Almost pulled a DanGillan today

[Jand3rson]

Indeed. I plan to take much more care when tightening down wheel bolts from now on. I got lucky!

[Be30mer]

Indeed. I plan to take much more care when tightening down wheel bolts from now on. I got lucky!

Definitely. I kept thinking what would have happened had the wheel come off while I was driving at 60+mph. Would not be pretty

[Asbradley21]

I've had it happen to me on the interstate, one lug finally snapped and I almost swerved into a tractor trailer.

[Rennsport]

I always use a torque wrench on my wheels. I had a wheel come loose on my old bronzit back when I was 16, never again!

[Raxe]

I've never had a lug bolt come loose. Didn't realize this was so common. :?

[MR 325]

Listen guys. I've changed COUNTLESS sets of wheels on my personal cars let alone customer cars. NEVER have I used a torque wrench. NEVER have I had a wheel come loose.

I'm just sayin...

[ak-]

I have this fear every time I had to mount and dismount my wheel for what ever reason.
Although I do stomp on the wrench with my foot in a downward force when I cant tighten it with my hands anymore.

[ak-]

I have this fear every time I had to mount and dismount my wheel for what ever reason.
Although I do stomp on the wrench with my foot in a downward force when I cant tighten it with my hands anymore.

[E30 Wagen]

when i started working at a tire shop it was a big fear of mine to have a wheel fly off after putting it back on. But after using an impact and getting into a rhythm you stop fretting over it, and I never once had an issue. Same goes for my cars using the supplied lug wrench...

Glad to hear you avoided an accident.

[vlad]

what happened to DanGillan?
PS glad u r ok !

[RainierHooker]

Thank god you are ok. This wasn't by chance at the Chevron up by Gov't Camp was it?
Me and my friends bought them out of all thier beer a few years ago...

[Jand3rson]

Yep, that was the Chevron I stopped at.

[freeski27]

this happened to my on my 1998 volvo S70, (the sedan version of Janderson's car)... After changing rotors and pads I was rushing to clean up. Tightened all bolts to snug with a socket wrench, and then torqued them all to spec. Apparently I forgot to torque the front left (still don't know, but I thought I did). I was driving around a turn the next day (picking up parts for the e30 :D) and it sounded like a REALLY bad wheel bearing. Pulled over and all but one lug of the front left wheel were loose...

That'll teach you to double check.

[Mike325]

Something like this happened to me too. I hit a large bump and maybe 30 miles later, my car started to make weird noises and I felt some front end vibration. Pulled over and checked my lugs to make sure it was not them, and sure enough, a few were loose. I guess the bump made them some loose, but not sure why that would do it.

[Jand3rson]

The really scary part is right before it started to vibrate, I was passing cars going around the uphill part of a mountain pass in the rain at like 60-70 (in the passing lane, of course).