SoCal General Chat

[sam_]

justified.

[einstein57]

so i have some style 29's that i was really wanting to throw on my car. however, due to lack of funds i can't afford a 5 lug swap so i was considering getting the 29's drilled into a 4x100 pattern...i dont go to the track or do anything crazy just daily driving with the occasional canyon run. could someone shed some light on how sketch this is and where i can get it done?

I've done it before. Very BBK friendly wheels.

[E30_Pare]

[///AaronJTun3d]

bastos naman kuya

[E30_Pare]

lolol^

[Luke Girard]

So my wheel fell off today.... One of the bolts had already snapped off so I had a shop extract it but I couldn't put a new one in. So I drove about an hour and a half on the freeway to get to Pomona and evidently another bolt broke. So the remaining three decided that they wanted to leave too so as soon as I got off the freeway and pulled up to a stop light the wheel fell off the hub. I was blocking the right hand turn lane for about 45 mins. I didn't break anything other than that one stud and stripping the threads so tomorrow I'm taking it to a shop to get the hub replaced so I don't DIE. Thank God it didn't come off on the freeway I would be e34less or DEAD right now.

[sam_]

So my wheel fell off today.... One of the bolts had already snapped off so I had a shop extract it but I couldn't put a new one in. So I drove about an hour and a half on the freeway to get to Pomona and evidently another bolt broke. So the remaining three decided that they wanted to leave too so as soon as I got off the freeway and pulled up to a stop light the wheel fell off the hub. I was blocking the right hand turn lane for about 45 mins. I didn't break anything other than that one stud and stripping the threads so tomorrow I'm taking it to a shop to get the hub replaced so I don't DIE. Thank God it didn't come off on the freeway I would be e34less or DEAD right now.

glad you're ok! same thing happened to me in the e30 and it was very hectic.

[E30_Pare]

i wish i could of seen that. Properly torque your lugs kids :D

[sam_]

i wish i could of seen that. Properly torque your lugs kids :D

mine was caused by a stripped hub thanks to the PO..two lugs unscrewed themselves and the remaining two just broke in half and off went the wheel

[mkcman17]

They must have not been torqued down...lugs don't just break or back out on their own

Well I'll rescind that...I've had an adapter bolt break before, but I question their build quality

[E30_Pare]

^this. Lugs usually snap because they're over torqued or just cheap garbage. If they backed out then they weren't torque enough.

[Luke Girard]

glad you're ok! same thing happened to me in the e30 and it was very hectic.

i wish i could of seen that. Properly torque your lugs kids :D

mine was caused by a stripped hub thanks to the PO..two lugs unscrewed themselves and the remaining two just broke in half and off went the wheel

They must have not been torqued down...lugs don't just break or back out on their own

Thankfully the wheel came off when I was at a stop. The wheel is fine and so is my car I just have to get the hub replaced. I'm so glad it didn't fall off while I was on the freeway I would probably be dead right now and you'd be watching a story about a red e34 that flipped and caused a pile up on the 210 or 57 freeway.

[Luke Girard]

^this. Lugs usually snap because they're over torqued or just cheap garbage. If they backed out then they weren't torque enough.

Two of them snapped off and then the other three backed out while going 70 plus on the freeway for an hour and a half.

[sam_]

^this. Lugs usually snap because they're over torqued or just cheap garbage. If they backed out then they weren't torque enough.

they were cheap garbage. i torqued them down all down so i just assumed it was the fact the hub was stripped and they were shit lugs...

learning shit slowly

[mkcman17]

Just sayin, I've driven on three lugs for months without them backing out. Smart cars only have three lugs.