Nope, the metal isnt strong enough.
They don't have the same very small bits that a pozidriv screw head has.
Nope, the metal isnt strong enough.
They don't have the same very small bits that a pozidriv screw head has.
In message , jack writes
You can get solid brass pozidrive screws
Show me where. I looked on Ebay and they weren't there.
Feeding "Brass pozi drive screws solid" to google gave me lots of hits. For example:
9,11,13, 16 and 18mm spanner sizes are all fairly uncommon on cars.
First random ebay link:
B&Q!
Ah, I typed pz2 which usually gives me the screws I want.
You said "solid" - are most "brass" screws not solid brass?
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Even the bloody wheel nuts weren't standard on my Peugeot. I thought all cars used 17mm?
No, as evidenced by spiders with all sides of sockets at each end.
These don't cost a lot:
Mine are 19mm.
Most are 19mm.
Mine have all been too. The Peugeot will be 19mm as well. Usefully it's also 3/4".
I'll assume that 13 is a typo :-)
I guess that depends on the manufacturer. Many bolts on cars I have had have been 13mm. Strangely the Japanese etc seem to prefer 12mm ans their de facto size!
13mm is standard M8, so it's likely to be quite common.
My recollection of the standard being 17 may be incorrect. But every one of the approx 10-15 cars I've ever had (except that Peugeot) used the same wheelnuts (I know because that's the bit I always wear out / lose / replace in my socket set). When I mentioned this to a colleague, he said he'd had the same problem (and I'm sure his was also a Peugeot), and he handed me a spider he didn't use anymore (although it only had 4 legs not your 6).
Anyway, since having a Golf where the wheelnuts continually tightened themselves while driving, I now have a very long extendable knuckle breaker bar and a 17 (or whatever it is) bit from my socket set to undo nuts. It required me to jump up and down on the bar to loosen a nut, even though I didn't use much force at all to previously tighten it. This was the complete opposite to my Espace which continually loosened the nuts. No matter how tight I made them, one of the wheels would begin to wobble after a month if I didn't continually check them.
When you say 13mm, are you talking bolt or spanner size? A 13mm thread is actually rather large for most things on a car.
Spanner, same as the rest of the thread.
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