why you should check your wheels

[Boza]

don't know if its a re-post but this is from another forum

http://forums.bimmerforums.com/forum...d.php?t=992964

[LUXO_8]

hollleyyyyyy craaaaap!...
guy should thank his lucky stars he isnt dead

[Kryton]

wow!
thats some serious stuff right there.
if that was a right hand drive car - he would be dead!
(he's lucky he isnt already).

[KBBossedXR]

Originally Posted by davway

wow!
thats some serious stuff right there.
if that was a right hand drive car - he would be dead!
(he's lucky he isnt already).

That was the first thing that came to my mind, imagine if it was right hand drive or he had a passenger.

Remember Lowndes at Bathurst the other year when the tyre landed on his Falcon that was a scary moment just watching, i couldnt imagine what this poor guy was thinking.

I seen a 9" when it was being transferred from 1 Falcon to another and when the 31 spline Moser Billet Axels come out to my amazement the wheel studs instead of being new bigger ones to match the billet axels the standard studs had been kept and had been modified by welding & grinding to make them fit. The Falcon was running 11.5 @ 120mph with these home made studs and the price of a set of new studs compared to the money spent on the whole diff, its was probably only a matter of time before they let go.

[Boza]

yeah i can't beleive he walkd away alive.

[GK]

That's some scary stuff indeed!

Thank God it didn't kill him.

GK

[Yaw]

Wow....I wonder though if it would have been that bad if the car did not have a sunroof. I imagine that the roof would have held up better.
Food for thought before looking at putting in a sunroof i guess.

[gcg2503]

That is one lucky escape! Or unlucky to be hit (whichever tickles your fancy)

[MITCHAY]

Lucky to get out of that! Shame it was a pretty nice car too :(

[Boza]

here's more food for thought imagine hewas in a convertible

[Kryton]

Originally Posted by bbqjet

here's more food for thought imagine hewas in a convertible

it would have kept going through to the car behind.

[Scruba]

I always check my wheel nuts after service.
Both my rears were loose after a service. Didn't find out for 3 days later when I heard a scrapping noise at low speed.
In the mean time I had to rush my wife to hospital in an emergency so had the nuts come off we would have both ended up in hospital or the morgue.

Just can't trust the mechanics to tighten and torque those nuts. (no offense to the guys that do the right thing)

CHECK EM PEOPLE.

[Dezza]

Originally Posted by Scruba

Just can't trust the mechanics to tighten and torque those nuts. (no offense to the guys that do the right thing)

CHECK EM PEOPLE.

I totally agree. I do NOW, ever since I had a wheel fall off after having a wheel alignment done. My wheel just gently crossed the road, and ended up on the grass beside the road, and the EA hardly copped any damage either, so it was fairly lucky.

I can't believe how destroyed that BMW is though! That bloke was very lucky to walk away from that!

[Hunter]

Originally Posted by Scruba

Just can't trust the mechanics to tighten and torque those nuts. (no offense to the guys that do the right thing)

Can't trust most mechanics to do anything really...

I check my wheel nuts every so often but how many 'average' motorists bother to keep an eye on their wheel bearings?

[nb_351]

Originally Posted by Hunter

Can't trust most mechanics to do anything really...

I check my wheel nuts every so often but how many 'average' motorists bother to keep an eye on their wheel bearings?

most of them dont keep an eye on anything at all, let alone something like bearings...
hope ive never caused anything like that in my time lol

[Sourbastard]

head on with a 20" wire wheel...... gang banger must have run out of bullets.

[Bad Bird]

I wonder if it was caused due to the wheel studs shearing off. Stupid huge wheels with enormous moments of inertia...

[paule11]

I drove my car out of my driveway and it felt like the engine was going to fall out stopped it all the wheel nuts loose on the left front but the stud with the locknut had snapped off as I went down the driveway . Someone had tried to steal my wheel lucky the stud snapped off in the driveway and not the motorway or else someone could end up dead

[Rodp]

Ouch. That made a mess.

[3vXT]

That guy is wheely wheely lucky.

[yabby6]

amazing how in so many car accidents the cars are such a mess and so close to killing occupants but they come away basically unscathed.

[AUXRVIII]

This F150 rolled in while I was at a dealer in the U.S. A wheel came off an SUV coming in the other direction on the freeway, luckily he was uninjured.

[vanman_75]

we get little sticker on windscreen to check before you leave premises ,ok for me but my missus couldnt tighten or check em right so its pot luck they do the right thing i guess. and that would scare c r a p outta ya wouldnt it .

[BionicGT]

Hmmm - Must be why Ford doesn't have a factory option for a sunroof on the new FGs ...........Does ANCAP do a "flying wheel" test?

[Sonik]

How do you check bearings?
And I read all 18 pages in that thread lol. For anyone that couldn't be bothered, hes fine, scratched up arm, no shoulder breakages, car will be sold for parts and hes discussing some sort of compensation with his lawyer, probably in the form of sueing the company, btw those are the single bolt wheels, much like V8 super cars.

[nb_351]

which is why theyre not allowed on our roads...

[Bad Bird]

It's funny due to the irony being that many Americans I know consider our requirement of getting cars engineered to be "Communist".

More like "Sensible".

[Bob Yellow]

bloody hell copped it good. i wonder how often this event does occur?