If you want the official spec it's 72.3 ft-lb for both the steel and alloy wheels. The value is hidden in only one location so far as I can tell: page 00-3 of the S4 service manual (Alfa's assumption was probably that the cars wouldn't last long enough for anyone to have to change a tire, so no need to have the number someplace obvious). Be sure not to forget to dial in that extra 0.3 on the wrench or you'll most likely die in a horrible, fiery crash.
In all seriousness I've always just torqued the wheels on all my cars to 75 ft-lb and retorqued after 200mi. Pretty much every car I've seen has been spec'd somewhere between 70-80, so I don't bother splitting hairs (especially given the likely inaccuracies of various torque wrenches). Interestingly the Milano bolts never move on the retorque but the Spider's sometimes do slightly. Tom ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 06 Jan 2010 12:46:18 -0500 From: Gwynne W Spencer <[email protected]> Subject: [alfa] Wheel bolt torque for '93 Spider Veloce I know that the owner manual is in my den "somewhere" - but I need to know NOW what the torque should be for the 15" aluminum "phone dial" wheels on my '93 Spider Veloce. ?? BTW - I scanned through the on CD shop manual and found torque for everything BUT the wheels ?? Gwynne Spencer ------------------------------ End of alfa-digest V10 #2181 **************************** -- to be removed from alfa, see http://www.digest.net/bin/digest-subs.cgi or email "unsubscribe alfa" to [email protected]
