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underthetire
post Dec 8 2010, 03:35 PM
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post Dec 8 2010, 03:50 PM
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Holy Crap!

Looks like he just changed the tires and used all the wrong lug nuts... oops!!!
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post Dec 8 2010, 03:53 PM
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(IMG:style_emoticons/default/blink.gif) Is there no safety inspection?
I could understand one coming off but ALL four??? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/WTF.gif)
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post Dec 8 2010, 04:00 PM
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post Dec 8 2010, 04:01 PM
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QUOTE(poorsche914 @ Dec 8 2010, 01:53 PM) *

(IMG:style_emoticons/default/blink.gif) Is there no safety inspection?
I could understand one coming off but ALL four??? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/WTF.gif)


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Invest in a torque wrench buddy.

Although, I am guilty of a similar failure. I had a great track weekend in Louisiana years ago. Trailered the Boxster home with the track tires still on. When I got home, I swapped on the street wheels/tires. next morning, set out across the Ponchartrain Causeway. about two miles along my way across the 26 mile span, terrible vibration started up. before I could get speed down and get to one of the cross overs, both drivers side wheels came off. I slid to a stop, chased my front wheel across traffic and called for a wrecker, while sitting there cursing my stupidity.
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post Dec 8 2010, 04:05 PM
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That was painful to watch (IMG:style_emoticons/default/beerchug.gif)

Al I can say is (IMG:style_emoticons/default/WTF.gif)
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post Dec 8 2010, 04:09 PM
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This video is already on the site in the Paddock section.

:I agree:

Must have swapped to track wheels and forgot to torque after putting lugs on finger tight.
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post Dec 8 2010, 04:12 PM
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QUOTE(ConeDodger @ Dec 8 2010, 02:09 PM) *

This video is already on the site in the Paddock section.

:I agree:

Must have swapped to track wheels and forgot to torque after putting lugs on finger tight.


But who goes to the paddock section (IMG:style_emoticons/default/KMA.gif)

Sorry, didn't know it was there. My bad.
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post Dec 8 2010, 04:17 PM
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Ouch. Good thing I've never done anything in a hurry and... stupid (IMG:style_emoticons/default/headbang.gif)

How many have had their lug nut torques checked at tech at an AX or a DE? Not me. It's not a bad idea but wow, what an unusual thing.

That wasn't a torque problem anyway. I'm betting he got excited, put the track tires on and snugged 'em while in the air. Then he forgot to finish when they were on the ground... or his "crew" did. Same thing happens when folks forget to put in (or tighten) the oil drain plug. Ooooops. Not enough practice.
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post Dec 8 2010, 04:17 PM
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Painful! And funny when over the shock. Looks like it should be in a Pink Panther movie
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post Dec 8 2010, 04:22 PM
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post Dec 8 2010, 04:25 PM
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QUOTE(pcar916 @ Dec 8 2010, 05:17 PM) *

Ouch. Good thing I've never done anything in a hurry and... stupid (IMG:style_emoticons/default/headbang.gif)

How many have had their lug nut torques checked at tech at an AX or a DE? Not me. It's not a bad idea but wow, what an unusual thing.

That wasn't a torque problem anyway. I'm betting he got excited, put the track tires on and snugged 'em while in the air. Then he forgot to finish when they were on the ground... or his "crew" did. Same thing happens when folks forget to put in (or tighten) the oil drain plug. Ooooops. Not enough practice.

At our autox every car get torqued by the tech guys.
We all know people do things for a reason....so our region may have had a wheel fall off long before I ever started autox...so they are pretty fussy about it.

I always tell my kids to not trust the impact gun and always hand torque after the car is on the ground...
So, one kid lost a wheel on the road...he now tightens them by hand, wont even use the gun.

Me, pops, I broke that exact rule that I consider sacred...drove down the street and had to turn around and come right back...every lugbolt was loose after I just put my race tires on....and I was late.

I felt like an ass...I always tell them to do it by hand at the end...and I always (except once) use a wrench, by hand after I set the car down.

I am at a point now that I take more time and I put the bolt in by hand...might as well be damn sure.

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post Dec 8 2010, 04:34 PM
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QUOTE(r_towle @ Dec 8 2010, 02:25 PM) *

... I put the bolt in by hand...might as well be damn sure.
RIch


Glad to see your techs doin' what they're supposed to. My kids know how to use the torque wrench on their own cars... and they'll be watching this video! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/piratenanner.gif)
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post Dec 8 2010, 04:35 PM
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His shoes match the car, so I'm guessing his purse matches too. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)
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post Dec 8 2010, 04:36 PM
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he really did "drive the wheels off it", didn't he
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post Dec 8 2010, 04:45 PM
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No way the wheels would fall off that fast even if only finger tight. I think this guy pissed off some one big time and they 'helped' him out by loosening the nuts until they were about to fall off.
A long time ago I forgot to torque the lugs on a car and we made it about 2 miles or so when bad stuff started to happen. Huge vibration, lugs hitting the fender wells, got it pulled over found most of the nuts and put everything back together on the side of the road. One wheel had only one lug barely hanging on.
Yes, I do my own tire rotations on all my vehicles even when I can go to the tire place and have them do it for free.
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post Dec 8 2010, 04:51 PM
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According to the description, he had the wrong size lug nuts on with the same pitch. They were supposedly torqued correctly but once the car got a few G's they popped right off. Either way, looks real with fender damage and all.
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post Dec 8 2010, 04:56 PM
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I also wonder if this was staged somehow. I started to lose a wheel after swapping from snows to summer tires. But I had to drive 120 miles before I started having vibrations and pulled over before it ever became a crisis. Fixed it and the only hard were a grease smudge and I was a little late for work.

Still not sure how I missed that wheel. All the others were torqued to spec except my right rear. Guess I just missed it somehow.

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post Dec 8 2010, 04:56 PM
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This video has been discussed ad nauseum before and it came out that there was incorrect stud length for the wheels. You could probably get farther with no lug nuts if you had long studs.
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post Dec 8 2010, 04:57 PM
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QUOTE(underthetire @ Dec 8 2010, 02:12 PM) *

QUOTE(ConeDodger @ Dec 8 2010, 02:09 PM) *

This video is already on the site in the Paddock section.

:I agree:

Must have swapped to track wheels and forgot to torque after putting lugs on finger tight.


But who goes to the paddock section (IMG:style_emoticons/default/KMA.gif)

Sorry, didn't know it was there. My bad.


Hey! Guys with screen names like 'Conedodger' go there a lot! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/lol-2.gif)
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