Product Details
Universal Loose Wheel Nut Indicators by Wheel-Check®. Quantity: 100 Pieces. High visibility. Wheel-Check® the original leading loose wheel-nut indicator makes a visual commitment to road safety. Even with excellent in-house maintenance programs which focus on daily wheel inspections, the industry is still experiencing loose wheel nuts and wheel detachments. Frequent checking and re-torquing can actually compound the problem by stretching and weakening the wheel studs. With the introduction of Wheel-Checks®, Wheel-Check simple and effective product provides the users with the knowledge of when a wheel nut has moved by simply doing a walk around and seeing the Wheel-Check® out of sequence which shows that the nut has backed off.
Notes
- The use of Wheel-Check® in no way guarantees wheel-offs will not occur.
Features
- Provides a simple, visual means of confirming proper wheel torque in seconds
- Reduce your risk of wheel detachment accidents (Protect the public, help prevent property and load damage)
- Lower your maintenance costs by eliminating unnecessary re-torquing
- Quickly identify a hot wheel possibly caused by bearing failure or brake drag
- Decrease equipment downtime
- Facilitates official roadside inspections
- Clearly visible at night and in bad weather (rain, snow, muddy conditions)
- Easy to install
- Cost only a few dollars per wheel
- Pays for itself in just one unnecessary re-torque procedure
- Wheel-Checks are reusable
- Save time and in turn save money
Because you could lose more than a wheel! Wheel-Check® is the original, leading loose wheel-nut indicator servicing major North American transport companies for over 19 years.
Wheel-Check® and How it works
Wheel-Check® is a loose wheel nut indicator that can identify a loose wheel-nut with a simple visual inspection. When the wheel nuts are properly torqued to specs, the Wheel-Checks are then placed on the wheel nuts in a uniform pattern.
The way the Wheel-Check® system works is once a wheel nut has loosened, the Wheel-Check® will become out of sequence. It will be visible when the driver does his walkaround check and it is the driver's responsibility to call maintenance and have the wheel thoroughly serviced.
Brake or Bearing Problems
Wheel-Checks are also heat sensitive. If there is a binding brake or seized bearing, the heat is transferred through the stud and nut. If this temperature exceeds 120° C (248° F), the Wheel-Check® will start to blister around the circumference and eventually start to distort. The driver will be required to go to maintenance and have a thorough assessment on the problem wheel.
Wheel-Check® is a leading supplier of loose wheel-nut indicators to the automotive industry. For over 19 years it has provided best-in-class loose wheel-nut indicators designed to make our roads safer. The company's mission is to create a commitment to safety which means safer roads for the public, the drivers and the environment. Its products provide an easy way of a visual inspection of your wheel nuts to make sure none of them is backed off. These simple yet effective wheel-nut indicators allow for preventing truck wheel detachment that has become a huge problem causing a large number of very serious accidents, some even resulting in the unfortunate and tragic loss of life.