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[Bigron]

What is the correct torque setting for wheel nuts, please?
If I use a garage in future I will insist on their using that setting - and NO bloody windy gun!

Ron.

[Shackeng]

110nm

[TheBoy]

What is the correct torque setting for wheel nuts, please?
If I use a garage in future I will insist on their using that setting - and NO bloody windy gun!

Ron.

As Shackeng says, 110Nm

It will "tighten" over time - this is more the bolt starts to stick (corrosion), particularly between the taper and an alloy wheel.  You are supposed to add a thin smear of grease occasionally to the taper, but few ever do.

[Mr Gav]

....
...... after ATS mongrels but the wheel bolts up to 10,000Nm a couple of weeks before.   ....

The Senator had a solid bar on its wheel brace unlike the Omega's thin walled tube ...... I was bending the Senator's brace trying to undo a wheel with it. I took back to ATS to make the point

The Omega wheel brace is made of chocolate, the only thing I achieved with it was to round it off on the one occasion I didn`t have my extendable brace with me.
Never had a problem with the standard jack though, it`s certainly not good but it is adequate. 

[Webby the Bear]

That small red jack that stemo speaks of is what I carry round. It's light and small and will lift up a corner safely enough.

For home I have a big machine mart one. Love it

[Webby the Bear]

Oh and breaker bar with 17mm socket.

[Sir Tigger KC]

I have a small red trolley jack which will lift the Omega OK, but I tend to use the standard jack even at home as I find it easier and just 'feels' better. 

I keep meaning to treat myself to a bigger trolley jack..... 

[terry paget]

The supplied screw jack has the merit of picking up a very low car, too car for my trolley or bottle jacks. When I dropped my car into the pit a couple of years ago the only jack that would pick it up was the screw jack, which goes into a tube in the chassis.

[ronnyd]

Both my supplied jacks are sh*t, one was from when i scrapped my PFL. They go up but won,t go down, screwed collar just spins. Now have  a meaty scissor jack and a 6" square bit of oak fence post. Also an axle stand too. So far havn,t had to use it thankfully

[78bex]

I`ve only used it once in anger on the side of truely dreadful carrigeway

The car started swaying around from the rear & I knew summat was up & slowed to a halt.
The nearside rear was almost flat, but the jack coped with the low attitude & raised the car.
What I didn`t realise was the jack was sinking into some bodged up black stuff.
When I offered up the spare, I was winding up again quite quickly to get some more clearance.
Some twit hadn`t compacted the tarmac correctly & the jack had sunk about an inch 

[Nick W]

I`ve only used it once in anger on the side of truely dreadful carrigeway

The car started swaying around from the rear & I knew summat was up & slowed to a halt.
The nearside rear was almost flat, but the jack coped with the low attitude & raised the car.
What I didn`t realise was the jack was sinking into some bodged up black stuff.
When I offered up the spare, I was winding up again quite quickly to get some more clearance.
Some twit hadn`t compacted the tarmac correctly & the jack had sunk about an inch 

That's not really the jack's fault though? I've had decent sized trolley jacks sink into tarmac.

[Diamond Black Geezer]

On the plus side, I find the standard Vx wheelbrace fits perfectly into a halfords 3 ton trolley jack for when you need a shorter lever (wall in the way, etc) 

[Sir Tigger KC]

On the plus side, I find the standard Vx wheelbrace fits perfectly into a halfords 3 ton trolley jack for when you need a shorter lever (wall in the way, etc) 

Glad you found a use for it.