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I had a freind in a Ek Holden while we were up in glendbroke (NSW). I was infront of him and on a straight dusty road I look out the drivers wind to find a wheel faster than me
ripped all but two studs off and had to go back a K to find his Nuts.
Tell you it was a slow drive home that evening

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Better than it happened there than half way down that hill Pete! How fast can you hit going down that hill in neutral, 100, 110? Very lucky.

How many people from the Forest saw you stuck there?

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A valuable lesson learnt. Check the distance that the nut is screwing onto the stud, and make sure that the nut is the right type for the mag wheel. Some have a taper seat and the other type of 3/8" U.N.F. nut has flat seat. The flat seat requires a close fit between round part of nut and hole in mag.
The problem is that you tighten them and over time they work loose because they are not correct fit.

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when i got my first mini, the front left wheel flew off on the way to the mechanic!! it turned out my wheels were wrong for the brakes, they needed to be S style brakes so they had to convert them, It was so scary though, and i remember looking through the bushes on the side of the road for my wheel, crying my eyes out while dad yelled and swore. And then we overheated on the way home, which meant more tears coz dad takes it all out on me, since its my car

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Been there too, although mine was sheared studs with std rims on board. I was warned by many not to have them on the car (this is before turbo days) and was driving about 50km/hr nd BANG BANG BANG BANG, they all sheared off.

Had to get towed - but I never fixed the ground down balljoint, still had half the nut there for ages till I rebuilt the brakes.

When getting tyres I have always taken the wheels off the car and gone in something else. they don't realise a 3/8"UNF stud is not the same as M12!

Daniel

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Exactly the same thing has happened to me, on exactly the side about 2 years ago. A tyre place have overtightened and stripped the threads on the wheel nuts with their rattle guns.

The wheel came off on Anzac Parade at about 45kph, I saw the wheel flying up in the air infront of the car, it then crashed into my side mirror, cracked it, and bounced back to the gutter. I came to a stop at the side of the road just like in the photo.

You will prob. need a new bottom baljoint, as the friction would have eaten the thread on that pin, luckily it seems you still have the nut there so the bottom arm is intact (in my case the nut dissintegrated completely).

A very good reason to ask to have your tyres fitted manually (and not by some gorilla either) or take the new tyre(s) and rim(s) home and fit them yourselves

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Glad your ok Pete - at least you didn't ruin that nice new paint job by hitting the gutter. I always take my wheels off and take them in separately. I & Ash have had wheels studs stripped by some trigger happy rattle gun expert.

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i saw this and it brourght back bad memorys...
i had my car serviced but a local mini place in melbourne....highly known...and well respected in the mitchim area.....picked the car up after a service...got home...them went out again with the wife to be...got harf way to the shops and the car started to wobble.....i pulled over to all my wheel nuts were lose..none had been tightend...i lost two nuts of every wheel......my dad was furious.he ..rang them up and they said that they had tightend them up...witch he said bull sh@#T.....next time i was there they left $5.00 on my seat to make up for it but i gave it back...i was not happy....
i picked my car up once again after this and the fan belt wasent tensioned iether??
now i check it befoure i leave after any service....

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Look a yellow mini - thats waht you get for driving like this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mukuUETdjqA

Yeah Ben, easily. I was pretty lucky with this one... very lucky actually.

One of my colleagues was in the car with me, he went back into the office and within 10mins I had a bunch of the guys SMS'ing me with "HAHAHAHAHA' and then coming for a look... was all good though.


Pete

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Nup, threads are fine, nuts are fine... looks like I did the silly old 'nip them up and tighten on the ground' but just forgot the tighten bit

Pete

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Nope, no taxi drivers but 3 council workers stopped and I thought 'cool someone to give me a hand'
He got out, laughed and said 'Can I take a picture please'

Then he helped me move it a bit

Peter

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Just plonked off and 2 nuts were right beside it... the other two - who knows where they went.

Pete

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mean dad that's not fair.... I'd have given you a hug

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