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Posted: **Sun Apr 12, 2015 8:35 pm**

MLW wrote:Take it to a Kwikfit type place. These boys do rounded of fsump nuts as a matter of course. Once up on a ramp, they can have a real go at it. Get a new one first, and get them to get it off and just nip it up. Drive home and then do the oil change.
I have been there, and a £5 drink is well worth it.

Letting quick fit type muppets near your car is a recipe for total disaster , would not trust them to oil my bike chain

Posted: **Mon Apr 13, 2015 8:50 am**

julianm wrote:Willing to be corrected but I`ve an idea that one of the drain plug problems is that the hex is imperial - inches - due to the threads being `plumbing / pipework` related ie BSP or the American equivalent. So a 13mm socket is a bit loose on what is a 1/2 " hex - so it rounds off a little each time - or is this just plain wrong?

Yep. 1/2 fits perfectly

Posted: **Mon Apr 13, 2015 9:29 am**

jasovanooo wrote:
julianm wrote:Willing to be corrected but I`ve an idea that one of the drain plug problems is that the hex is imperial - inches - due to the threads being `plumbing / pipework` related ie BSP or the American equivalent. So a 13mm socket is a bit loose on what is a 1/2 " hex - so it rounds off a little each time - or is this just plain wrong?

Yep. 1/2 fits perfectly

Seems a bit strange use a BSP thread if they think that's the best thing to do but surely make the hex metric to avoid this sort of things how many mechanics these days would have 1/2 AF socket in their tool box , I have but work on commercial aircraft which are still all imperial

Posted: **Mon Apr 13, 2015 10:51 am**

i only know as the halfords sets come with both... 13 isnt a very good fit

Posted: **Mon Apr 13, 2015 8:27 pm**

Renault amazingly enough did the same thing on the old Clio ..

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