Torque Wheel Lugs Nuts - Increase The Life Of Your Brakes

Have you ever had a problem with your steering wheel move from right to left when you went to apply the brakes of your car? The reason why, usually in most cases is the rotors in the front brakes rotors are wrapped. The wheel nuts weather they are locking, aluminum or chrome were improperly torqued and this causes warpage when the rotors get too hot from braking. Your rotors are out of round and this is the shimmy you feel on the steering wheel.

Torquing the wheel nuts will make or brake how long your brakes last before you need to do them again. A brand new brake job costing you hundreds without properly torqued wheel nuts will not last as long. Torquing is a simple thing but is over looked most of the time. The only way to get fix this is a new brake job. Try to get new rotors if you need them. They are so cheap now it is better to buy new instead of getting them machined down straight. For the little extra money it is well work getting new.

If you get a brake job or get new tires put on your tires are rotated or any other reason you take your tires off you must ask to get the wheel nuts torqued. When you drop off your car at the repair center ask to get your wheel nuts torqued. When you go to pick up your car, ask how much they torqued the wheel nuts too. If you have a torque wrench at home it is a good idea to check it yourself. I have had new snow tires put on and I ask it they were torqued and they said yes. When I went home and checked it, I couldn’t get the wheels off. I ended up snapping off the wheel nut. A great way to find out what the torque would be is too go to your nearest online library and looking for and online manual in the electronic section. My library has a great online repair manual. You can find one at the Richmond Public library’s website www.yourlibrary.ca.

Making sure your wheel nuts are torqued will increase the life of your brakes but will also allow you to get your wheels off if you ever get a flat.

Use A Torque Wrench To Increase The Life Of Your Brakes