A brand new video of the failure of the Lamborghini Aventador’s wheel nut has surfaced on-line. The centre-lock of the Lamborghini needed to be eliminated utilizing damaging strategies, damaging the wheel in flip.

As per the video, the automobile is inside what seems to be a storage. The mechanics first try to launch the locking nut with an extended wrench for leverage, nevertheless it fails. Then, one of many employees is available in with a grinder and proceeds to chop the alloy wheel spokes. In the direction of the top of the video, we will see the broken wheel and the offending centre-lock which needed to be minimize out of the automobile.

We’re not but certain of the explanation for the failure of the identical, however this might lead to a major price if all wheels must be eliminated on this method.

Again in 2018, Lamborghini had recalled 8 items of the Aventador as a result of wheel lock probably changing into unfastened in sure conditions. The issue was proactively mounted by the Italian carmaker. This failure didn’t result in any accidents or stories of crashes.

Advantages of centre-lock nuts

The centre-lock wheels have just one hex nut holding the wheel to the hub. Conventionally, there are 4,5 or extra nuts which maintain the wheel to the hub. Therefore, a excessive torque should be utilized to tighten the only real nut. This requires a really lengthy dealt with wrench or a excessive impression wrench to tighten or loosen the nut. Racing automobiles often use this expertise. In the course of the race, the removing of 1 nut is quicker than a number of when altering the wheels (tyres) through the race.