Now that we have had all of our winter snow here I'm changing over to my winter wheels and tyres this week.........................

Anyway as it looks like I am going to be doing this myself, does anybody know what the torque settings should be for tightening up the wheel nuts so I don't damage the alloys - I don't see it anywhere in the owners manual and never had to change a wheel myself on the last car. Is the torque the same for 19" wheels and 20" wheels? 2020 Pangea Green 1st Edition D240 New Defender 110 is here and loving it
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Thanks to James at Charles Hurst's and his Techy guys, the torque setting for the nuts on 19" wheels is 103lbs/ft 2020 Pangea Green 1st Edition D240 New Defender 110 is here and loving it
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Also in my garage is a 1996 TDi300 Defender 90 County HT made into a fake CSW

I was using my torgue wrench on the weekend when changing a few of my 20" tyres and the setting in the manual was 140nm.

I'll let you know if the wheels fall off in the next few days!! 2007 Range Rover Sport TDV8, Stornoway Grey

140Nm = 103lbft  

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Must have been looking in the wrong part of the manual............................... 2020 Pangea Green 1st Edition D240 New Defender 110 is here and loving it
2018 Melting Silver Mini Countryman PHEV - soon to be replaced
2015MY Corris Grey SDv6 HSE Dynamic, the best car I have ever owned, totally reliable only a cou0le of rattles in 3 years, now no longer in my care
Also in my garage is a 1996 TDi300 Defender 90 County HT made into a fake CSW

As shmoogle has pointed out, make sure you get your ft lbs and Nm's the right way round otherwise they'll be either too tight or more worryingly too loose!

Too tight isn't too much of a problem - too loose and you hear the wheelnuts dropping off and rolling along the road. I followed a friend who was in a Defender that he had just changed the wheels over to MTR's and hadn't done the nuts more than finger tight.............................. just managed to stop him from driving any further in time before he lost all the nuts off one wheel............................we had to walk back along a very busy road trying to collect the nuts that had gone AWOL 2020 Pangea Green 1st Edition D240 New Defender 110 is here and loving it
2018 Melting Silver Mini Countryman PHEV - soon to be replaced
2015MY Corris Grey SDv6 HSE Dynamic, the best car I have ever owned, totally reliable only a cou0le of rattles in 3 years, now no longer in my care
Also in my garage is a 1996 TDi300 Defender 90 County HT made into a fake CSW

He was lucky to find them... they must fly off even at low speeds. 

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