A half hour job that took half a day

tegwin · Post by **tegwin** » Tue Jul 10, 2007 11:19 pm

Had the day off work today so figured I would jack my car up, whip off the wheels...screw on the new mudflaps and have the car back on the road in a few hours....

It took me just over an hour to remove one wheel... It was so badly coroded to the hub that I had to bash the buggery out of it with a rubber mallet...loosen the nuts and drive the car about and jump up and down on it before it finaly popped off...

I guess the t*t who took the wheels off for the last set of tyres (proberably about 2 years ago) kinda forgot to use copper slip.....

The other back wheel took an equal length of time and effort to remove....thankfully the front has recently had a nice shiny pair of yokohamas so some other poor sod had the pleasure of braking the corosion for me...

Needless to say, the car is now sat back on its wheels complete with a good smear of copper slip greece.....

Rant over!

sorted · Post by **sorted** » Wed Jul 11, 2007 10:56 am

First time i took the rear wheels off the GTi - it was the same.

Be sure to take a bit of sandpaper and sand the hub then cooper slip.

tegwin · Post by **tegwin** » Wed Jul 11, 2007 1:47 pm

Did the "garage" style thing and whipped a wirebrush on the end of a drill onto the wheel... then copperslip...

Tim_GTi · Post by **Tim_GTi** » Thu Jul 12, 2007 6:30 pm

got any pics with the mudflaps on? i was considering them not so long ago

tegwin · Post by **tegwin** » Thu Jul 12, 2007 8:15 pm

No I dont...but will get some later

I have a red Polo so they kinda contrast the bodywork and I recon finish the wheelarches off and imrpove the look a helluva lot...

Il get some pics and u can decide for urself!