View Single Post
Old 04-13-2015, 07:47 AM   #21
healthservices
Registered Boxster abuser
 
healthservices's Avatar
 
Join Date: Oct 2011
Location: socal
Posts: 1,014
Quote:
Originally Posted by derfo View Post
Hello I live in the UK. I have never in my life used a torque wrench on the wheels of any of my cars. I am now just on 66. The car I have now is a Boxster S 2002. The first thing I do when I buy a new car is take all the wheels off so I can copper grease the threads, then use a spider to tighten. This has been my procedure for all those years.
It's funny you mention that. Anytime work is done on a car where the wheels are off, I remove and re-torque the wheels. very rarely are they torqued correctly and majority of the times they are over torqued. Sometimes my snap-on impact has issues removing them. At that point I make sure to contact the shop where I had the tires put on!!!

:troll:

On one of the Toyotas I work on, the torque rating is like 65 for the lugs. OMG it feels like they are finger tight compared to Porsche's wheel torque. But I never have issues it at that rating.
healthservices is offline   Reply With Quote