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Braap
10-22-2011, 06:47 PM
Driving into my friend's driveway today, my driver's side rear tire fell off. The rim and all. It ripped the lugs, all 5 right off clean as the treads on the lug are stripped clean.

Explanation? Prevention?
Seraphinwolf
10-22-2011, 07:16 PM
:wtf: Did you find said missing lugs? Did maybe they come loose and fall off along the drive? Recently check the lug nuts or replace, switch out, or put new wheels on?
squeethebee
10-22-2011, 09:54 PM
Holy ****. If they were loose previously you probably would have heard or felt something from the back corner.

Prevention: Weld the wheels onto the hub.

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tozovr
10-22-2011, 11:34 PM
I have $14 in nickels that not all 5 lugs have nuked threads. Likely lost a few lug nuts and then the remaining lugs stripped. You're lucky.
98Wagoon
10-22-2011, 11:37 PM
so the wheel fell off, yet it didnt make any strange noises or vibrations prior? I drove about half a mile missing 2 lugs/lug nuts on my 03 and it was the scariest bit of driving Ive done in years. not knowing that the wheel was falling off sounds... tough to swallow..
boxer3maine
10-22-2011, 11:42 PM
I did that once, also unexplanable..

but the same big car bents its own engine the long way too..

could be atomic. No need to jump in fear... it loves engines that recycle exhaust.

the legacy should not have these problems.. but you are into very high miles riding low.

my back left wiggles after welding jobs on subframes. amazing mysteries.. when that is done, the cars movement reached its new destiny.

another mystery no IRS setup has ever conquered completely is concentrics even through thermal changes.. subarus reveal it too.
maine is old there..even gets trucks, my dads rig is one of them. big squishy airbags. every autumn.

anyway.. some realistic thing to do is check diff heat by hand after a good run.
Braap
10-23-2011, 12:17 AM
I was following a friend home on his fourwheeler. He lives in the middle of no-where, needless to say, speed and staying in lanes and making sure all wheels have traction around corners wasn't a thing to worry on his driveway/road, so I didn't notice anything as I didn't have a straight to feel it. I did however think my struts were going bad earlier.
98Wagoon
10-23-2011, 12:45 AM
corners are where you would feel it even more than a straight.. it would put torsional stress on the wheel and cause it to flex one way or another.
Braap
10-23-2011, 12:50 AM
corners are where you would feel it even more than a straight.. it would put torsional stress on the wheel and cause it to flex one way or another.


I didn't notice it over the usual dirt road bumps.
CoupedUpSubie
10-23-2011, 04:02 PM
Do you have 2 sets of wheels(summer and winter) and do you change them yourself and just have a shop put the tires on them. If a shop puts the wheels on for you they may tighten them and then check to make sure they are torqued. When they do this they may over-tighten them weakening the lugs. 60 degree threads do not like having too much force put on them hence the max torque of 100-110 ft-lbs. I had to replace my lugs because a couple stripped. I wasn't taking the chance of a wheel falling off.
Berge56
10-23-2011, 04:02 PM
My money is on a few lugs coming loose and taking out the others.
1055
10-23-2011, 04:28 PM
Overtightened lugnuts... this happens more often than one would think
Subyspeed
10-23-2011, 05:04 PM
do you have pictures?
[JT]
10-23-2011, 05:39 PM
i wish i could have seen that lmao
Psychoreo
10-23-2011, 05:57 PM
Driving into my friend's driveway today, my driver's side rear tire fell off. The rim and all. It ripped the lugs, all 5 right off clean as the treads on the lug are stripped clean.

Explanation? Prevention?

Pics?
yaya
10-23-2011, 07:07 PM
My money is on a few lugs coming loose and taking out the others.

This. Seen it before.
mdennett99
10-23-2011, 07:33 PM
Were the lugs torqued?

What tools were used to tighten the lugs?
BogeyBones
10-23-2011, 08:08 PM
tough to swallow..


thats what she said
Braap
10-23-2011, 08:32 PM
I never thought of taking pictures of the lugs, but I've got one with the tire off an all.

I just had body work done to around that tire area. I am guessing they took the tire off, and being a body shop only, they either didn't know they should have torqued it or just half assed did it as hard as they could by hand or something.

Its 100% fixed now.

I did however do this today after I fixed it.

http://i53.tinypic.com/284c4n.jpg