What is the correct torque for a mag wheel nut - can't find anything in the manual so far. Anyone know?

just finger tight will do lol

didn't know there was an figure to tighten them to, just as tight as you can but not break your back burst vein in forhead tight.........

Well in other cars I've had there's been an actual figure involved - hence the asking. I've got them at 70lbs at the moment which is about right for the thread diameter.

if you strip the thread its time to stop going to gym!

90 -110 Nm for TH to current

Every nut and bolt in every car has a safe/optimal, torque rating. As mentioned, 90-100Nm is good for wheel nuts.

90 -110 Nm for TH to current

thanks Phil - I new someone would have the figure in their head!

just as tight as you can but not break your back burst vein in forhead tight.........

what if you're a 70 year old-3 pack a day smoker-anorexic-diabetic-aesthmatic man?

OH LOOKSY! ITS MY 2000th POST ON THIS FORUM!!!
OH LOOKSY! ITS MY 2000th POST ON THIS FORUM!!!
OH LOOKSY! ITS MY 2000th POST ON THIS FORUM!!!

what if you're a 70 year old-3 pack a day smoker-anorexic-diabetic-aesthmatic man?

get your son to do it :nuts:


lol

oh, this could go on all day lol

ok...what if your son lives far away, and you live on a rural property, and because you're a faggoty old man nobody likes u and doesn't want to help you?
:P

I guess you'll have to ring up RACQ huh...


THIS IS MY 2001TH POST!!! W000T!!2oiueytw78ryifglafsujk

what if you're a 70 year old-3 pack a day smoker-anorexic-diabetic-aesthmatic man?

OH LOOKSY! ITS MY 2000th POST ON THIS FORUM!!!
OH LOOKSY! ITS MY 2000th POST ON THIS FORUM!!!
OH LOOKSY! ITS MY 2000th POST ON THIS FORUM!!!


on second thought sell the car and wait to die lol

it was a privilege to be a apart of such a silly 2000th post :P

I see you are coming up to your thousandth post BlkMAG! :)

holy crap i am to!!! lol

so I shold stop using the rattle gun to do them up, then check them with a wheel nut spanner? and get out the torque wrench and do it properly :doubt:

The correct torque is tight enough so the wheels don't come off while you are driving !!!

The correct torque is tight enough so the wheels don't come off while you are driving !!!
But loose enough so you can still get them off with the ****ty stock nut remover from your boot, by yourself, in pouring rain, on the side of a deserted highway at 4 am :)

But loose enough so you can still get them off with the ****ty stock nut remover from your boot, by yourself, in pouring rain, on the side of a deserted highway at 4 am :)
or after TM-RED-SE does a line locky in his parents VT and tears a tyre apart and its pitch black and still sticky and hot from the skid :badgrin:

or after TM-RED-SE does a line locky in his parents VT and tears a tyre apart and its pitch black and still sticky and hot from the skid :badgrin:

VX but...

HAHAHAHAHAHA :bowrofl: :bowrofl:

it sucks driving and hearing this... WHACK, WHACK, WHACK, WHACK, WHACK... rubber strips hitting on the underside of the wheel well. ohwell, not mine

respect still :cool:

so I shold stop using the rattle gun to do them up, then check them with a wheel nut spanner? and get out the torque wrench and do it properly :doubt:

You can use a rattle gun, but use a torque limiting bar if you do.

The correct torque is tight enough so the wheels don't come off while you are driving !!!


But loose enough so you can still get them off with the ****ty stock nut remover from your boot, by yourself, in pouring rain, on the side of a deserted highway at 4 am :)


or after TM-RED-SE does a line locky in his parents VT and tears a tyre apart and its pitch black and still sticky and hot from the skid :badgrin:

There is a way, even with the factory POS wrench.
If any of you are at the NSW Newy/Central Coast/Sydney combied cruise on Fri night, I will show ya.

I am not a beefy guy either..... so simple you will hate me..

There is a way, even with the factory POS wrench.
If any of you are at the NSW Newy/Central Coast/Sydney combied cruise on Fri night, I will show ya.

I am not a beefy guy either..... so simple you will hate me..
Thats a bit of a stretch from brisbane I'm afraid, can you describe it? :)

I did post torque figures, but I've always used my calibrated elbow to tighten wheel nuts and never lost a wheel yet.
Aww sh*t yes i did :redface: came off my boat trailer and never ever saw the wheel again :bowrofl:.

Yeah, ok.

You basically use your foot. You don't jump in it, put the wrench on so the handle is horizontal, put your foot on it and step up onto it. You may need to bounce on it very gently (I am only 76-80kgs, but if you are 90-100kgs, you shouldn't need to.

I undid a lady's Landcruiser 100 series that this other guy had stopped to help, he was doing it with his arms and having trouble (was done up by a rattlegun).

It took me about 90 secs to have the wheel off, and about another 90 secs to get the spare on. And I am a weedy type of guy, not at all built. This guy looked like a rugby front rower. He was very embarrassed and said he was going to use that trick as well.

I said goodbye and took off lol