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If you Hammerite your wheels then do not paint where the wheel nuts grip. What happens is that the nut is torqued onto the wheel, the paint cracks hardens and falls out releasing the torque on the nut and the wheel works loose and DROPS OFF! I kid you not . This is true. Has been known to happen with Landys and also caravans.
"Thought I would change the oil in the back axle/diff this morning. Drain plug came out easily, as did the black gunge inside, wiped everything clean and screwed back the drain plug. So far so good. Moved around the vehicle to undo the filler plug, nut buggered, corners rounded, and tightened up so much I couldn't shift it. Standing there with a vehicle with no oil in back axle/diff and no way to fill it. Moral... don't remove the drain plug before you check you can undo the filler plug."