Are these made of cheese ? Twice now I've rounded them trying to remove with a socket. Had to cut a slot in the head and use a impact driver. Hard to replace with another type as there's not much room for a tool. Anyone else have problems with these ?
I have not. I have pulled my front wheel a few times already and no troubles. ARP may make an appropriate fastener for the job.
Same here, never had any problems with them and I also took out the front wheel a number of times on both my wife's and my Terra. How hard do you torque them down? Do you use Loctite or anything else that might seize the bolts? Oxidation on the bolts?
They were torqued by the tyre shop last time. I don't use loctite for them. Might start using a bit of anti seize grease in future. I think I'll also replace them with Allen head pinch bolts instead if I find some suitable.
I had the opposite problem with mine. Found that two of my front axle pinch bolts were missing. I guess that the last person to take the wheel off had tightened them all once only and not gone back to retention the 1st bolt on each side after the 2nd had tightened.
Yup made of cheese, typical crappy BMW spec hardware. I swap wheels often. I replaced mine with stainless socket head cap crews from the local hardware store.
I noticed yesterday working on the front wheel/forks of a Terra the crappy screws are more like the crappy one's used on the KTM's, very different to what BMW normally spec so they will be a Husky crappy bolts. File them where they belong in the rubbish As for BMW crappy bolts, dont get me started but be warned and be careful with the bolts holding the disks onto the wheels front and rear they are horrible
FWIW they are a BMW part number. So yes they are crappy BMW spec hardware.....just like the ones on the discs (I unfortunately know quite well about those too )
