Bit of a silly  question does anyonr know if you can get replacement nuts for the track rod end pins,mine are very rusty but the actual joint looks good the car is a 2019 1.0 tsi nj5 model 110bhp tried dealers they want me to buy new joints and not sure about ebay joints if the nuts would fit from different makes can get the inner bigger nut but nothing about the track rod end nut they look like a top hat type and must be self locking I would think

The dealers should have those ready to sell but probably at an inflated price.

 

Try Skodaparts or LLLparts.

This to me is a bit strange as in the past I've had SERIOUS trouble removing the "TRE "pin" self locking nut on a 4 or 5 years old 2002 VW Polo, next time that I had to remove that nut was on a 6 or 7 years old 2009 SEAT Ibiza and that nut "looked like new" and came off very easily, next time was my wife's 8 or 9 years old 2015 VW Polo - and again that nut looked like new and came off very easily.  I've always just bought new nuts from VW Group outlets or ebay trader if the price looked okay and I was buying ahead. The steel used on these nuts that I have seen and/or bought over the past 17 or 18 years is never going to corrode like they used to - and thank goodness for that, so it begs the question, what sort of junk steel nuts was Skoda buying for use in their factory in 2018 ?

 

Edit:- quote from my records from last year "TRE nut VW N 909 429 02  M12 X 1.5 £5.95 for a pair"   from my local VW Van Centre in October 2024.

 

Another Edit:- humm, maybe not the best time for buying that via ebay traders, as said they are usually a stocked item at your local VW Group dealership parts dept either Skoda/VW/SEAT oe even Audi which ever is easiest to reach.

 

If the originals are really corroded a lot be prepared to need to use a hex or Torx key in the top of the pin to stop it rotating, torque should be 20Nm + 90deg, socket size 18mm. Sorry but I don't seem to have noted down what the size/type of key needed to hold the TRE pin from rotating, just make sure that you are really sure that you've got it right to avoid rounding off that hole.

 

Yet another Edit:- TRE pin insert size to stop rotation is 6mm.

Edited 18 February, 20251 yr by rum4mo

If there really rusty chances are the nuts won't come off very easy without damage. I normally end up cutting them off. A new febi track rod end complete is around £7-00 a side. Why do you need to remove them if they seem fine? 

Alasdair

If you have time and patience rutty nuts can be removed without damage.

 

The trouble with putting new parts on is the quality of new parts, having got some Febi parts I can only assume like VWs they're not as good quality now as they used to be and perhaps often they just label the part made by others, as Toch often do.