Disc retaining screw - why?!!

I think I must have changed front discs on VWs more than ten times and every ffing time the ffing disc retaining/screw is seized! Crap design or do I always buy from idiots who have never heard of copper grease!

Anyway, today was the first time I had to admit defeat. I had to resort to drilling the ffers out and put the new discs on without the screws.

Just thought I'd let you know. crap day and all that. But hey, at least my new lights arrived today

**Sorry, should have put this in chat section.

Couldn't we have a "moan" forum.

**Sorry, should have put that in the "new forum suggestions" forum
Edited by: mr.brown

 

All its for is to hold the disc in place in the factory while its moving along the line so it's easier for the workers!

 

Easy to remove old screw.After drilling head off it spray it with penetrating oil ,leave for a bit , then drill small hole and use a easy out/screw extractor and there you go.I find it is better if they are in as no bits of sh1t can fall between hub and disc before putting wheel on and the wheel will not run out.

 

i dont have any on mine, bit of a pain sometimes locating the stud holes when fitting the wheel, but a lot less hassle than dealing with seized screws!
Edited by: Gambit

 

I never fit them on mine. Pain in the butt.

 

I phoned up loads of car spares shops and hardware shops regarding some kind of tool such as mentioned above but was met with the telephonic equivalent of a blank look.

I'd be grateful if you could point me in the right direction.

 

halford sell um

 

try:

http://www.screwfix.com/app/sfd/cat/pro.jsp?ts=05026&id=1864 3

4.29 for the set.

Simon.

 

Cheers. 5.95 p&p though, so I'll wait till I need something else as well - quite like the look of their 6-in-1 trim removal tool...

 

its worth spending a bit on easy-outs cos if they break you end up having to drill out toughened steel. I got some for about 20 quid and managed to break one in a seized brake caliper bolt. Oh so no fun

 

I bought a set of easy-outs from snap-on, surprisingly cheap (30 ish) and lifetime warrany.

I drilled my snapped retaining screw out, it was becoming a pain lining the wheel-disk and spacer up, best 10 mins I ever spent!

If you cover the treads in coppa=-slip it won`t sieze in..

 

Three cheers for Copperslip, and two fingers to all the monkeys out there who never use it !

 

My old "impact driver" used to get that sort of thing free quite easily - whereas 3 mins with the wrong shaped cross-head screw-driver would mangle it smooth...

 

If it`s well siezed in you just snap the head off the screw normally, mine was like it when I bought the car I think..

 

Yep halfords and any decent tool supplier.

 

Dont bother with the screws, the heads always seem to be made out of metal looking plasticine on mine

 

Never had a problem in nearly 10 years VW ownership. Oh yeah, they can be tight alright, but with the precision application of brute force, things always come out okay in the end.

Maybe I'm just lucky...

 

when I changed the fronts on mine, I used an Allen head countersunk screw, which is about 99999999999999999 times easier to both tighten and loosen, and wont go all corroded and manky like the normal phillips head screws. Cost virtually nothing from my specialist toolshop! Try it!

 

I haven't got any retaining screws on my front disks and have never had any problems, there's no way they are load bearing

 

You`ve missed the point, it`s just easier to change the wheels over without f**king about lining the disk holes up..