[masraum]

Yeah, I would be surprised if a nylock, even a used one, worked it's way off. You're probably right about forgetting to tighten.

I remember forgetting to tighten some lugnuts years ago. I noticed a noise, got out and looked around and didn't see a problem. Started going again, and then the noise started back up. I stopped again and me and my buddy were looking around. The sound was coming from the passenger's side, but since we couldn't find anything, my buddy decided to check the driver's side. What he found was that the front wheel only had 2 of 5 lugnets, and those two were about half undone. I tightened those two up and then snagged one each from 2 other wheels, so I had at least 4 lugnuts on each wheel which was enough to get to a FLAPS.

Originally Posted by Tobra

I think you can forget about winning the lottery.

Exactly. He used his quota of luck up for a while.

Glad it turned out OK and you could tell there was a problem. I have no doubt that there's a huge portion of the public that would have kept driving until there was an incident.