Have you ever had a wheel bolt snap?

Simple survey. Has this ever happened to you, if so, post up why it happened (if you know).

Cheers.

 

I'm guessing your other thread got deleted?

No, never happened to me - although I've had a loose wheel before, of my own doing

 

No, but have seen a situ where a wheel not sitting on a hub centre (ie wrong PCD/no spigot ring) has caused a failure of two. Results in increased shear forces across thread.

(Thread is in mods section at Phat's request btw)

 

at my request, yes.

 

OK, just curious, as I read it earlier

 

That's the only (other) time I've known it. Tyre monkey knocked the split pin when refitting my mates 306 wheels. it stopped the wheel sitting on properly, and he tightened the weird Peugeot flat faced bolts with a windy gun, and snapped the security locking bolt.

 

no never snapped one or seen it happen...been in motortrade 16 yrs

 

Yes.
Brand new VW item , mainly due to having the touch of an elephant.
Personally I don`t think they make them like they used to.

 

M12 or M14?

 

M12.
Although M14 would have suffered the same fate in my hands.
Oh and it didn`t actually snap as such initially but stretched which seemed to be wrong.

 

nope

 

i snapped one on an e30 bmw, whilst doing up.

my dad snapped one or two on a tranny van, doing them up.

my brother snapped two (consecutively) whilst trying to get some nuts off a e class merc.

with the tranny, the disc and hub came off and we put a new bolt on

merc has to have the broken bolt chiselled out

e30... cant remmeber

 

according to autodata, i think they said a wheel nut needed 40nm right?

 

I hope not, think you'll find it's more like 110nm

 

Never seen it, or heard of it happening to anyone I know. That includes me driving for months with no spigot rings in.

 

Mine just kind of turned to cheese. Snapped off, threads were clean, bolt was going in straight. Must have been a faulty wheel bolt. When i got to drilling the leftover part out of the rear disc, it wasnt even tight.

 

my chimp mate had one brake and i had the job of sorting it out for him

 

had the same thing happen on my old clio williams,twice, I think it was down to a bent hub carrier as it was not true, so when the tyre fitters put the gun on it to tighten them up they snapped clean off.
wasnt cheap to fix either bloody williams bits!

 

Phat, thats a proper nasty, faulty bolt kinda break, explain more.... (It looks like a McGuard)