How steel was destroyed ... - Toyota Sprinter Trueno, 1.6 liter, 1999

It's been 13 months since I bought the car. Toyota did not disappoint) Typewriter 11 years old, but this year she never demanded attention. Only the replacement of consumables and periodic pampering for your own pleasure - a collective farm of all kinds of whistles and blue pisalki) From the experience of communicating with Kaldina 96, one gets the feeling that for Toyota developed in the 90s, reliability is the norm. Pfu * 3.

But judging by the weather this summer, a person has unlimited abilities when it comes to the verb "break". Truenco did not bypass this rule either.

On the way to the Urals from Moscow in July, it suddenly turned out that saving on balancing summer wheels is a bad idea. Between 100 and 120 began to hit the steering wheel. It was decided to call on okololukoilovskuyu shinomontazhku in the Nizhny Novgorod region.
For balancing 4 wheels, they asked for a horse sum of 600 re. There was nowhere to go, I decided to interpret the price tag as an indicator of quality. I entrusted the removal of the wheels to them, because I wanted to relax a bit during this time.

Discarding intermediate calculations, the result was an even stronger beating from 90 to 120, but this is still a small part of the captured grief ... As it turned out, the “golden hands” of the tire fitting masters tightened most of the nuts not on the thread using a pneumatic machine. Accordingly, at a tire fitting after 100 km, they were already unscrewed by breaking out the studs (“hub bolts” in existential terminology).

The rest of the way, and this is another 1300 km, I had to go with 3 studs on the front wheels + unbalanced wheels. There was little pleasure u003d (The speed rarely exceeded 90 km / h.

Upon arrival in the Urals, I became a regular at tire shops and auto shops - I collected studs and nuts from all over the city of Zlatoust. We didn’t even talk about the kit, now there are 5 types of nuts - with external ones for 17, 19 and 20, of different shapes. But it was also a blessing to find it. Relatively existential and prices were double.

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Further, according to the standard procedure, for many iterations, damaged studs and nuts were changed, at the same time the brake pads went in a circle for replacement. The procedure comes down to removing the wheels, disassembling the brake mechanisms, knocking out the old studs and “retracting” the new ones.

Further, removing the beat and gaining experience, I visited a tire service a dozen times.

Experience price:
1) 150 rubles / piece of studs and nuts for 2.5 tr.
2) Another 2 tr. tire service

Received skills, knowledge and life positions:
1) The skill of proper communication with tire fitters + new words in the lexicon =)
2) Knowledge of the design of hubs, brakes, etc.
3) Balancing - half the battle, the second half - geometry
By the way, here is an interesting entry on this topic from Kosolapy:
www.drive2.ru/cars/toyota...rnal/4062246863888251562/
4) Rolling disks is ineffective.
5) Studs and nuts are rather fragile knots, which is worth remembering when tackling a car. An example is the breaking of nikon's front wheel studs in the chicane at the Leader karting track.
6) At the tire shop, now I take off / put on the wheels myself, I am always present when balancing.
7) It turns out that my summer discs are Made in Russia. I never found them in the catalogs of Russian manufacturers, which is a pity. Ideally, I would replace 2 disks, I really like their design.
8) Without sucker - life is bad)