Originally Posted by
Bald Paul
I'm glad Yakima is stepping up, but I have to ask - how tightly are you turning the knob to lock the front wheel? I have two Frontloaders on my car, and it doesn't take a lot of tension to hold the front wheel securely.
First off, the new rack showed up on Friday! Very happy with Yakima service.
As to your question about the tension, clearly I am tightening too much. To add to that, I put WD40 on the bolt to “make it easier to spin the knob”. After talking to my buddy, he thinks that could have caused the issue. Not the WD40 itself per se, but often times when using that, it causes the user to tighten a lot more than necessary because you don’t get the sensation of it being tight due to the WD40, so you keep tightening causing the nut to strip. I am thinking that may have been my issue. I have since learned to not tighten as much.