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Auto Talk => General Automotive => Topic started by: ChrisV on January 29, 2009, 09:37:53 PM

Title: ALWAYS check your lug nuts.
Post by: ChrisV on January 29, 2009, 09:37:53 PM
http://failblog.org/2009/01/26/pit-crew-fail/

wow.
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Post by: Submariner on January 29, 2009, 09:44:53 PM
Wow
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Post by: the Teuton on January 29, 2009, 09:48:34 PM
It's old, but still good.
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Post by: sandertheshark on January 29, 2009, 09:48:42 PM
"Oh, that's it; I flick the switch to the right to make the thingy turn clockwise."
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Post by: Eye of the Tiger on January 29, 2009, 09:48:53 PM
pwn3d
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Post by: SVT666 on January 29, 2009, 11:26:23 PM
oh my
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Post by: Speed_Racer on January 29, 2009, 11:51:46 PM
Great practical joke!

Oh, wait...
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Post by: Onslaught on 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.
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Post by: L. ed foote on January 30, 2009, 09:38:32 AM
BTDT...  I-81, outside of Marathon, NY
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Post by: Soup DeVille on January 30, 2009, 05:20:23 PM
I've done the same thing.


But with an engine...
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Post by: Cookie Monster on 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?
Title: Re: ALWAYS check your lug nuts.
Post by: Soup DeVille on 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.
Title: Re: ALWAYS check your lug nuts.
Post by: S204STi on January 30, 2009, 08:32:51 PM
Quote from: Soup DeVille on January 30, 2009, 05:27:40 PM
Off, more correctly. It was a Beetle.


LOL
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Post by: 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?
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Post by: Rupert on 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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Post by: S204STi on 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.
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Post by: Rupert on January 30, 2009, 09:10:34 PM
But all four at once?
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Post by: S204STi on 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.
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Post by: BimmerM3 on 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.
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Post by: AutobahnSHO on 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!
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