2019 SE Citigo,noticed brake calipers showing some rusting. Decided I would paint them with heat resistant paint.

 

After taking off wheel bolts ,found the wheel to be seized on the hub.Pulled and pushed for a bit,car was on jack and also axle stand. 

This is one for the dealers,but what happens on the roadside.Some call out guy sledging your wheel and tyre???

With bolts not fully undone, lower the jack slowly until the wheel touches the ground and dislodges from the hub, then jack back up and remove wheel.

17 minutes ago, pist0nbr0ke said:

With bolts not fully undone, lower the jack slowly until the wheel touches the ground and dislodges from the hub, then jack back up and remove wheel.

Will give it a try.   On line vids show people bashing the wheel/tyre with lumps of wood, block hammers etc.Can't be good for the tyre wall or wheel rim.

Alloys soon mash up......

Reassemble using a very thin layer of copper grease, spread on the mating surface, is what I'd probably do.

You've likely figured this out by now. But it will come off. Sit on the ground, lean back a little, and kick the side walls of the  tyre with the flats of your feet at the 3 and 9 o'clock position. You have to be pretty brutal with it. You can't break it; it's designed to cope with much higher forces and impacts on-road in daily use. It'll work free after you've beat it up a bit.

i had to sit on the side of a motorway one day and kick the **** out of the wheel on my insignia after a puncture. its the galvanic reaction btween the alloy and the hub/brake disc causes it. 

 

my tyre guy says its constant with them.

Couldn't be bothered with the dealers. Used some penetrating spray with long nozzle.Keeping off brake disc surfaces -sprayed the hub /wheel contact joint.Left it for two days.Raised the car ,wheel was loose on hub.

Then used copperslip on loose wheel and hub mating surfaces,so should help in future......

Edited 30 June, 20205 yr by Blackcountryman