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Originally Posted by Top_Ghia
I’m not making excuses for Ford as the nuts are a poor design.
But the info is out there and Ford recommend not using a rattle gun to do them up as it will distort the nut covers.
Most of the damaged ones I see have been to the local tyre shop where they do every wheel nut up to 600nm with there rattle guns.
They will tell you they don’t and tighten them all by hand but that too is rubbish. They do every nut up super tight with a rattle gun and then check it by hand.
Generally speaking cars that have only been serviced at the dealership are ok as the Ford techs have been dealing with this issue for 10 years or more.
Our techs will run the nuts up with a gun and then tighten them with a torque wrench.
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You mean you're not supposed to do everything up to 'FT'
It was 110nm back in my day for wheel nuts, with a torque wrench
