Wheel stuck on the X5

[Crowz]

Originally Posted by cn90

Yep,

In the E39 5-series forum, people use this trick all the time.
Remember to add some antiseize around the hub bore during installation.

PS: I wonder if this should be routine when doing brake jobs (or other jobs requiring the wheels removal):
- Don't jack the car up yet, loosen all 4 wheels' nuts/bolts (whatever vehicle you own), this means loosening all 20 bolts.
- Tighten them back by hand loosen them one turn.
- Now drive the car in the driveway and slam on the brake.
- Now raise the vehicles for repair, the wheels should come off.

This may seem like overkill but it prevents jacking up the car, lowering it to do this trick, and jacking it up again.

The brake slamming method didn't work at all other than making the lug bolts not lined up.

Dropping the car from 1 foot in the air did nothing at all.

Using logging chains and a porta power didn't work.

Hammering on the tires and using a dead blow on the rim for a week didn't work.

What finally got the wheel off was someone using a really big hammer and me not caring if they destroyed the rim or not.

But again this entire thread was not the normal problem everyone has all the time.

Now when it comes to the normal bmw stuck wheel bit I prefer the drop method. Its reliable and for me always works. The slamming on the brakes was iffy and definitely worse on the lug bolts than the dropping since the breaking lose on the dropping happens after the tire meets the ground and its more a pop lean over than the drop itself knocking them loose.

Ive been using the drop method for years across multiple bmw's.



But for this thread it wasn't going to working since the wheels were stuck on because the hubs were mushroomed not because of seizing issues like people normally have.