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We covered that bottom video extensively last summer.
The issue is not the tires, it’s the wheels, lug nuts or something in the drivetrain that fails, letting the entire wheel/tire assembly separate from the car with all the rotational inertia from spinning at highway speed.
I have had two instances in my life where lug nuts began to loosen while I was driving. I immediately sensed something was not right WAY before they came loose. Both cases involved aluminum wheels. That is why the tire stores always say to return in a few days after a tire change for a “re-torque”. Obvious new noises, vibrations or significant steering issues should be easy giveaways something is seriously wrong.
I can understand the wheel of a trailer on a big rig going unnoticed, but anything on a car or light truck will give you ample warning before a hazard occurs.
DON’T JUST TURN UP THE RADIO AND CONTINUE DRIVING!
I remember a friend telling us he lost a wheel going downhill on a large street. He was driving a VW squareback, the weight distribution was such that he just kept going on 3 wheels until he could pull to the side.
It’s really uncanny how those tires single out motorcycles and pedestrians.
I don’t think anyone in those videos was having a good year.
^^^ba dum bum tishh!
https://youtu.be/fRs0OqV4uSc?si=1Iz8udFmy16XhmDC
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The Kia Soul is WAY more robust than it looks!
Imagine being IN that Kia Soul when that happens!!
That’s a real WTF moment right there!
Jethro – 30 years ago or so, I was rotating tires on the Dodge and the mag wheels has fused to the hubs, so I put the lug nuts back on loosely and drove the car down the street rocking the steering wheel back and forth to break the wheels loose… it worked!
The poor guy at the end in the tunnel. He got nailed twice. It came and got him again.
Was an Army recruiter in the bay area in the 70’s. My partner & I were driving the Nimitz fwy in our GSA AMC Hornet one morning when a tire with axle still attached went past us. My buddy (who was driving) says “hey, look, some asshole lost a ti….)” at which time the left rear of our car sat down onto the asphalt. The asshole was us.
@Harry
The method for popping the drum off the tapered axles on old VWs was to loosen the big axle nut slightly and drive the car in reverse real slow and twist the steering wheel back and forth. When you feel the “pop” you know the drum has popped off the taper.
I thought these were outtakes from the movie Rubber.
“You picked a fine time to leave me, loose wheel…”
— Kenny Rodgers
I watched a truck that had to belong to Fred Sanford lose a wheel while driving down the beltway. The damn thing bounced over the concrete divider and directly into the front end of an oncoming pickup. Absolutely totaled it. Lamont never even slowed down, just kept on driving. It’s funny until it happens to you.
And I thought that large semi-trucks gatering large chunks of their retread tires was bad enough in hot weather.
You picked a fine time to leave me loose wheel.
The puns are great. I’ve heard errant tires have killed people before.
Sing it with me! “You pocked a fine time to leave me, loose wheel!”
Harry Eyeball
FRIDAY, 15 DECEMBER 2023, 12:08 AT 12:08 PM
“Jethro – 30 years ago or so, I was rotating tires on the Dodge and the mag wheels has fused to the hubs, so I put the lug nuts back on loosely and drove the car down the street rocking the steering wheel back and forth to break the wheels loose… it worked!”
…when I was a young car mechanic I had a patented way of separating dissimilar metals such as mags on steel brake drums. I would raise the car on a lift; remove the lugs then reset them loosely grab the torsion bar from a ’70s Plymouth Scamp that I kept for such purposes; then play BATTER UP! on the recalcitrant wheel.
This method worked pretty well for a surprisingly long time, until one day when I hooked my swing and hit the rim instead of the rubber, right on the bead. This caused it to send a crecent-shaped jagged piece of aluminum whickering like a Batarang towards my surprised and rather homely face.
But ’tis said that God protects fools, and he did so that day, so it sailed harmlessly past me to mar the paint on an adjacent Lincoln. It didn’t kill me, but I kinda wished it had because now I had to tell my manager he needed to get Loss Prevention over from the main store to document TWO cars I damaged, and to help placate justifiably angry customers whose buggies were actually made WORSE by a trip to the mechanic.
I retired the torsion bar after that. Bad as my face was, it would scarcely be improved by embedding an aluminum spike in it…
SNS – had a 77 Plymouth Volare SW – good car until a torsion bar broke at 3AM – sounded like King Kong took a hammer to the Liberty Bell!!