Had a flat tyre, nail went through side wall, tyre cannot be repaired,,,,ring around,,,good price...please fit the new tyre to the vehicle and move the existing tyre to the spare location.
All done happy customer drives out of the repair shop and I notice the mechanic using a cordless device to tighten a fairly easy nut and I thought humm is that how the spare wheel cover nut has been tightened on my vehicle? Park the vehicle, pull out the spanner from Toyota Genuine tool kit, try one ..no go...humm...flex arms try two..no go..embarrassing..try three more muscle and I could almost see the spanner slipping over the nut....turned back to the shop the senior mechanic comes out and first comment upon seeing the spanner ....is that what you have to use to open this nut...yes sir it is factory supplied...mechanic tries the spanner and fails....at this point I am thinking Hume highway...recent rains and a poor slim guy trying to get the spare wheel cover off...well the mechanic returns with a socket set and and long lever and again with some considerable force opens the nut. My next question to mechanic... is that same force been used to tighten the wheel nuts as well?...nah nah it is all torqued to the specific vehicle...no argument ...drove off..back home...Toyota genuine kit again and almost needing a hammer and a heavier person to undo the wheel nuts....re-tightened the wheel nuts to a reasonable torque and some thing that I can manage on a road side.
Question...what is a reasonable way a person on the road side changing a tyre know that the wheel nuts are done up safe? Do people carry another tool kit or is there a bare essential that you need apart from the Toyota supplied jack and tool kit. I have not mentioned anything about the jack...it could take two pages for that![](https://www.pradopoint.com.au/core/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif)
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All done happy customer drives out of the repair shop and I notice the mechanic using a cordless device to tighten a fairly easy nut and I thought humm is that how the spare wheel cover nut has been tightened on my vehicle? Park the vehicle, pull out the spanner from Toyota Genuine tool kit, try one ..no go...humm...flex arms try two..no go..embarrassing..try three more muscle and I could almost see the spanner slipping over the nut....turned back to the shop the senior mechanic comes out and first comment upon seeing the spanner ....is that what you have to use to open this nut...yes sir it is factory supplied...mechanic tries the spanner and fails....at this point I am thinking Hume highway...recent rains and a poor slim guy trying to get the spare wheel cover off...well the mechanic returns with a socket set and and long lever and again with some considerable force opens the nut. My next question to mechanic... is that same force been used to tighten the wheel nuts as well?...nah nah it is all torqued to the specific vehicle...no argument ...drove off..back home...Toyota genuine kit again and almost needing a hammer and a heavier person to undo the wheel nuts....re-tightened the wheel nuts to a reasonable torque and some thing that I can manage on a road side.
Question...what is a reasonable way a person on the road side changing a tyre know that the wheel nuts are done up safe? Do people carry another tool kit or is there a bare essential that you need apart from the Toyota supplied jack and tool kit. I have not mentioned anything about the jack...it could take two pages for that
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Thanks for reading.
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