RARGH ruddy audi brakes!!

[Liquid]

"Rant"

Why on earth would you want a 7mm hex key to take off the calliper retainers!!! Who the hell has a 7mm ooo that's right a mechanic:( stupid bolts stupid cars:( I miss my old British MG:( it had a nut to undo, a nut! If it broke hit it with a hammer and it worked. If it didn't, hit it with a bigger hammer and it coughed into life. Spent £400 on new kit for the Audi only for it to tell me to off until I brought another brand new tool I didn't already have:(

"Rant over"

Arrgh feel better:)

[perksie]

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@jonsie wrote:

On the down side a lot of my tools are now obsolete including full sets of the old English Whitworth spanners and sockets but everything is now Metric. On the plus side, if you have an old Austin/Morris car you want working on......:smileyhappy:

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You're talking very good and hard to buy kit there jonsie, don't underestimate it's value!

Liquid could be in the market for a start.......!

[jonsie]

It's a shame they are wasted and I have to give them a liberal dose of WD40 every year. I would never get rid of them though, might have them buried with me!

[Toby]

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@Liquid wrote:
My dream car is still the 68 Lincoln continental. 

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Very good choice

[Liquid]

You could get a pretty penny. Some tools are deemed as antiques now. I have an old hand drill the one with the wooded block up top and you push another block down a corkscrew to power it. Worth about £40.

[perksie]

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@Liquid wrote:
You could get a pretty penny. Some tools are deemed as antiques now. I have an old hand drill the one with the wooded block up top and you push another block down a corkscrew to power it. Worth about £40.

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An Archimedes drill by the sound of it, I think you can still buy them.

[Liquid]

That's the one:) forgot the name. Found one recently in an antiques shop for £40

[Liquid]

Finally got the hex key, got down and dirty fitting my pads and disks(love working on cars) got to the final wheel and guess what! The locking nut has been completely mangled looks like someone's taken a screw driver to it.

Now I definatly checked the bolts before purchasing the car so either I really screwed up or some unscrupulous individual fancied my wheels at some point:( I'd of been done for if I had a flat tyre 😕

Any tips on removing these suckers? I know they're not designed to come out being security bolts and all haha. My best drill just scuffed it slightly then went blunt:(

Tried rocking the car to try and break lose the bolt (it sounded like a winner in my head:D)
Couldn't hammer the adaptor in as its aluminium and would of given up the ghost long before biting into the bolt. (Would of stuffed me for removing the rest)

Do I just suck it up and pay a mechanic?

[ComaChameleon]

Aren't there Audi-forums in English? Forums usually have good tips

And hey! Audi is the best German car-engineering brought to market! (Ok, Volkswagen concern did in that case...)

Which one is it?

[adamtemp64]

http://www.screwfix.com/p/laser-emergency-locking-wheel-nut-remover-set-4pcs/94826?kpid=94826&cm_mmc... or similar may help

[Liquid]

Annoyingly its the macabre ones with a free spinning collar above the nut so they won't work:( thanks though Adam:)

Can't get the collar off as it appears to be stronger than any tool I own haha.

Woe is me