What'd you do to your car this week/weekend?

13r · Post by **13r** » Tue Oct 09, 2012 8:33 am

Furai wrote:You dont say....

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Basically I got given the formulas and worked it out but it didnt include all the variables.[/img]

Wow...

That's pretty funny

At leaset you wont need to slowdown for speed bumps, or small children

Furai · Post by **Furai** » Tue Oct 09, 2012 8:35 am

1000!! Haha had to.

Im fitting the rear springs tomorrow lets hope it doesnt lift like the front did.

chris · Post by **chris** » Tue Oct 09, 2012 9:11 am

You can 4 X 4 anywhere!

Including your driveway

When is the next meet... I want to park mine next to yours

chris · Post by **chris** » Tue Oct 09, 2012 2:06 pm

Finally booked the car in for a cert!!

siren676 · Post by **siren676** » Tue Oct 09, 2012 7:01 pm

chris wrote:Finally booked the car in for a cert!!

Just saw what happened on facebook

think it'll be repairable?

chris · Post by **chris** » Wed Oct 10, 2012 8:25 am

Whoop! Booked in for a cert nek minnit wheel comes flying past me.

Yes repairable. Can I justify spending more money on it? Nope.

Soooo That looks like the end of my MX5 life

13r · Post by **13r** » Wed Oct 10, 2012 8:28 am

wow, that really sucks.

So you going to sell up? Or sit on it for a bit until you realise you really do want to keep it?

chris · Post by **chris** » Wed Oct 10, 2012 8:38 am

I want to keep it, I really do...

By the beginning of next week I will have a definitive answer. I will be talking to the shope that I brought the lug nuts from as this is 1. A liability claim and 2. Bloody dangerous!

tomtikki · Post by **tomtikki** » Wed Oct 10, 2012 8:40 am

13r wrote:Or sit on it for a bit until you realise you really do want to keep it?

I hope you hadn't already paid for the cert inspection!?
I'm sure with the help of the folk on here we could get you back on the road in no time, not that I know the extent of the vehicular injurys.
It's almost summer and you've got a bitchin car for it..

chris · Post by **chris** » Wed Oct 10, 2012 8:50 am

Haha nope! Cert was on Friday!!

I could get it up and running now, but it would be whorey. And more or less an insult to everything I have done to it

Euen · Post by **Euen** » Wed Oct 10, 2012 10:48 am

Chris, just being devil's advocate here, but did you have enough thread engagement between the studs and the lug nuts. If the wheel centres on your new wheels were thicker than standard then that is a serious risk. It is not easy to see from your photo of the wheels whether the lug nuts sleeve inside the wheel or whether they are just a tapered seat.

Timmo · Post by **Timmo** » Wed Oct 10, 2012 10:49 am

13r wrote:wow, that really sucks.

So you going to sell up? Or sit on it for a bit until you realise you really do want to keep it?

Huh? Can you explain what happened in a bit more detail?

chris · Post by **chris** » Wed Oct 10, 2012 11:33 am

Timmo wrote:
13r wrote:wow, that really sucks.

So you going to sell up? Or sit on it for a bit until you realise you really do want to keep it?
Huh? Can you explain what happened in a bit more detail?

I brought new wheels for the car, and they needed new lug nuts, so I went to get some, got some and drove maybe 20 kms on them before the thread basically tore off

Snapfrozen · Post by **Snapfrozen** » Wed Oct 10, 2012 11:53 am

Along with his wheel

Snapfrozen · Post by **Snapfrozen** » Wed Oct 10, 2012 11:55 am

Euen wrote:Chris, just being devil's advocate here, but did you have enough thread engagement between the studs and the lug nuts. If the wheel centres on your new wheels were thicker than standard then that is a serious risk. It is not easy to see from your photo of the wheels whether the lug nuts sleeve inside the wheel or whether they are just a tapered seat.

I asked the same thing.

Not being a dick, but until we know the answer, we can't give advice on who to blame or speak to

chris · Post by **chris** » Wed Oct 10, 2012 12:00 pm

I followed the intructions and torqued them all to the reccomended pressure.. Other than that I know that they fitted the lug..

Snapfrozen · Post by **Snapfrozen** » Wed Oct 10, 2012 12:15 pm

So they're flat or round? And the wheels are the same? What is the ID of the hole inside the lugs that locates around the hub?

chris · Post by **chris** » Wed Oct 10, 2012 12:19 pm

they are flat, like the wheel. I'm not sure on ID as I am at work

Mr. Shine · Post by **Mr. Shine** » Wed Oct 10, 2012 2:41 pm

What they're asking is did you have locating rings installed with the wheels? If the centre bore of the wheels is larger than the car's hub diameter then you need hub locating rings installed, or the weight on the wheel will be held by the wheel nuts and not the hub as it should be.

I'm assuming they're OG Sakura wheels, and a bit of Googling suggests their centre bore is something like 73mm. Considering the MX-5's hub diameter is some 54mm, that's almost a centimetre out around the side of the hub.

I'm reluctant to say it, but if the case is that you did not have locating rings installed, it's not the fault of the wheel nuts

chris · Post by **chris** » Wed Oct 10, 2012 2:45 pm

No.. I got told by the guys that gave me the wheels I wouldnt need the locator rings..

Mr. Shine · Post by **Mr. Shine** » Wed Oct 10, 2012 2:48 pm

chris wrote:No.. I got told by the guys that gave me the wheels I wouldnt need the locator rings..

Have edited my post above. Sounds like bad news, then.

chris · Post by **chris** » Wed Oct 10, 2012 2:49 pm

So... Basically I am fucked?

Mr. Shine · Post by **Mr. Shine** » Wed Oct 10, 2012 2:57 pm

chris wrote:So... Basically I am fucked?

Assuming your wheels don't match the car's hub diameter, it's not a fault with the wheel nuts, so pretty much.

Pretty rough lesson if that's the case

chris · Post by **chris** » Wed Oct 10, 2012 2:58 pm

well fuck! haha

The guy literally told me "oh, you will be sweet without them"

Looks like the car will be up on TM soon as is where is.

siren676 · Post by **siren676** » Wed Oct 10, 2012 3:09 pm

Shit that reminds me, I still have to get some locator rings for mine.

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