Jump to content
SAU Community

Recommended Posts

Well after a RICE cruise last night where I had a nasty vibration in the rear end...almost sounded like a diff-clunk, driveline chatter..... well. I found out what it was!

Upon closer inspection of the rear-end, ie looking at diff's tailshafts etc... I jacked the car up to have a look underneath. Only to find my rear-left side wheel nuts were all LOOSE! (YES! Including the lock nut!) I was like WTF? So I tightened them up trev-strength-stylez, and thought I'd go take a look at the other side.. OMG TWO MISSING! Some theiving ARAB tried to steal my white enkei's!

My car was parked at City West undercover all day on friday, which it hardly ever is.. So I reckon it's some chumps around there. They must have been distracted/scared away as they only done half a job on either side. Who knows.. if it had gone the other way, my rims woulda been gone!

So just a warning to all you guys that have shit-hot rims, lock nuts mean F*** ALL, and be sure to check your rims if you've parked your car in a dodgy area!

Link to comment
https://www.sau.com.au/forums/topic/41111-always-watch-where-you-park/
Share on other sites

kym, are they the "standard" lock nuts you can get from just about anywhere?

Nismo sell a special lock nut that comes with a special tool and I doubt many people here would have them. Thing is, any mechanic would have the correct tool to undo them ..

Good to hear you didn't loose your rims, thats what counts...

but yeah anyone can just hammer on a socket that is a tiny bit to small and use that to get the locknut off, or use a chisel etc...

only so much you can do... best is to park somewhere with high visibilty to people walking past, lots of lights etc... or dont park at all

Yeah.. I ain't leaving my car in any car park now!

*sigh* Yep. I had jap-spec lock nuts when I first got the car, and they were dam hard to get off.. I know this cos I lost the lock nut and failed to find a match for them. I had to replace them with the common-get-from-anywhere nuts!

$140+ for new nuts?! WTF! Might have to go sell my ass on the street corner for those mofo's! But hey, it'll be worth it!

The vibration is caused was pretty bad too, I just hope it hasn't done anymore damage (ie wheel bearings, shafts etc) I guess I'm lucky the wheel didn't come off and slice off the studs and rip out the rear-quart's!

wow close call

I had a neighbour with a HSV that wasnt so lucky (and these things come with 18s?)

and we live on mounts bay rd apartments! the car was parked in front of the lobby!

I came back after a night out at 2AM and saw his commodore on 4 bricks

which was kind of a funny sight hahah

the next morning he called the police and questioned a few of the tenants

apparently it was done around midnight.

oh the funny thing I almost forgot to mention,

apparently after midnight one of the tenants came out and saw the car, but 2 of the rims were gone but the other 2 was still there. So he must have scared the thieves off, but he didnt report it to anyone so these guys came back later and finished the job with the last 2

I must say these guys are pretty daring or stupid

bad luck kym ;)  

get ROH's ..... common as shit ..... couldnt pay the barsteds to steal them off me LOL

As Stupid as that may sound to some.... :) I couldn't agree with you more !! there are definitely certain advantages to being just like everyone else....

yeah i nearly had them off and some bastard came walking around the corner... :(

;) good to hear that you got outa that one alright kymbo....as for me i was driving down the road and about 20 blokes were standing on the side of the road....

the group slowly molded onto the road as i got closer to them (doing about 50kph) and then one ran out onto the road with something in his hand (i think it was a bottle) and try it hit my car.... he succeeded in his task hitting my mirror, braking all the mechanics inside :D and smashing the mirror :)

we hunted around all night for the group with 3 car loads of people and we found them eventually, it was fun :P

i think its time for a roo bar... :cuss:

Well after a RICE cruise last night where I had a nasty vibration in the rear end...almost sounded like a diff-clunk, driveline chatter..... well. I found out what it was!

Upon closer inspection of the rear-end, ie looking at diff's tailshafts etc... I jacked the car up to have a look underneath. Only to find my rear-left side wheel nuts were all LOOSE! (YES! Including the lock nut!) I was like WTF? So I tightened them up trev-strength-stylez, and thought I'd go take a look at the other side.. OMG TWO MISSING! Some theiving ARAB tried to steal my white enkei's!

My car was parked at City West undercover all day on friday, which it hardly ever is.. So I reckon it's some chumps around there. They must have been distracted/scared away as they only done half a job on either side. Who knows.. if it had gone the other way, my rims woulda been gone!

So just a warning to all you guys that have shit-hot rims, lock nuts mean F*** ALL, and be sure to check your rims if you've parked your car in a dodgy area!

Sounds like my story last year at Morley.....

Shame on you ARAB!!!

MarkR33,

Yeah, they have security footage of that carpark.. but the D*ckheads at city west are intent on charging $70+ to VIEW the tape. Even then it's not good quality, and the most I can do is get their rego/face and hunt them down nazi-style... :( *sigh*

Michael,

ahah! LOL! If it were Fane trying I'm sure i'd find man-jizz at the scene of the crime.. it'd be a dead giveaway! :)

Fane,

OMG! That's goatass! Gav'll be able to hook you up with some new mirror!

Create an account or sign in to comment

You need to be a member in order to leave a comment

Create an account

Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!

Register a new account

Sign in

Already have an account? Sign in here.

Sign In Now


  • Similar Content

  • Latest Posts

    • Even more fun, leave all the ADAS stuff plugged in, but in different locations, hopefully avoid any codes!   And honestly, all these new cars with their weird electronics. Pull all the electronics out Duncan, and just shove an aftermarket ECU and if needed a trans controller in, along with a PDM. Make it run basic but race car styled!
    • To follow up a question from earlier too since I had the front bar off again (fking!) This is what is between the bumper and the drivers side wheel And this is the navigator side, only one thing but its a biggy! So basically....no putting coolers in the wheel arches without a lot of moving other stuff. Assuming I move to properly race prepping this car I'll take that job on and see how the computers respond to removing a whole bunch of ADAS modules
    • So I prepped the car for another track day on Wednesday (will be interesting to see coolant temps post flushing out and the larger reservoir, with a forecast of 3-14 being 20o cooler than last time I took it out). Couple of things to mention; since I am just driving the car and not taking a support vehicle, I took the rear seats out and just loaded the back up Team Trackday style. Look at all that space! To cover off removing the rear seat....it is weird (note the hybrid is probably different because it wouldn't have folding rear seats) Basically, you remove the lower seat base, very similar to a r series but it is a clip that pulls forward to release the base rather than it being bolted down. Easy Then, you need to remove the side section of the rear seat on each side. There is a 14mm head nut at the bottom of the side piece, the it slides upwards off a hook at the top to release; you also need to unhook the seatbelt from the loop at the top. Then the centre piece is weird. You need to release/fold the seats forward with the tab in the boot on each side From there, there are 2,x12mm headed bolts holding the rear of each seat to the folding bracket, under the trim between the rear seat and the boot (4x christmas tree clips there, they suck). The seat is out but you can see where the bolts attach to the bracket
    • As discussed in the previous post, the bushes in the 110 needed replacing. I took this opportunity to replace the castor bushes, the front lower control arm, lower the car and get the alignment dialled in with new tyres. I took it down to Alignment Motorsports on the GC to get this work done and also get more out of the Shockworks as I felt like I wasn't getting the full use out of them.  To cut a very long story short, it ended up being the case the passenger side castor arm wouldn't accept the brand new bush as the sleeve had worn badly enough to the point you could push the new bush in by hand and completely through. Trying a pair of TRD bushes didn't fix the issue either (I had originally gone with Hardrace bushes). We needed to urgently source another castor arm, and thankfully this was sourced and the guys at the shop worked on my car until 7pm on a Saturday to get everything done. The car rides a lot nicer now with the suspension dialled in properly. Lowered the car a little as well to suit the lower profile front tyres, and just bring the car down generally. Eternally thankful for the guys down at the shop to get the car sorted, we both pulled big favours from our contacts to get it done on the Saturday.  Also plugged in the new Stedi foglights into the S15, and even from a quick test in the garage I'm keen to see how they look out on the road. I had some concerns about the length of the LED body and whether it'd fit in the foglight housing but it's fine.  I've got a small window coming up next month where I'll likely get a little paint work done on the 110 to remove the rear wing, add a boot wing and roof wing, get the side skirt fixed up and colour match the little panel on the tail lights so that I can install some badges that I've kept in storage. I'm also tempted to put in a new pair of headlights on the 110.  Until then, here's some more pictures from Easter this year. 
    • I would put a fuel pressure gauge between the filter and the fuel rail, see if it's maintaining good fuel pressure at idle going up to the point when it stalls. Do you see any strange behavior in commanded fuel leading up to the point when it stalls? You might have to start going through the service manual and doing a long list of sensor tests if it's not the fuel system for whatever reason.
×
×
  • Create New...