Don't forget to tighten your nuts!!

[smestas]

I just saw this video from another site. Poor fellow looses his wheels.

http://www.teamjamoto.com/dixeregionpage.htm

[Marco8]

I feel guilty, but that gave me a good chuckle.

[wastintime]

wow... that was... brilliant. I'm sure that guy had a bad day though... still it is funny

[bell]

man that sucks......funny yet unfortunate......torque wrenches are your friend, although i'll bet he had his wheels off and never tightened them down

[Jeff Alton]

Thankfully no one working the course was injured by this fool.

Guess they don't do tech inspections at that event???

Oh my........

Cheers

[Astroboy]

No one else smells a hoax here?

All wheels off at the SAME TIME?

I feel like someone is looking for YouTube stardom.

[haycait911]

something's funny. even a couple turns of the threads would hold longer than that. as astroboy indicated, to have all the wheels drop at once would be hard to do intentionally. unless the nuts were just sitting on the studs? and you'd notice wheel shimmy immediately.

[Mad Mike]

I wonder if he got a DNF?

It is similar to the Dukes of Hazzard pulling one over on Enus.

[URY914]

He was puttin' on his fancy driving shoes when he should have been checkin' on his nuts.

[Erik Mckenna]

Nice to see that the tech saftey check caught that! before he lost all of his wheels

[wcc]

Good thing he set the parking brake. He wouldn't want the car to roll away.... LOL!

[cashflyer]

Originally posted by Astroboy
No one else smells a hoax here?
All wheels off at the SAME TIME?

+1

[cashflyer]

Posted in OT by masraum:

from the Vortex site:

They were tight when he put them on, the car passed tech inspection.

The explanation was given to me by people who are far more mechanically inclined than me, e.g. they bring their race cars to SCCA events in covered trailers.

Apparently the threads on the wheel studs were different than the threads on the lugs. The felt tight because some portions of the threads were in contact with the lugs and sufficient to hold the wheel on when the car was stationary or moving slowly.

However, as soon as the car reached a certain speed, enough force was generated to rip the threads out of the lugs; the threads in the lugs themselves were stripped out of the lugs are were laying on the track and stuck to the guy's new Toyos.

The example given to me was of an old car whose wheels actually rusted to the hubs; you can beat the wheels with a mallet and shake the car back and forth and the wheels won't come off, but you can then drive the car slowly and they will loosen enough that they can be removed.

I suppose that a really experienced racer (like the guys that figured out what happened) might have recognized that the lugs were wrong, but weekend amateurs- like me- would probably assume that the lugs were OK as long as you could torque them to the proper setting and they felt like they were properly affixed.

Bummer for the car, it was really, really nice- pristine condition. Hopefully the tire company owns up to its mistake and does the right thing so he can get the car back on

I'm not quite sold on the explanation, though.

[mack6820]

wow. I think I would have just walked away and caught a cab home.