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Model specific boards => Golf mk3 => Topic started by: crazystevie on 09 March 2009, 08:28
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I bought a 1993 8v i got it off ebay,wellon the way home their was a awfull mechanical type noise from the front it sounded like a drve shaft or cv fault,any way i got on the moterway and when i got toabout 80ish i didnt here it,well later on i went out going down the road pulled out of a junction and the front nearside wheel fell off,their was only one wheel nut holding it on,the disk was all lose and not secure,the screw that secures the disk has been sheerd off at some point,so i took a nut off the other 3 wheels to get me home,although it did take a while to line the disk up as it kept moving,does anyone know what size the wheel bolts are!!,many thanks,steve.
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They are M14x1.5 but if you have standard VW alloys they are a rounded taper fitting.
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the front nearside wheel fell off,their was only one wheel nut holding it on,the disk was all lose and not secure,the screw that secures the disk has been sheerd off at some point,so i took a nut off the other 3 wheels to get me home,although it did take a while to line the disk up as it kept moving,does anyone know what size the wheel bolts are!!,many thanks,steve.
Thats f**king shocking!
Although dude, you so should have checked before you got in the car to drive it away!
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:shocked: :shocked: That's very lucky it didn't come off on the motorway
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Hi,guyes i know its partly my fault as i should have given the car a good checking over,i am not sure if i should leave bad feedback on ebay as i dont like doing that,i have orderd a set of locking nuts i will have them to-morow,in the meantime i have 4 nuts on instead of 5 they are tight and i tried it,although the noise has gone and the steering and braking is responsive their is a binding noise from the front left brake disk when turning at low speed,the nut that secures the disk in place has sheered off,so the wheel bolts are holding the disk in place,i am not sure if this would be ok,if not i will have to try and get the old screw out so i can secure the disk,thanks to everyone for your replys.
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Hi,guyes i know its partly my fault as i should have given the car a good checking over,i am not sure if i should leave bad feedback on ebay as i dont like doing that,i have orderd a set of locking nuts i will have them to-morow,in the meantime i have 4 nuts on instead of 5 they are tight and i tried it,although the noise has gone and the steering and braking is responsive their is a binding noise from the front left brake disk when turning at low speed,the nut that secures the disk in place has sheered off,so the wheel bolts are holding the disk in place,i am not sure if this would be ok,if not i will have to try and get the old screw out so i can secure the disk,thanks to everyone for your replys.
I know Buyer Beware etc but you could have been seriously hurt as could many people around you. This seller sold you something that was clearly unroadworthy and needs to be reported but to be fair you are a doughnut for not doing basic checks. :shocked:
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To be fair yes maybe you should have checked but lets be honest who has ever checked the wheelnuts on a car when collecting it.
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The disc screw is just to make it easy when fitting wheels. You don't need it if you don't mind chasing the holes around with a wheel bolt.
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Been in a similar situation myself!
Was my old Pug 405 GTX coming back from working in Bristol. Got withing 10 miles of home on M4 and heard a noise. Sounded like bearing or something so just carried on and went to mates garage. He has a good look around and grabs wheel to check for play!
He says You numpty with a few expletives in there the bloody wheel nuts are undone!
So I sympathise!
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To be fair yes maybe you should have checked but lets be honest who has ever checked the wheelnuts on a car when collecting it.
Well, considering there was only one nut on the wheel a simple glance at them would've done the trick... :lipsrsealed:
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seller shud have know and shudnt let anyone on road with that. u very luky mate some one looking down on u
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To be fair yes maybe you should have checked but lets be honest who has ever checked the wheelnuts on a car when collecting it.
Well, considering there was only one nut on the wheel a simple glance at them would've done the trick... :lipsrsealed:
Maybe, maybe not, they could have fell out on the way home.
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I had to drill one the screw out on one front disc, as they do corrode up etc. But its not a problem if you dont have it in as the bolts hold it in place. But when you only have 1 wheel bolt then its a problem! bad news mate.
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To be fair yes maybe you should have checked but lets be honest who has ever checked the wheelnuts on a car when collecting it.
Well, considering there was only one nut on the wheel a simple glance at them would've done the trick... :lipsrsealed:
Maybe, maybe not, they could have fell out on the way home.
If they were loose they can easily just fall out. They did so on our people carrier. And where rattling around inside the hub cap thing.
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Should you leave bad feedback???
I think yes! That peasant could have left you 6 feet under mate, and others.
Unless they geniunely came off themselves and i take everything back i said.
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I'd get onto him. He should re-inberse the cost of wheel nuts at least.
Sure it hasn't damaged anything?
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well i have left bad feedback on ebay,i sent him an email last night he replied to and said sorry but it was ok,well i dont accept that,as i have said yes i should have give the car a good check over wich i did,i even checked the tyres etc but just never thought of wheel nuts,well i supose its a lesson learnt,i dont think any damage was done apart from the wheel well where the one nut was is now oval instead of round,their is a vibration coming from the floor on the near side i think its the exhaust,but i will check more to-morow,many thanks for all you replies.
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Think i would want to get this car in the air, and check over all of the suspension and steering before i drove it tbh.
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^^As above if the wheelnuts were loose what else has been left or could be wrong.
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A simmilar thing happend on my old honda accord, went into Dover, parked up went fishing, came back out and drove home, started hearing what i thought was a bearing going and then when i got home, jacked the car up and the wheel fell off, some tw*t in dover had undone the wheel bolts. (the wheels looked like alloys but werent)
Also a friend of mine had her wheel actually come off on a dual carriage way, wrecked her wheel arch and it was a beautiful modded mk2 left hooker. :cry:
Dan