Winter tyres

mikey72

I just swopped the wheels back to the wheels with the summer tyres.

3 hours.


The two front ones had seized to the hubs, they're hubcentric, and for the first time ever for me with steel wheels they had rusted up.
Lump hammer on the inside of the wheel, driving up and down the street from side to side of the road with the wheel nuts loose, lump hammer again (with wood inbetween).
Repeated several times.
Eventually they went.
Then my wife turned the car around to do the back wheels, as I'm now filthy, first one came off eventually, then she turned it around again, and I wound down the spare to rotate onto the back, jacked it up, started to get the back wheel off, with a bit of pulling, and it rolled backwards off the jack.
Luckily the wheel was still in the wheel arch.
So it's now sitting with the back disk on the inside of the wheel, and the tailgate is now jammed into my motorhome parked behind it.

I tell her to roll the motorhome forward.
"I'll have to move my car" (about four feet in front).
Move it then.
"I'll have to get my keys"
By this time I've got the jack out, jacked the car back off the wheel, and got the wheel back on, and it's lifted the tailgate away from the van with the angle of the lift.
"Don't bother, ........... is the handbrake on?

She checks
"click!"
"Yes"

So eventually I straighten out the dust shield on the disk, swop the wheel over, put the spare back under, wind it back up, wash everything, and it's 3 hours later!

So, roll on winter, and I can do it again.

only_mee

I bet you use copper slip, oh no you didn't

jase1

Heh, had the same problem last year when I changed a flat tyre over for the spare and left the spare on for a couple of months out of laziness.

Must get copper grease lol.

peterbaker

He he

Sounds like a day from my life - pick a day - any day

Bet it feels good to get it of your chest though.

You deserve a beer mate :beer: two in fact (first one's just to wash the dust out :beer:)

and the missus - she deserves one :beer: but not two ([STRIKE]click![/STRIKE]hic!)

Wig

I had stiff wheels on the corsa, a bit of sand paper to the wheels and hub and they fly on and off now.

You need a trolley jack, those little jacks are very dodgy when you start banging on your wheels. It's happened to me a few times when I noticed the (little) jack starting to slip, have to quickly put the wheel studs in again tighten and lower the jack. I usually have a brick behind the other three wheels.

Flying-High_2

You'll need to man up before Winter then:p

diable

You took your time it's been summer for the last month down south..............

jase1

I can understand it.

March wasn't especially nice weather -- it's been sunny this weekend.

No harm in running winter tyres through March, it's not as if the car is going to jump into a ditch at the first sign of direct sunlight! I've seen a few cars with winters on the last few weeks.

Flying-High_2

So what kind of wear have those with Winter tyres encountered?..... I've had BFGS fitted to both cars as usual and not had any problems... I've not missed any work neither has the GF and I'm in Hicksville N.Wales.

The Pickup I lost to drifts... the snow was higher than the doors out in the fields... Not really had any snow to test the Merc ML... If its still here by next winter it'l be on BFG ATs or General Grabbers.....

Plenty of last winters Winter tyres appearing on ebay.... Seems a nearly new set of Alpins can be had for well well under £200.

mikey72

Flying-High wrote: »

So what kind of wear have those with Winter tyres encountered?..... I've had BFGS fitted to both cars as usual and not had any problems... I've not missed any work neither has the GF and I'm in Hicksville N.Wales.

The Pickup I lost to drifts... the snow was higher than the doors out in the fields... Not really had any snow to test the Merc ML... If its still here by next winter it'l be on BFG ATs or General Grabbers.....

Plenty of last winters Winter tyres appearing on ebay.... Seems a nearly new set of Alpins can be had for well well under £200.

Nearly new, they'll last for years at this rate.
AT's or General grabbers are ok on mud and snow, I've used them before, but winter tyres are much better on compressed snow and ice.

Flying-High_2

mikey72 wrote: »

Nearly new, they'll last for years at this rate.
AT's or General grabbers are ok on mud and snow, I've used them before, but winter tyres are much better on compressed snow and ice.

The MLs going on BFG ATS or Generals as its used at home... GF has horses and we farm...The 4wd is used and abused. They are the best alround solution.... it came on new Scorpions and TBH they are crap they spin on my lawn on a damp day.... Forget the bottom fields in depth of winter,

Theres no way I'd cough up for winter tyres but a year old set at less than half price seem appealing come next winter for the car I use for work... currently a Vectra,....