Check those lug nuts, see video Options

[URY914]

http://www.teamjamoto.com/dixeregionpage.htm

This is why there are tech inspections. Maybe he was too busy puttin' on those race shoes.....

[jhadler]

Yeah, I saw that a couple days ago.

If it wasn't so tragic (poor car), it'd be hysterical. Really, it looks like it was deliberately staged for the camera. All four wheels at once????

-Josh2

[byndbad914]

Yeah, I saw that a couple days ago.

If it wasn't so tragic (poor car), it'd be hysterical. Really, it looks like it was deliberately staged for the camera. All four wheels at once????

-Josh2

I have to agree here from somewhat of a personal experience with my first car. In this case, the driver hardly covered any real distance to allow the lugs to back off. On the left rear you can see the studs are sheared off, but the other wheels still had studs, implying the fasteners had to fully back off, on the other three wheels, within a few seconds of running.

When I was 16 I bought some used Crager S/S wheels ( (IMG:style_emoticons/default/aktion035.gif) ) for my Mustang. I used a standard mag wheel lug nut with a standard washer - but my wheels were "universal" wheels that had slots so they would fit either Ford, Chevy or Chrysler bolt diameters, and that setup required special offset washers that were eccentric in nature.

So, I puts my wheels on with the wrong washers and heads to skool the next day which was around 5 miles away, and my typical driving style at that time in podunk Iowuh was to run about 100-110mph the whole way (car would top out at 118, and this day was no exception). Everything was fine. I think it was a couple days later in fact (tho' exact timeframe is shady in memory) that I arrived at school after my typical commute velocity and pulled in and the car was shaking rather violently so I quickly parked. All four wheels were in fact missing lug nuts and three of the four were completely loose and held on by maybe one or two nuts that hadn't completely fallen off! But even that took 2 or 3 days of driving and typically at around 100 if it was in the AM.

Even with the right washers those mags would have to be torqued after installation, driven a couple days and completely retorqued to seat and stay. To this day I always check torque on wheels a couple days later and then a couple days later again if they were removed.