ALWAYS check your lug nuts.

Started by ChrisV, January 29, 2009, 09:37:53 PM

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ChrisV

January 29, 2009, 09:37:53 PM
Like a fine Detroit wine, this vehicle has aged to budgetary perfection...

Submariner

#1
January 29, 2009, 09:44:53 PM
Wow
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the Teuton

#2
January 29, 2009, 09:48:34 PM
It's old, but still good.
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#3
January 29, 2009, 09:48:42 PM
"Oh, that's it; I flick the switch to the right to make the thingy turn clockwise."

Eye of the Tiger

#4
January 29, 2009, 09:48:53 PM
pwn3d
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SVT666

#5
January 29, 2009, 11:26:23 PM
oh my

Speed_Racer

#6
January 29, 2009, 11:51:46 PM
Great practical joke!

Oh, wait...

Onslaught

#7
January 30, 2009, 04:13:53 AM
My boss in high school forgot to put the ones back on the right side of his MG before going down the road.  He made it a long way down the road before they came off. We helped him by rolling on the ground laughing.
This video kills me seeing my favorite car get fucked like that.

L. ed foote

#8
January 30, 2009, 09:38:32 AM
BTDT...  I-81, outside of Marathon, NY
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Soup DeVille

#9
January 30, 2009, 05:20:23 PM
I've done the same thing.


But with an engine...
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Cookie Monster

#10
January 30, 2009, 05:25:08 PM
Quote from: Soup DeVille on January 30, 2009, 05:20:23 PM
I've done the same thing.


But with an engine...
Did the engine fall out?
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Soup DeVille

#11
January 30, 2009, 05:27:40 PM
Quote from: thecarnut on January 30, 2009, 05:25:08 PM
Did the engine fall out?

Off, more correctly. It was a Beetle.
Maybe we need to start off small. I mean, they don't let you fuck the glumpers at Glumpees without a level 4 FuckPass, do they?

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FlatBlackCaddy

#13
January 30, 2009, 08:34:40 PM
All 4???

The guy must have been a idiot.

Did he know how to operate a wrench?

Rupert

#14
January 30, 2009, 08:37:13 PM
The lugs were loos on one of the wheels of the MG when I got it... Crazy old man wasn't strong enough to tighten them all the way.
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S204STi

#15
January 30, 2009, 08:39:01 PM
Quote from: FlatBlackCaddy on January 30, 2009, 08:34:40 PM
All 4???

The guy must have been a idiot.

Did he know how to operate a wrench?

IIRC the story is that he had just bought the wheels/tires at a tire shop and they gave him a set of lug nuts that didn't quite match up with the wheels, causing lack of good clamping force, or something like that.

Rupert

#16
January 30, 2009, 09:10:34 PM
But all four at once?
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S204STi

#17
January 31, 2009, 08:06:36 AM
Yeah I dunno.  Could be that a lack of thorough tech inspection is the problem too.  I'd imagine that if you took a torque wrench to those babies before the run it wouldn't have been a problem.

BimmerM3

#18
February 01, 2009, 01:47:59 PM
I don't know this happens. I've accidentally driven a short distance with loose lugnuts (lower the car to the ground to do the final tightening and forget), and it's pretty obvious that something is weird.

AutobahnSHO

#19
February 01, 2009, 05:05:40 PM
Quote from: BimmerM3 on February 01, 2009, 01:47:59 PM
I've accidentally driven a short distance with loose lugnuts (lower the car to the ground to do the final tightening and forget), and it's pretty obvious that something is weird.

+1
When they shipped my minivan from Germany to the US it somehow got a flat.

I'm glad the wife wasn't driving the van from the port, she wouldn't have noticed it the wobbly wheel until it fell off!
Will
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