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Soft wheel brace

Postby GeoffSmith » Sun 09.09.2007, 23:41

Do yourself a favour and wrap some Duck tape around your wheel brace and socket to protect the wheels. After having a couple of near misses, I did what I'd been meaning to do for a long time.

Well, what are you sat there for? Get your butt in gear and go and do it NOW!
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Postby Elanlover » Tue 11.09.2007, 21:18

But please, choose a more manly color than Geoff did. :wink:
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Postby Dave Eds » Tue 11.09.2007, 21:30

he's even got pink center ( :!: ) caps :oops:
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Postby Doug » Tue 11.09.2007, 21:44

Geoff, why not put on your coke-bottle glasses before you stick it in the hole?! :-D
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Postby Rambo » Wed 12.09.2007, 07:56

Dave Eds wrote:he's even got pink center ( :!: ) caps :oops:


Hopefully that's just a reflection of the pink duck tape with the camera flash going off ??

Getting a bit cack handed now you've turned 50 Geoff ?? :lol:

PS Actually it's one of his better ideas
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Re: Soft wheel brace

Postby Coupeboy » Mon 08.12.2008, 14:00

If anyone's interested the standard wheel brace is also sold by Ford (£5) from a Fiesta/Focus and fits a treat - both to the wheel nuts and the retainer in the boot. My original had been chocolotafied by some ape. :roll:
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Re: Soft wheel brace

Postby Sy V » Tue 09.12.2008, 09:00

Coupeboy

You'll have a 19mm brace for your SE.
Geoff's is an S2 and will be 17mm, so your statement only pertains to SEs.
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Re: Soft wheel brace

Postby Coupeboy » Wed 10.12.2008, 13:35

Good point - although there are only 800 S2s and about 3800 S1s so I must have been around 82% helpful!
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