Joe Ponce > wrote:

>It may be that all other subscribers to this newsgroup may be well aware
>of the following information but I certainly wasn't.
>
>It recently became needful to remove all the wheels from my alloy
>wheeled VW vehicle. Vehicle was jacked, axle stands inserted and all
>fasteners removed. This was the point at which progress ceased! I could
>not budge any of the wheels. The solution was to "thrash" the wheels on
>their external faces with a rubber mallet in order to break the
>corrosive bond between the hub locating boss and the wheel. Corrosion
>occupies more space than metal and in this case all clearance had been
>taken up by this means. It took considerable force of hammer blows to
>release the bond and I was very glad I was not trying to achieve a wheel
>change with a puncture, in pouring rain/ snow. It would not have been
>possible to remove any of the wheels using purely muscular effort!
>
>All the wheels have now been cleaned up on the locations and a light
>smear of lubricant applied against further problems of this nature.
>
>The vehicle was five years old and it was the first time the wheels had
>been removed.
>
>Hope this may save someone from the same discovery in an emergency
>situation.
>
>Regards

If you had EVER rotated your tires, this would never have been a
issue.

I have always lubed the hubs on all my vehicles.