To not want to go back to the garage?

I've never heard of this either, and I've had 4 new tyres in the last year!

MOTs are worth the paper they're printed on for the day. You can drive around the corner, something goes and it would have failed the test.

You have a responsibility to ensure your cars safe to drive. Don't you check your car before doing long journeys, especially on a motorway?

You need to phone the garage and tell them however, you have done a good few hundred miles since the test.

You really ought to be making sure your own vehicle is safe on the roads. You cannot leave your car a year between tests.

I am a lawyer, so I suggest you don't make yourself look any more stupid than you already have with your ignorant mansplaining.

I’ll be honest I have never checked this myself but you can get a torquing wrench. I just nip back into the garage that fitted new wheel and say can you check the wheel nuts and they do it for free.

Not personally as DH does anything to do with the car. Though what you can actually check on the car is limited as it's an EV and a giant computer basically. Also if there is any problem with the vehicle it tells you itself in no uncertain terms.

Nope, just someone who knows what they're talking about and doesn't default to "waaaahh waah consumer rights!" over something that's a well-known and established practice based on engineering and reality.

But, you do you, and keep contributing to the stereotype that women are thick when it comes to cars, something I'm doing my best to try and prove wrong.

Are you a lawyer @Ledwood85 ?

Just how do you do this though mine have locking wheel nuts on them if that makes a difference

I’m sure in the vast majority of cases it makes no difference but obviously may have prevented an accident in this case. When I drove a commercial vehicle you checked the wheel nuts every day. You had little plastic triangles on every nut so could tell at a glance if any had moved.

I have never heard of checking after a wheel change either and my mechanic is very helpful, telling me i should be topping up oil etc so sure he would say. once when i was getting quite a bit of work done when I got car back he phoned me about an hour later telling me not to drive it! Called a few minutes later in a panic cos he couldnt remember if he tightened the wheel nuts! He had thankfully.

Behave 😂

It's not trying to absolve themselves of anything, it's literally telling drivers that as the wheel settles on the hub after the first XX miles of driving after being removed, the nuts will need to be retightened for them to be effective.

It's the laws of physics meets engineering. And it's the same for every garage worldwide, regarding every vehicle worldwide. Nothing to do with overriding consumer protection.

Contract law 😂

Do you think an MOT is a guarantee of nothing going wrong with your car? A bulb can blow as you drive away from the test centre. Don’t you ever check anything between MOTs?

This happened to us a very long time ago (25 years?) on the motorway. No one at the time said we should have checked. The garage that had serviced it repaired it for free without any quibbling.

hadn’t thought about it in a long time. There were my two toddlers in car at time. I’ve driven many thousands of motorway miles since, hopefully you’ll feel able to do same.

Well they can print any old shit they like on a receipt, it doesn't absolve them of negligence or override consumer protection law or contract law.

I had to get a tyre changed recently and it was printed at bottom of receipt.

Also I would never think to check when it had just come back from the garage and had everything checked in an MOT. What on earth do we pay them for? I would certainly contact them and if they react poorly I'd be getting in touch with trading standards and the DVSA.

All I know is that most wheel nuts these days are changed with machines not hand tools as you can never get them off if you do have to change a wheel. So I'm not sure for a lot of cars you could even check yourself. Also I don't remember this being mentioned in the Highway Code when I read it cover to cover either 30 years ago or more recently when DD1 was learning to drive.

You are supposed to check the wheel bolts a short time after the wheel being removed and put back on again. But they shouldn’t have come out, so it is pretty obvious they didn’t do them up, they probably put them finger tight and then forgot to torque them up. But most likely they won’t admit it, and say it was because you hadn’t checked them. The garage didn’t rhyme with ‘cee buyers’ did it?!

That sounds utterly terrifying @Roififfufu, thank goodness you were able to stop safely. I do think it's important to let the garage know what happened, but you could do this non-confrontationally via email if you preferred. Rather than saying "Your apprentice did a crappy job and I nearly died", just something like "I just thought it was important to let you know that X happened when I was driving and the RAC guy said the wheel nuts hadn't been tightened properly." So you're not blaming them directly (if you're uncomfortable with this), but you are making them aware that their procedures may need looking at.