Journal #7877

My older brother's car eats tires. At one point he went through 3 blown tires in 2 weeks. Always on the same wheel too.

It'll buff out.

Never had a tire blow out before, though I assume the whole wheel falling off is similar just instead losing a tire my car just lost the whole wheel.

I'll admit watching the wheel bounce down the road was pretty funny after the initial shock of it all of course.

I refuse to believe this is possible without neglecting maintenance for years.

Actually, it was just brought into the shop a few weeks ago. Go figure.

I was really close to a stupid accident like this a while ago. My dad just changed a tire on the car, but he got into a conversation with somebody as he put the screws. He somehow forgot to tighten them up.
Well, hours later I took the car and went a few km with it. When coming back I could hear a strange noise coming from a tire. At one moment my steering wheel began to shake and I said it's enough to stop the car(hopefully I was almost home, after going downhill...). I called my dad, and when he came he noticed the screws were on the verge of falling off.
I think I was lucky...

Damn you wheeeeeeeel!!!!!

Whoever put your wheels on last obviously neglected to correctly fasten the lug nuts. You said you just brought it into a shop a few weeks ago. That's the most likely source of your particular predicament, although it would be pretty hard proving it to be their fault, given the amount of time that lapsed before it happened.

It also looks like you sheared off one of your lug studs in the process.

Hope you collected the wheel. In all likelihood there's nothing wrong with it, and those things are damn expensive.

Grim: Tell him to get a gat dang alignment bruh.

Wow that is impressive, i figured wit was your ball joint, but apparently that is still attached to your car, lol!

how in the hell did all the lugs twist off like that?!

It's pretty easy if they're hugely under tightened in the first place, or worse, put on backwards.

goddam sir, glad you're ok!

Awesome

Srry- I put lugnuts on backwards once when I was learning. Luckily my uncle caught it and corrected me.

It was on a full-sized motor home. That could have been very, very bad.

wow dude.
I'd definitely call the shop with complaints that's some bull crap.
My trusty 1979 craftsman torque-wrench is always readily available whenever i touch my car.