Seized Wheel Stud on VR6

[Golf Loon]

OK Guys this happenned to us at work today and we spent hours trying to get the bolt out.

How do you reckon we did it?

I have some good pics of the process if you have some good guesses, I`ll post em up.

[Pullstarter]

hmmm, easy out?

[h100vw]

I have knocked impact sockets onto locking wheel bolts to get them out. I once had a short mate of mine shear off a bolt on his Passat doing it up.

I have some sockets best described as external easyouts for getting lockers off with.

So was it just tight or rounded off?

Gavin

[cOS]

lube the bolt?

[The_Hawk]

paddle pop sticks dipped in carbonite then coated in some sort of glowing kryptonite based paint?

[Tim]

u got chuck norris to look at it and it backed its self out?

[Golf Loon]

This one was in really tight and rounded off by some monkey with a rattle gun the last time tyres were purchased.

We tried smacking sockets on there.

Drilling a hole in the centre broke 3 drill bits, a drill and ended with a snapped thread extractor tool in there!

Then we welded a bar to it and that didn`t work either.

I was all set to take out the strut and hub and have a hack from the back

Then Shannon had a better idea........

[gpk_gti]

your best mate john howard told you he was coming past to help you with it,and because he never showed up as peter costello knows his promises dont mean **** ,the bolt eventually rusted away!!!!!

ok,I know I won,,,what do I get???

[Lorenz]

You replaced the whole car with another 'cos u gave up and have plenty spare lying around anyway????

[Golf Loon]

9 Inch Grinder vs Vr6 wheel

Then we cut the remnant in half along the bolt and smasked it off with a hammer.

The bolt then unscrewed by hand!!

You should have seen the guys face at the tyre place