VTS_16v_Boy
4th May 2007, 06:45
You know somedays you just shouldnt have gotten out of bed, when you buy or own a saxo these days just seem to pop up more than you might think. And yesterday was no different.
As some of you may or may not know I changed my S alloys for a set of Series1 Rallye Steel wheels. Now I had been told I need to change the wheel bolts by a few people but others including the tyre shop that fitted by tyres said there was not need - wont be going back there then.
So anyway the S went in to have a few minor unimportant jobs done yesterday and my mechanic comes to pick the car up and returns it. So he turns up about 4:30pm and says I done this done that alls alright except . . .
He goes on to tell be that bolts in the wheels which are/where the items for the Alloy wheels with the flat face have damaged the treads in the hubs and that I needed tapered bolts for steel wheels. And here lays my current problem.
In short Im looking a Full set of new hubs, the fact that I mucked them up makes me feel sick and I didnt get much sleep last night for that very fact!
But when I was fitting my new bolts last night, the wheels where coved in brake dust, the car on the whole was dirty, there was bird shat on the wind screen and to top it all off my centre caps wont fit now as the correct bolts are smaller and dont hold the caps on so the car basically looked crap.
So Im just totall out of gas, so many things going through my head - Do I fix the car and carry on or sell the car at a lose and just carry with something new.
Christ know what 4hubs is gona cost.
Just wanted to get that off my cheast.
As some of you may or may not know I changed my S alloys for a set of Series1 Rallye Steel wheels. Now I had been told I need to change the wheel bolts by a few people but others including the tyre shop that fitted by tyres said there was not need - wont be going back there then.
So anyway the S went in to have a few minor unimportant jobs done yesterday and my mechanic comes to pick the car up and returns it. So he turns up about 4:30pm and says I done this done that alls alright except . . .
He goes on to tell be that bolts in the wheels which are/where the items for the Alloy wheels with the flat face have damaged the treads in the hubs and that I needed tapered bolts for steel wheels. And here lays my current problem.
In short Im looking a Full set of new hubs, the fact that I mucked them up makes me feel sick and I didnt get much sleep last night for that very fact!
But when I was fitting my new bolts last night, the wheels where coved in brake dust, the car on the whole was dirty, there was bird shat on the wind screen and to top it all off my centre caps wont fit now as the correct bolts are smaller and dont hold the caps on so the car basically looked crap.
So Im just totall out of gas, so many things going through my head - Do I fix the car and carry on or sell the car at a lose and just carry with something new.
Christ know what 4hubs is gona cost.
Just wanted to get that off my cheast.