Check your lug nuts!

[whitetrash]

I've been pretty one tracked lately since I found out I have my first child on the way and forgot to re torque the lugs on my truck. Well I paid for it Saturday afternoon with a wheel coming off and busting a ball joint. Still need to replace a couple studs and have an alignment done now but I'm back up and going.

So.. Don't get distracted like me and check your lug nuts!

[ELVIS]

man i did the same thing a couple of years ago. i put some lowering shakles on my super crew while i was down at my folks house in houston because my dad loves to work on stuff. well long story short on the way back to carrollton i start thinking that i dont remember tightening the lugnuts. so i pull over, move everything out of the back seat area, Jr included to get to the jack and wrench and sure enough they were all pretty much just hand tight. it scared the crap out of me. glad you came out ok too.

god bless.

[Captain Crawfish]

i see this all the time. cars on the side of the road sitting on the rotor and a 15 ft long gouge ij the roadway haha. use a damn torque wrench peoples

[SEB]

I know on Weld Rims you need to check your bolts. I have had my rear tire come off on me when I was younger in my mid 20s racing doing about 80. Lucky for me it came off & I just road on the drum to the side of the road to a stop. I was just glad it wasnt my front skinny

[whitetrash]

i see this all the time. cars on the side of the road sitting on the rotor and a 15 ft long gouge ij the roadway haha. use a damn torque wrench peoples

You are supposed to re-check aluminum wheels after a couple hundred miles. I just didn't think about it.

[GeorgeG.]

You are supposed to re-check aluminum wheels after a couple hundred miles. I just didn't think about it.

just once after a couple hundred miles or periodically every couple hundred miles? I've never re-checked mine.

[Chili]

Almost happened to me when I had the Mustang.. For a while I had an extra set of rear wheels with DR's that I used at the track only and would switch out when I got home from the track.. There was a period of a day or two where I was getting a lot of vibration and couldn't figure out why. I went to take off the wheel to look at things and the lug nuts were all loose.

Scared the crap out of me knowing what it could have caused. After that I bought a torque wrench and now check them periodically, even when I haven't had the wheels off.

[CJ]

Once you learn what a loose wheel feels/sounds like, you never forget.

[whitetrash]

just once after a couple hundred miles or periodically every couple hundred miles? I've never re-checked mine.

When I worked in a tire shop we told customers once but I think overkill here would be perfectly acceptable

[4bangen]

A few years ago I had a few lug nuts over tight. Led to a 70mph wheel-off. That will wake you up. Good news was that since the truck was lowered the tire stayed in the wheel well, and the truck wobbled to a stop.

[GE]

A few years ago, NTB had put some new tires on. I went home to wash the car, and one of the left rear lugs was loose enough that I could unscrew it with 1 finger. Good times.

[whitetrash]

Just rechecked and they were already loose. Damn

[JimD]

Lucky for me it came off & I just road on the drum to the side

Ive had that happen, found two of the four lug nuts, both cracked.

[SSMAN]

Just rotated my tires last week. Got it on my list of things to do today. Thanks. Sorry to hear about that. Sure someone did not loosen them for you?

[whitetrash]

Just rotated my tires last week. Got it on my list of things to do today. Thanks. Sorry to hear about that. Sure someone did not loosen them for you?

unlikely. they are the nuts you have to have a "key" socket for.