[Shop-talk] Lug Bolts?: hanger tool

[Jack Brooks]

The weirdest tool I've ever seen for wheel removal is one required for our
Volvo XC90.  It is a small, almost tweezers like tool in the glove box.  It
lets you take the cheap, plastic covers off the lug bolt tops, revealing the
galvanized bolt that you can put a wrench on.  

It's embarrassing to see something like this on a $40k+ vehicle.  Volvo now
makes the bolts in either SS or chrome plate, I can't recall which, but I
have not yet looked into where to buy them, at less than the exorbitant
stealership prices.  

Jack

-----Original Message-----
From: shop-talk-bounces+jibjib=att.net at autox.team.net
[mailto:shop-talk-bounces+jibjib=att.net at autox.team.net] On Behalf Of Paul
Mele
Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2007 12:04 PM
To: 'Paul Parkanzky'; 'Shop-Talk List'
Subject: Re: [Shop-talk] Lug Bolts?: hanger tool

<<My Audis have come with a hanger to put in the top hole to hang the wheel
on while you change it, but I never use it>>

my BMW's have all had the tool in the trunk lid tool kit.  At an annual
trivia contest, however, only a very few people knew what the tool was used
for.  
With or without the tool, it didn't take long to learn how to put the wheels
of my cars on easily.

BMW's with tool that I've owned:
72, 73, 74 Bavaria
78 530
85 535
86 528e
87 735
89 325i, e
91 318i (I think)

I don't know if BMW cut back on supplying this tool in later years or
models...
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