sorry for the rant but as a certified mechanic watching people with no training at all put the single most important safety item on your vehicle it bothers me to hear stories about broken studs and loose lugs dangerous isn't the word lethal and deadly would more appropriate
