Freshly Refurbed BBS RXII - Sealant??

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Re: Bolt Overtightened stripped thread from wheel :-(

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funlovincriminal wrote:Mate was round last night & helped to tighten up to 30nm, BUT was on last wheel & he set torque wrench to ft pound instead on NM, thus overtightening a couple of bolts & stripping thread from wheel & now they just spinning. Worst nightmare my fault, should have checked.
It there a way to fix this? gutted, 3 of wheels spot on, I'm kicking myself now, should of done em all myself
Not a problem really - remove all the bolts and then applying a bit of pressure on the centre unwind the stripped ones

- The bolts themselves will be fine but the threads will be stripped in the alloy rim

Take the rim to a local engineering shop that do "helicoils" or "threaded inserts" and get them to sort the threads in the rim

Clean the bolt threads of the stripped alloy and re-use
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Re: Freshly Refurbed BBS RXII - Sealant??

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Cheers for that, just gutted as got 95% of it done with no problems! On the bright side I got the bolts out no problem, & I've asked around and theres a couple of places I could take them to get the threads re-done.
At least there's no major rush as they won't be going on the car for a while the way weather is atm.
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Re: Freshly Refurbed BBS RXII - Sealant??

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If ya want iv got a spare alloy wheel all sandblasted ready to paint.....
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Re: Freshly Refurbed BBS RXII

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Cheers for the offer :lol: but i think I'll get them re-threaded if it's poss. I'm getting bugged to get the wheels off the dining room table as we speak, want to get them sorted tomorrow and in the garage :roll:
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