I removed a rear wheel to check out the rotors and pads although I didn't remove anything else just a visual inspection.

 

So I put wheel back on and removed jacks etc and start car and I attempt to reverse and I get a very heavy resistance / sticking from wheel. I just apply very little pedal to accelerator I didn't even move car but it's obvious there is some serious resistance.

 

I don't want to force it incase something breaks up.

 

What is likely happening, can you over tighten the wheel nuts or does the security nut need to be in a specific hole. Basically I've not put the wheel back on correctly I think?

 

Any ideas?

Schoolboy error. Forgot to remove wheel chocks I'd set on the other wheel. 😂

Edited 4 August, 20205 yr by Aj77

Excellent!

 

Thanks for sharing

Many of us will have done something similar or worse, fair play for owning up. 👍

Quite a silly mistake. We might have laughed if we hadn't done something similar before

 

3 hours ago, Jevpls said:

Quite a silly mistake. We might have laughed if we hadn't done something similar before

 

 

Having no short term memory and being blind to the left side  I do it pretty much everytime I work on one of my cars (sloping drive) the first time my reaction was just like the OP's, now I know immediately whats up.

Edited 5 August, 20205 yr by J.R.

On 04/08/2020 at 15:27, Aj77 said:

Schoolboy error. Forgot to remove wheel chocks I'd set on the other wheel. 😂

When I read the first post I was going to suggest that as a joke - albeit a logical thing that sprang to mind.

I came close to topping this just now. 

Aimed to change a set of steel wheels with legal tyres onto a friend's Golf with neither, only to be thwarted by not having thought about conical- vs radius-seated bolts. Rapidly realised that the first conical-seat bolt to come out meant mission abort.

 

Broke the bad news to friend then cleared away tools and wheels, agreeing to try to source a cheap set of suitable bolts and revisit then. 

 

Most of an hour passed before I remembered to go back and unchock the back wheels...