Came out of work this afternoon to find a flat tyre, no problem I thought, quick job to change to the spare, just a pain to get it repaired or replaced. Loostened the nuts off, jacked it up, all nuts off and the wheel was jammed on!! No amount of shaking, pulling, bashing would help and I was getting concerned that I would pull it off the jack. Had to bite the bullet and call Skoda Assist. 30 mins later man in van arrives and using better mechanical persuassion than I could (as he has a big nylon mallet) gets the wheel off, gives the hub a wire brushing as it had seized on (fairly common problem according to him or maybe he was saving my feelings!). Quick visit to a tyre shop where screw removed and puncture repaired.

Now back home and have had all wheels off, cleaned hubs and applied copper grease to try and stop it happening again. For some reason RAC vans do not carry copper grease!

And to add insult to injury it was absolutely tipping it down when I was doing this so got thoroughly drenched to boot!

It could have been worse.

You could have been run over in the car park, and when they got you to A&E, you could have been wearing women's lingerie.

Glad it got sorted!

Can mind at work one day 2 of us spent about 3 hours smashing a wheel on a 28tonne forklift with a 16lb sledge hammer and we couldnt get this thing off so we called in the tyre fitting company and the guy took ot off in 3 swings.....although he was about my height (6ft3) and build like a bear it was still pretty embarrasing :(

I've heard of this on the drum set up on the fabia (rears) but not on discs, may be a good idea to keep a pot of copper grease in the garage

I had this on my fabia when doing wheel bearings, lower the jack and put the weight of the car on the offending wheel slowly and robert is your mothers uncle !!

Been there, done that :( Went to the Octy one morning to find to find a flat tyre. Same as you - bolts off but nothing would shift the wheel. At the time Skoda gave AA membership and they turned up with aforementioned mallet to get it sorted. At least it was on my drive and it wasn't raining. I'll be putting copper grease on the hubs when I swap over to winter wheels - don't fancy having that problem again.

Sod's law that when I took the other wheels off to add some copper grease they all came off easily. Still could have been worse, if the puncture was not repairable I'd have needed a brand new tyre.

It could have been worse.

You could have been run over in the car park, and when they got you to A&E, you could have been wearing women's lingerie.

Glad it got sorted!

ahhhhhhhh I remember when that happened to me. And the therapy :wonder:

Been there as well.

Because most garages work through the alloys rather than remove and copperslip them as they should during servicing.

A good tip a mech told me years ago, Sit on your ass at the wheel and kick the sides of tyre with the flats of your feet one side at a time. and do the top and bottom if you can. it has saved me at one point. Do you think the RAC/AA guys talk about the men they have helped to change a wheel lol.

If wheels seized onto hubs loosen all wheels nuts off and lift and lower car turning wheel each time, should after a couple of attempts come loose,

Usually just put a big bar behind them with a cloth, one end on a solid suspension unit and other on wheel and bar it off but its usually 4 foot up in air so makes life easier

Happened on my car but to my indy when he was doing the disks.

Said it was an utter pig to get them off and he blamed it on the franchised dealer who had never put any slip on the meeting faces of the alloys during the 3yr of warranty services.

A good tip a mech told me years ago, Sit on your ass at the wheel and kick the sides of tyre with the flats of your feet one side at a time. and do the top and bottom if you can. it has saved me at one point. Do you think the RAC/AA guys talk about the men they have helped to change a wheel lol.

Told a friend to do exactly the same when he rang to ask if I'd nip round and give him a hand, 5 minutes later he rang back to thank me.

See post number 5, no kicking or hitting with a hammer required.

Simply lower the jack to place some additional load on the wheel/hub (obviously don't lower the jack completely) which breaks the corrosion.

Wind the jack back up, remove wheel.

See post number 5, no kicking or hitting with a hammer required.

Simply lower the jack to place some additional load on the wheel/hub (obviously don't lower the jack completely) which breaks the corrosion.

Wind the jack back up, remove wheel.

Tried that, didn't work

Doesn't beat what our boss did for embarrassment.

Got a puncture in his Merc C Class on the way to work.

1. removed alloy wheel bolts

2. removed said punctured alloy

3. replaced with steel full size spare from boot.

4. refitted steel wheel with alloy bolts instead of the steel bolts that came with the spare.

End result was he managed to bolt the wheel to the disc coz the alloy bolts were longer than the steel ones.

Wondered why the wheel wouldn't turn.

****sed ourselves laffing for weeks after that.