Wheel ripped from hub - photo

**Altair** · Nov 20, 2022, 07:07 AM

Wheel ripped from hub.

Previously:

Runaway tire hits car and motorcyclist - GIF
Runaway tire hits car - GIF
Split transfer case - GIF
Extremely filthy oil filter - GIF
Muscle car throws an axle on public street - GIF

**greenie** · Nov 20, 2022, 08:38 AM

That is caused by the wheel nuts not being tightened properly, one has come loose and started the others coming loose, whilst they have merrily kept driving along.
Now with all that shaking and totally ignoring the vibrations and noise, eventually the wheel studs get chewed out,and or, the holes get flogged out and that is the end result.

One of my 'brother's in law' had this happen to him, but he was too stupid to stop and check the car to see what the problem was.
So this is what he presented the mechanic with.

Ah well, I've heard tell that an "IDIOT is born every minute", eh.

Oh, the tow truck driver took lots of pics and plastered them over the local community web, just to make sure he was totally embarrassed by his stupidity.

**Toolmaker51** · Nov 20, 2022, 10:06 AM

An awfully low production rate of manufacturing breakaway fasteners too.

**mr mikey** · Nov 21, 2022, 08:19 PM

I've seen this happen many times, when asked how long has your car been making noise?, what noise or it just started an hour ago.

**mdhatter3** · Nov 21, 2022, 08:27 PM

Saw this happen on aluminum racing rims. Also saw the centers of framed aluminum racing rims torn out when used for auto crossings.

**paul_j** · Nov 21, 2022, 10:01 PM

Before I retired I worked 35 years in road construction. I have found dozens of tire/wheel combos like that one shown in the picture. Many of them
with the new "tits" not worn off of the tire, apparently because the wheel was not properly tightened after installing a new set of tires. Every briar patch along the interstate highways has possible tire/wheel finds. Mobile home tire/wheel combos are scattered everywhere. I kept track one week while I was marking patches, and I found ten mobile home tire/wheel combos that week and I only looked each day during my 30 minute lunch break. I found a few 20 inch semi tires with the tube liner inside and the sticker still on the tread. How did that happen? I remember finding new looking Budd wheels with no tires on two separate occasions. There's treasure along our interstates!

**hemmjo** · Nov 22, 2022, 04:36 AM

That tire looks to me like it was just installed on that wheel.

Wheel ripped from hub - photo-loose-lugs.png

**JoeVanGeaux** · Nov 25, 2022, 01:47 PM

I've experienced the flip side to this problem twice (both wifey and daughter-in-law) whose vehicles had the lug nuts tightened so hard one of the wheel lugs snapped off and on the other, the front wheel developed a wobble - which got corrected after I loosened and re-set the nuts.

This was at a particular nationally known "discounted tire" place (hint!). Since then, I've always made the attendant(s) show me their faces or get their names in the hope that, maybe, they'd pay closer attention... even though I can't recognize faces for squat! That B.S. they give you about their tools being torque-limited is just that... B.S.! On a lightweight passenger car, you shouldn't need to jump on a very long cheater bar to remove lugs nuts or require using your heavier duty torque wrench to loosen the nuts!

[Bonus side story: The tech told my daughter-on-law those lugs wear out over time and will often break off. I went back to that store to find that guy just to hear him say that again to someone with gray, thinning hair. The tech was "not available". I'm not saying it absolutely can't happen, like maybe on abused commercial vehicles, but this was a low mileage passenger car.]

**tlnixon** · Nov 25, 2022, 02:10 PM

Was pulling a pop-up camper years ago with my car and the frame of a mobile home(probably headed for the scrap yard) was being pulled in the opposite direction on 4 lane street. A wheel came off the trailer and thankfully safely went between me and the person to my right without hitting either of our vehicles. I saw it coming and there was nothing I could do.

**Toolmaker51** · Nov 25, 2022, 07:35 PM

Originally Posted by JoeVanGeaux

[Bonus side story: The tech told my daughter-on-law those lugs wear out over time and will often break off. I went back to that store to find that guy just to hear him say that again to someone with gray, thinning hair. The tech was "not available". I'm not saying it absolutely can't happen, like maybe on abused commercial vehicles, but this was a low mileage passenger car.]

I'm picturing myself being told that, long before the gray, thinning hair disguise.
Just how many sets of your low mileage expectancy tires will I have to purchase for that to occur?