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Old 08-08-2005, 10:32 PM
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Driving along and all of a sudden pop.
Be sure to check your wheels.
Old 08-08-2005, 10:34 PM
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You are a crazy fool, lucky you are still alive
Old 08-08-2005, 10:35 PM
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Yea had a similar prob... bought ARP studs...
Old 08-08-2005, 10:59 PM
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damn... all the autoX gotcha ..
Old 08-08-2005, 11:02 PM
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ouch!
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Been there, done that. It is SCARY to have a wheel fly off while you are driving.. in heavy traffic..
Old 08-08-2005, 11:18 PM
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So it wasn't your rearend after all?
Old 08-08-2005, 11:28 PM
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danamian...i must say that is the most ghetto way you could jack up your car, sittin on paint buckets, but its good that things didn't go worse then they did, b/c they could of gotten bad quickly
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had a similar experience at the track, had ET Streets and heard a pop/clunk; thought it was the rear end so I called it a day..... on the way home the ******* wheel comes off the lugs and rotor rides on the rim..... that $hit was
Old 08-09-2005, 12:48 AM
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and no thanks to Gray for saving your *** you biatch LOL


what a wonderful time with that car
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****...sorry to see that. WTF is up with the paint buckets supporting the ride??!!
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I just have the caliper sitting on the paint bucket. I have a jack stand under the A-arm
Old 08-09-2005, 01:25 AM
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IF you under or over TQ the lug nuts that will happen. You are lucky to still have your car in one peice.
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Originally Posted by BigBronco
and no thanks to Gray for saving your *** you biatch LOL


what a wonderful time with that car
And yes, I forgot the most important part of all. Thanks to gray for helping me deal with all this, even with helping me get the car back started after the hazards drained the battery. Also thanks to Kevin for getting a hold of some more lug nuts for me, if it wasnt for great friends today I would have been screwed. Thanks guys.
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When before it happened it started making a **** load of noise. I pulled over, looked at the front suspension, saw nothing, so I started driving at about 10mph limping the car home, and then it just fell to the side. The rim never came from under the car. When it happened I thought it was something with the shock spring combo....Untill I saw the rotor sitting on the rim. The only damage thats done is that I need to get new wheel studs, and new lugs. Its been a while since ive had the wheel off the car, so I have no clue why this would happen. Either someone wanted this to happen, or they tried to steal my wheels, and wasnt nice enough to leave me a letter saying they broke my ****.
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n/p D, just give me a shout on your way to the shop.
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Originally Posted by ContractKiller
n/p D, just give me a shout on your way to the shop.
will do. Now early tomarro I have to work on replacing the starter in the beater. Its pretty sad when the fast car is more reliable than the beater.
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Sorry I wasnt able to help man but I was busy at work...
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I was at work too!

Might as well do a brake job while you're down there, you and I both know damn well those rotors need to be replaced lol
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Glad you were ok man. Sounds like some crazy ****.



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