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Does anyone know of an effective way of removing alloys that have fused to the wheel hubs? My Polo seems to have suffered from this on both rear wheels. After removing all four nuts the wheel still refuses to budge. Any reliable way of getting them off without causing any damage?!
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Put the nuts back on;slacken the nuts one turn from tight and drive car round block.
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Loosen nuts to about one turn on, with car jacked clear of the ground and on well placed axle stands or chocks, I would advise against doing this whilst on a jack.
Procure a length of 100mm x 100mm x 1m softwood, douglas fir is my favourite.
Give a good clout on the inner rim/tyre area.
Rotate so that they get walloped in a north south east west sequence.
I've never tried the previously posted method but that sounds good, too.
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It may help if you spray a little WD40 around the wheel / hub spigot area. Sometimes a rubber mallet will shift them, but if the corrosion is severe, then the big hammer and lump of wood treatment is about all you are left with. Once removed, clean up the hub spigot and wheel centre, and treat to a smear of copperslip grease to stop this happening again. I usually remove wheels soon after buying any car, and do the clean up and copperslip thing. You would be surprised how quickly the corrosion can start. This also happens to steel wheels, but the "dissimilar metals" effect with alloys can be bad.
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Did exactly this (see suggestion from jc2 to loosen wheel nuts and drive the car around) and it worked like a dream. A wheel that wouldn't move despite kicking it hard in all the right places practically fell off the hub (once I'd jacked it up and removed the wheel bolts completely of course). You don't need to drive very far either. I just drove it out of the drive, did a 3-point turn and drove back into the drive. One turn on the bolts is enough.
Edited by bolderz on 09/12/2012 at 16:29
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Did exactly this (see suggestion from jc2 to loosen wheel nuts and drive the car around) and it worked like a dream. A wheel that wouldn't move despite kicking it hard in all the right places practically fell off the hub (once I'd jacked it up and removed the wheel bolts completely of course). You don't need to drive very far either. I just drove it out of the drive, did a 3-point turn and drove back into the drive. One turn on the bolts is enough.
Really? Did exactly the same (see suggestion from jc2) and it had no effect whatsoever. Reverted to kicking the wheel hub in the hope of loosening it off, which did absolutely nothing; but then it hit me: what I needed was a giant rubber mallet to thwack it with, and what is a spare tyre if not a giant rubber mallet? I grabbed it, stood with my legs wide in front of the jacked-up wheel, bent from the waist and swung the spare tyre from between my legs so the tyre tread rammed into the hub of the stuck wheel with full force. On the third swing the stuck wheel shifted on the axle, and came loose. So, forget all the complicated advice about WD40, and lengths of wood, and driving round the block, from everyone else on this thread. All you need is the spare tyre and a little brute force.
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Or a speed bump.
and some speed.
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"I grabbed it, stood with my legs wide in front of the jacked-up wheel, bent from the waist and swung the spare tyre from between my legs"
I'd be worried about keeping things out of the way ;)
And I'm not talking about my stomach, which is like a washboard ;) ;)
Edited by Chris M on 09/03/2020 at 17:57
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