How many of us have done it.....

[GavinJ]

Went out last night with a car full of passengers all was going well until i started hearing a knocking, so i started thinking about what it could and suddenly realised i had took a wheel off earlier to check the caliper and hadn't tightened the wheelbolts after putting teh wheels back on

So i pulled over tightened them up and off i went i again, mates then took the curse word all night ;D

Only the second time i've done it now

[v8ade]

i did it once but it was all four wheels had to stop in the main high street of my local town on a saturday to tighten them up that was embarassing

[Pillock]

i once put my shelby mags on my fastback, drove it to Big Bang, camped there, took it up the strip twice (22.8 secs!), then on the way out of the pod thought "hmm... this feels funny" - mate behind me started flashing at the same time...

so i stopped, all the rear wheelnuts were loose enough to turn by hand

[nickb]

Never managed to do that.

Had a kind soul help me once though.
Removed all the wheel nuts off the NSF wheel on my pug 205 in the dead of night.

Result: I got about 8 yards down the road when the wheel fell off.

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Once witnessed a pissrat lose a back wheel at 100mph.
Saw said pissrat approaching at speed in rear view mirror. Moved over to allow them to pass. At which point the wheel came off, overtook them, overtook me and came to rest 200 yards away on the central res. The guys in the Pissrat were a bit sheepish - turned out they worked for a local garage and had just finished fettling the brakes, and were taking it for a test run, when the folly of their ways came to light....I wonder what the owner of the car's reaction was.... ;D

[HoTWire]

The night I met the lovely lady who would become my wife the one of the wheel nuts on rear offside wheel on my Alfa were loose (could be turned by hand) ... so the wheel kept knocking as I was driving her home.

I kept making an aweful joke every few miles about getting out and tightening my nuts.... she should have known then she was in trouble!

[welder]

;DAnd she still married you????lol

[stuyizz]

N/S/R wheel fell off my squareback on a saturday afternoon right in the middle of the town centre!! luckly I was only going real slow at the time and the wheel only got wedged up in the arch but I got so much abuse from passers by about picking a stupid place to change a wheel.... Like I had a choice

[Revolution 9]

Never had a wheel fall off from that sort of thing before, but I've had wheelnuts nicked before, the most worrying occasion being when I found some neds trying to blag my Wellers, who ran away when I saw them, but somehow had managed to remove locking wheelnuts evidently with ease since nothing was damaged! There's some talented scum round here!

[tonycocacola]

my bus got shunted a fortnight before the 96 beetle bash, so we had to go in mantamads seat ibiza.
three days before there was a strange knocking noise of the front wheels.cv joints possibly?
no loose wheelnuts ;D
tit ;D ;D ;D

[Kris]

Put new pads in the '77 Mini and just put the wheel nuts on hand tight.

BANG! BANG ! WOBBLE! WOBBLE! ;D

[DarrenW]

When I was at Uni I had a Nautilus blue mini with a matt black bonnet and lovely 6x10" GB Minilite rims. I never parked it there in case anything happened, but being late for a final exam meant I had no choice but to park it in the street. Imagine my surprise as I was driving home - head filled with possible answers to exam questions and what I'd done wrong etc - when at 70mph the odd rumble that I could hear became a loud screeeeeeech as the back wheel overtook me It bounced past the car as I wrestled with the steering to get it to stop straight - over the central reservation of the dual carriageway I was on - and landed in a hay field. I managed to get the car safely stopped and proceeded to spend the next hour in the field trying to find the wheel... Jumping up over the height of the hay looking for where it had bounced to next!

Someone had tried to pinch the wheel, loosening the bolts I think, only the locking one saved it which had worked loose... Two nuts on two other wheels were loose too.

[ImpJimbo]

[Alfasudcrazy]

Only thing like that that happened to me was after topping up the oil on my Fiat 128 3p I forgot to replace the oil filler cap - drove off and when I got a strong smell of oil I opened the bonnet to find my engine covered in oil

[PhoenixC]

Coming back from an Autotest at hartlepool using my mates old trailer (before it became mine) driving a 405 with an MG maestro on the back. I was doing around 60 mph when one of the front wheels came off the trailer bounced over both sides of the carriageway just missing a car going the opposite direction. Trailer started snaking like a curse word and nearly lost it.
Turns out there were only 3 studs on the wheel but one of those had snapped on me at somepoint and the other two wheel nuts had worked there way loose.


Great fun ;D