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- 2006 Infiniti M
if you dont use the punch to notch it, it can come off.
What have you done to your P5 today?
- Thread starter Tg5
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Yeah, and I did notch it
I wonder if this has to do with the clutch throw-out bearing that was going bad and I've been too lazy to replace... lol ohshiIIRC this is the nut you take off to get to the wheel bearing. Basically his entire wheel assembly (lug nuts and all) was about to fall off.
Timing is everything.
The entire right rear wheel + hub + brake drum (I suppose) detached itself from my mom's 323 while I was driving it once back in High School! I'm guessing it was a similar axle nut situation.
I made a right hand turn and heard/felt a thunk in the back of the car, so I pulled over to the right to take a look. The wheel looked not quite right so I jacked the car up, at which point the entire wheel (including it's lugnuts, still in place) fell off!
Good thing I pulled over and didn't drive the additional block to where I'd have made a left, and probably lost the wheel into oncoming traffic!
I made a right hand turn and heard/felt a thunk in the back of the car, so I pulled over to the right to take a look. The wheel looked not quite right so I jacked the car up, at which point the entire wheel (including it's lugnuts, still in place) fell off!
Good thing I pulled over and didn't drive the additional block to where I'd have made a left, and probably lost the wheel into oncoming traffic!
I've lost a few wheels in my life...
-One day My Mom lost a wheel (loose lugnuts) on the way back from school, we couldn't get a hold of my Father because he had lost a wheel (Hub came off) on the same gravel road 7 miles away...
6 years later..
-On my way to get Milk in my '87 Monte Carlo my rear wheel (loose lug nuts) came off as I came off of a bridge. The wheel crossed the 4 lane highway twice completely missing all traffic and stopping 150 yards down the way. It only caused about $1800 to my car, no damage on anything else.
Not me, about the same time as my Monte Carlo...
-On the way to High School, I had a buddy lose a wheel and have it roll down the highway, around a corner and into the Tire Shop that forgot to tighten his lug nuts in the first place. Actually it was the same tire place that didn't tighten my lugs, no wonder it went outta business.
I'm not counting wheels on Horse trailers, or Blowouts. And like I said, Timing is everything.
-One day My Mom lost a wheel (loose lugnuts) on the way back from school, we couldn't get a hold of my Father because he had lost a wheel (Hub came off) on the same gravel road 7 miles away...
6 years later..
-On my way to get Milk in my '87 Monte Carlo my rear wheel (loose lug nuts) came off as I came off of a bridge. The wheel crossed the 4 lane highway twice completely missing all traffic and stopping 150 yards down the way. It only caused about $1800 to my car, no damage on anything else.
Not me, about the same time as my Monte Carlo...
-On the way to High School, I had a buddy lose a wheel and have it roll down the highway, around a corner and into the Tire Shop that forgot to tighten his lug nuts in the first place. Actually it was the same tire place that didn't tighten my lugs, no wonder it went outta business.
I'm not counting wheels on Horse trailers, or Blowouts. And like I said, Timing is everything.
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- 03.5 YLW MSP
What are the chances of that happening? I wounder what their reaction was to see that tire roll into their shop where they were the ones that did the work.
Also found a nice sized paint chip on the hood, ive just about given up on caring about my front bumper and hood so much anymore.haha that is ridiculous. It reminds me of the Rolex Cup race IIRC where the car loses a wheel and it does an amazing thing... lemme see if I can find the clip
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hxdpit1I6NM
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I watched that thinking ok it pretty much follows the side of the road.. big deal. then I thought ok it jumps the stacks of tires and keeps going, but to my surprise it stacked itself up on top of the other tires!
A friend of mine had his mountain bike on his Yakima roof rack on the D.C. Beltway once. He was in the left lane, doing 60-70-ish, when the front wheel of the bike flew out of the wheel holder. He pulled over 5 lanes to the right shoulder to look around and see what happened to his wheel, and see if it caused any carnage.
He hit the hazard lights, got out and walked to the back of the car in time to see the wheel roll up the shoulder and hit the back bumper of his car, then fall at his feet, undamaged!
Best guess is it slip-streamed in behind the car as he changed lanes, otherwise I have no idea how that could have happened.
He hit the hazard lights, got out and walked to the back of the car in time to see the wheel roll up the shoulder and hit the back bumper of his car, then fall at his feet, undamaged!
Best guess is it slip-streamed in behind the car as he changed lanes, otherwise I have no idea how that could have happened.
It was the only tire shop in Fort Pierre, SD so chances were pretty slim. I helped him look for it for a couple hours, he didn't find it till the next day when he went to have it worked on, and make them pay for it.
