Maybe want to tighten your nuts.....

[ariddell]

http://break.com/index/when-drifting-goes-bad.html


Oops.

[Kenneth]

/haz

they must have been pretty damn loose to all fall off like that!

[g8legnum]

Reminds me of a time in my younger days when I had a Mini and during a lunchtime pub visit with my mates, someone tried to nick my alloys. Luckily I had security bolts so the thieving didn't happen, but they did loosen the other bolts to the point that on a main road, the nearside front wheel decided to part company - breaking all the wheel studs in the process, then go bounding across the pavement, over a low wall and into a petrol station forecourt we happened to be alongside. It continued across the forecourt and was bought to a halt by impacting the fuel tank of a petrol tanker lorry that was delivering at the time. Meanwhile my Mini came to a grinding halt on its three remaining wheels. /Grrr /Grrr /Grrr
Got going again by 'borrowing' one stud from each of the remaining wheels as a 'get me home' repair ........ :scholar:

[vr4moose]

Reminds me of a time in my younger days when I had a Mini and during a lunchtime pub visit with my mates, someone tried to nick my alloys. Luckily I had security bolts so the thieving didn't happen, but they did loosen the other bolts to the point that on a main road, the nearside front wheel decided to part company - breaking all the wheel studs in the process, then go bounding across the pavement, over a low wall and into a petrol station forecourt we happened to be alongside. It continued across the forecourt and was bought to a halt by impacting the fuel tank of a petrol tanker lorry that was delivering at the time. Meanwhile my Mini came to a grinding halt on its three remaining wheels. /Grrr /Grrr /Grrr
Got going again by 'borrowing' one stud from each of the remaining wheels as a 'get me home' repair ........ :scholar: omg.
once hada escort that lost front wheel when i jacked it up. after getting home
my lesson on wheel spacers...

[ANTHONY]

years ago i was a London bus driver and the engineers forgot to tighten the nuts it was quite funny seeing the front wheel running down the road and the bus stayed level.

[Pete M]

A few years ago, my son, aged about 24, decided to replace the bottom clamp bolts on his Mazda's front struts with shiny new ones. Unfortunately he chose ones that were fully threaded and then didn't tighten them up enough. On his way to my house he did some vigorous cornering. The bottom ball joint fell out of the strut, the front of the car was on the ground and the wheel was sticking out the side. The poor guy was almost in tears. Anyway, I took my jack round and we just popped the ball joint back in the strut, so he could drive it very carefully round to my house. The bolts were replaced by the correct ones with only partial thread, as the bolt locked the ball joint in place by locating in a groove in the shaft. The fully threaded bolt was just a litle smaller in diameter....