Fixing advice from our garage proprietor Steve Rothwell IN PARTNERSHIP WITH
VAUXHALL COMBO
Wobbly wheel bolt
Very often some of the problems I come across could have been avoided with a little patience and a little more care, but often the constraints of time and attempting to rush can have an adverse effect. This owner discovered that fact when they were rushing to change the wheel after a puncture on a wet night. In retrospect they may have been better to just slow down and get wet, but in their rush to get the spare wheel in place, they cross-threaded one of the wheel bolts on this 2008 Vauxhall Combo diesel van.
Rather than have another attempt at getting the bolt into place correctly, he simply used as much force as he could muster to get the wheel bolt to go fully into place. Thankfully this was the only bolt that was incorrectly fitted and so the rest of the wheel bolts were securing correctly holding the wheel in position.
The owner apparently managed to forget about the problem, so when bringing the wheel in to have the puncture repaired, asked me to fit it back in place. It was only after I discovered the cross-threaded bolt that he then admitted to the error.
Even though the bolt sheared off on removal, the situation was recoverable using a drill and then cleaning the thread with a
