Disco 2 Wheel nuts again

My wheels are taking off once a every year to clean so 20 times so far ,I've never had any issues with nuts or their removal, although a the locking nut cover, which is stainless, fell off years go being only push fit, soon replace from a main LR dealer.

I know, more useless " information " on wheel nuts




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1988smithy said:

and the stock wheel brace or equivalent socket which fits the normal wheel nuts and the locking tool

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good luck with that I had to buy a 3ft breaker bar to undo mine FFS!!!!!!

cfwnotloB said:

good luck with that I had to buy a 3ft breaker bar to undo mine FFS!!!!!!

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If you haven't removed the wheel nuts for some time (as I said, I change my wheels around every six months or so) then yes, you could well do with a breaker bar or a length of pipe one the end of the wheel brace.
They're fairly big wheels with fairly big wheel nuts so you should be looking at using a torque wrench to secure them properly.
The "book" recommends 140 Nm or 103 lbf.ft in old money.

brian47 said:

torque wrench

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Big 'un on my Xmas list

The easy way top get the cover off is just to spin it with the wheel brace. Comes straight off IME.

brian47 said:

The "book" recommends 140 Nm or 103 lbf.ft in old money.

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once I'd got them off and finished doing all the brakes I torqued them up to the 103 lb/ft as recommended
not taken them off again since - but its a Landy so probably will real soon

iansoady said:

The easy way top get the cover off is just to spin it with the wheel brace. Comes straight off IME.

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+1 on that. Have now given up totally on the stupid plastic tool. If the cover then won't stay on, tough!

Can't say I have ever had a problem with plastic tool. I would like to do without locknuts. Do alloys ever get nicked?

brianconwy said:

Can't say I have ever had a problem with plastic tool. I would like to do without locknuts. Do alloys ever get nicked?

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Lets face it, if the wheel gets nicked, the alloy and the tyre goes. Both cost money. Some gits will nick them just for a decent tyre. If they are persistent they could nick four identical alloys of peoples' spare wheel carriers and run what tyres are on them. Who can tell your new wheels are yours bought and paid for, or just nicked? Some people find themselves being followed home, then left. A few days later their wheel or wheels are gone. I only leave a spare on the vehicle I use most days, wired on with a motorbike lock. On my other Discos, the spare stays locked in the garage. As for the plastic tool, out of three Discos two came with plastic tools with some of the end grippy bits broken, the other came with nothing at all, except the locknut socket and the jack. No jack lever, wheel brace, nothing.

By the way, I wrote quite a long piece for Discourse, the Discovery owners magazine, a copy or two back, about the problems you can have with using the tools that come with the vehicle when trying to change a wheel, all of which happened to me, luckily at home, but any of which could cause an owner to need a mechanic just to change a wheel. If you need to, I can reproduce it here or in a sticky or somesuch. Basically, you can have a problem with the jack, the placky tool, the wheel brace, and the locking wheel nut removing socket. doesn't leave much does it?

Anybody here actually had their wheels stolen?

iansoady said:

Anybody here actually had their wheels stolen?

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This advice was actually given to me by a member who lives nearby when he came to my place, via this website, so we could use his nanocom on my vehicle. But by all means, ignore my advice if you wish it is after all just advice. People going abroad a lot may find themselves particularly vulnerable.