Having seen on Watchdog the program where trading standards officers found that over 60% of the garages in the East Midlands were not ensuring that the wheel nuts were tightened to the correct torque figure after the wheels had been re-fitted with the air-gun, it worried me as some of these so called reputable (well known) firms did not know when questioned what the torque settings were for all makes of car and is some cases it was a best guess using a car that was "similar" to one they had the data for!!
I have experienced this first hand in many of the garages used in Leicester and I have to always ask for the fitters to torque the wheel nuts to the correct settings and in most cases the fitters appeared to guess the torque figure and dismissed my concerns as "all mercs of this type are the same", however when I actually got them to check at the garages I found that they were incorrect.
Also, when I removed my wheels recently I noticed that removal of the offside rear and nearside front wheels were considerably more difficult than the other 2, so if all of my wheels were torqued to the correct settings does this mean then that the ones that were easier to remove had just become loose!!???
Incidently, can someone in the know just clarify what the torque figure is for my CLK 430?
I have experienced this first hand in many of the garages used in Leicester and I have to always ask for the fitters to torque the wheel nuts to the correct settings and in most cases the fitters appeared to guess the torque figure and dismissed my concerns as "all mercs of this type are the same", however when I actually got them to check at the garages I found that they were incorrect.
Also, when I removed my wheels recently I noticed that removal of the offside rear and nearside front wheels were considerably more difficult than the other 2, so if all of my wheels were torqued to the correct settings does this mean then that the ones that were easier to remove had just become loose!!???
Incidently, can someone in the know just clarify what the torque figure is for my CLK 430?
