[kellzey]

Similar thing happened to a roommate driving back home to Dallas from college in Atlanta.

Cruising down Interstate 10 in his old Peugot (which means crap in French), he feels a sudden right/downward shift in his car. The next moment he notices one of his wheels rolling past him into the emergency lane and then off into a ditch.

He of course comes to a spark-filled stop and goes to inspect the damage. No wheel, no lug bolts, but rotor and brakes are intact. He retrieves his wheel 100 yards away in a field.

Okay... in the middle of Texas prarie country, no cell phone (this is in the 80s) and he has a wheel, but no way to attach it.

He thinks for awhile and decides to take one lugnut from each of the remaining three (4-bolt) wheels to bolt on the rogue wheel.

It gets him to the next major commercial area where he happens to find an autoparts store with bolts for his car.

Not the safest, but it worked.

Glad you were able to be resourceful and didn't get injured.

Regards,

Karl Ellzey
2001 Boxster
'75 914 1.8 (somewhere in transit from Arizona to Florida, why the F&@!#! is it taking so long!)