Ever had a wheel come off while driving?

I saw a car with no back wheels at all by the road, near a real sharp curve. It was front wheel drive and cheap, had the solid rear axle. The rear axle and both rear wheels were over by the treeline, they must have fallen off the old shit box when the kids were trying to race around that sharp bend.
Must have been a fun spin-out.. haha
There are some real junk piles out there, usually with teenagers driving them.

On tour in Minnesota

Fucker just came off as we hit an exit ramp


We stopped in Mankato

But that wheel prolly rolled all the way to St Paul lol


Econoline 150, a classic

Kenny Rogers had a song... "You picked a fine time to leave me loose wheel"

Youse guyses do know there's a latch that keeps the hood secure, right?

yes, was passenger in one.

back right came off.

car fell back and down, grinding to a stop. put small groove on road.

the tire whizzed past us and ended up in median about 500 yards down the road.

Actually there's two. But I think something was out to get me that day. I've had that hood up dozens of times (hey, it was a Chrysler) and I'm usually mindful if something doesn't feel right.

Here's the funny thing. After wrenching the hood off and breaking the other hinge I tossed the battered hood deep down into the gulley so I could retrieve it later and went to work hoodless. When I came back it was GONE.

btw how ya been? Thought I might have angered yousesses somehowses.

Saw many when I worked in an auto shop. Rusty studs, improperly torqued lug nuts, tech didn’t clean the corrosion off the wheel/hub before remounting, fucked wheel bearings that drivers just ignore instead of fixing. Happens a lot, actually.

I had a rusty old 89 Ranger. The latch stayed tight, but the wind blowing through the rusted front edge popped the hood open like a paper bag, the top and bottom layers of the hood separated. I got it home, punched a hole through it, and sutured the wound shut with a coat hanger.

Was going as fast as I could, had the right rear wheel come off. I kept going as fast as I could and was still passing slower cars.

I did 3 or 4 more laps and the caution flag came out, so I went in the pits and got another tire and wheel.

The next weekend in the driver's meeting they told everyone to stop if they lose a wheel.

Sure have, lost a wheel and axle once on my 65 GMC.

This is why it is wise to run full float axles.

Keep locks on mine so they won't drive me crazy.

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Yes. Had just driven from NV to Nampa ID thru the Oweeahi mountains. Felt weird driving before but it was getting cold and I didn't want to get stuck on the mountain. I had just had service at a pep boys in flgstaff, all tires rotated. I was going about 50 mph. It felt thumpy and then I almost lost control, veered towards shoulder, heard major scraping sound and car came to abrupt stop while I watched my tire flying thru the air, barely missing other cars. I was in shock. When a cop came him and the tow truck driver were shocked to see that the bolts were sheered...all of them just sneered in half, half still sticking in their holes. Everything was bent near the wheel well.

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Happened to me at approx 50 mph whilst going over the infamous NZ Rimutaka mountain range.
The wheel cracked away from the five wheel studs leaving a dinner size plate still attached to the wheel hub.
Nearly went straight over the fucking edge of a thousand yard drop !

Then the M/F cops arrived and gave us an infringement for a non road worthy vehicle.

NZ cops are often complete arseholes.

Lugs came off with 170 foot pounds so needed replaced.

Too lazy to drive 2 hours into town.

Ordered lug nuts off amazon from calif. Parts store.

Turns out they were grade 3. Landed in ditch with damaged disk brake $300 worth of damage. Insurance company totaled the car and raised my rates to pay for the total check in a year.

I'm sending you a PM, harhar, I just wrote near a chapter for a book, and I don't want to derail the thread.

But no lovey, I'm not angry with you....

Age 16 Nissan Maxima front passengers wheel, traveling at 30mph

everything turned out alright

Lol! Yes. Walmart tyre install.

I like MacGyver men!....

About 10 years ago i purchased a gun safe and a large smoker at Academy. I hired a rollback wrecker to bring them to my house.

The wrecker was behind me on the interstate when one of his rear wheels comes off. I see it come off and speed up heading towards me. I'm in a S10 Blazer and I punch it trying to get away from the wheel.

It ended up going into the feeder taking out 2 cars.

It was a cluster fuck.

This reminds me of when I went to Detroit around 1980. On the way from the airport to the GM office we passed a broken down late model Cadillac on the side of the freeway. Our meeting lasted most of the day. Then on the way back to the airport we passed the same Cadillac, only this time it was up on blocks and the wheels were missing.

.........YIKES!

I have. We had a shop replace the ball joints in our Chevelle Malibu Classic and they had replaced them with the wrong size. Had just picked the car up and was topping a hill at around 45 mph and the right wheel pretty much came off. The car jerked to the right and went into a ditch where a huge rock stopped me. I was pretty shaken up. The cop said if I'd been in a newer car the engine would've been in my lap. My Malibu survived with only a cracked radiator and bent bumper. Older cars are solid. That's the reason I now despise newer fiberglass and plastic cars.

In my VW Jetta. Coming back from Providence on Rt. 1, doing about 60 in the left lane. I see movement out of my left window and watched my wheel go bouncing along aside my car for a while, then over the median, across 3 lanes of traffic on the other side and into the woods - never hit a single thing. All I heard was a grinding sound (my axle on the pavement) but no loss of control or anything. I gradually pulled over to the side and called for a tow.

Really wish I could've seen it from behind me. Must've been a lot of sparks.