dedmiston
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I noticed that my city uses these on our city buses. They're little arrows on the lug nuts. At first I couldn't figure out what they were, and then I realized that the arrows all point in the same direction and make it really easy to visually see if one of the lug nuts has loosened.
I can't tell if they make these for travel trailers though. Does anyone else here use these?
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I use the same principle on my sand rail trailing arm bolts. I use a sharpie and draw a line across the bolt and nut.
I check them all the time and I can tell when the nuts start loosening up.
But no, I haven't used them on my toy hauler.
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lincster wrote:I use the same principle on my sand rail trailing arm bolts. I use a sharpie and draw a line across the bolt and nut.
I check them all the time and I can tell when the nuts start loosening up.
But no, I haven't used them on my toy hauler.
From the title of this and the other post, I thought this was going to be a list of forum members that dedmiston is calling crazy....... LOL X2 on the forum members, and one recent post points to one of the mods
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They are a great idea, should be on all RV's. Around her Purolator , UPS, and FED EX seem to use them.
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I am a recent retiree from a large city fleet, we considered the indicators, but because of the amount of them we needed and the different sized lug nuts, We did not go that route. I told them to buy some "sharpies" or yellow "paint sticks" and simply draw a line on one of the flats and onto the wheel. When changing tires or servicing anything that requires wheel removal, a quick wipe with some Brake cleaner/Carb cleaner/Acetone removes the previous "art"
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BobWanderer
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Ok, I went and looked, they come in 3/4", 13/16" and 7/8" which would fit just about any trailer.
The ones we were going to use in our fleet were different.
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Yes, see them regularly in the Puget Sound area on Transit Buses and Muni Fleets. Also, on alot of large commercial vehicles. It is a great tool for "pre-trip" inspection and more reliable than lug nut rust tails on the wheels
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You are "TIRED of looking at TIRE threads" yet you out there looking at tires/lug nuts 
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BobWanderer
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This is similar to what we used at the shop.
http://www.nissenmarkers.com/catalog/Category/Ball-Paint-Metal-Markers/3-32-in--Solid-Barrel-Metal-Markers
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