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Went for a great wheel in the watto's tonight.

Daniel's Point Rd, hit up some unknown tracks found a pissa near vert hill climb then topped it all off by climbing Whitemans Ridge Rd.

Got to the top easy as, headed back out, turned onto Hue Hue Rd only to drive about a Km and have my front right wheel come off and shoot off into the scrub, bounce over a barbed wire fence, cross the F3 freeway and bounce over another guard rail and come to rest in the median.

Thank christ it was a night drive and there was next to no traffic on the freeway.

Could have been a huge accident if it cleaned up a car doing 110!

I now need a disc rotor so if anyone has a spare one to suit a GQ patrol and wish to sell I would greatly appreciate it.

i've got a pair of slotted disc that i was going to throw out that you can
have.

new 17s anyone

I had this happen to my gu bout a month ago, goin round a round-a-bout LHF came off with no warning. I needed new disc and new wheel bearings and seal. Definately not fun watching the tyre bounce past you!

Had the same thing happen to me on the GQ with a 1.6 t van on the back, in the wet. Ended up on the back of a towie with the van behind. Was the scariest trip home I've ever had. Did the rotor, bearings and never found the new tyre I'd just put on, went down into the scrub never to be seen again. Gazza!

SilverBulletBM wrote:I had this happen to my gu bout a month ago, goin round a round-a-bout LHF came off with no warning. I needed new disc and new wheel bearings and seal. Definately not fun watching the tyre bounce past you!

Its quite common with GUs with alloys...

locktite em.

and if you say u cant crack a lock tighted thread youre a pussy!

ive got the 17" alloys and mine haven't come off yet, thankfully.

i put alloys on my GQ, about a week later i lost the passenger side rear. its definately not the most fun you can have... driving home with 4 wheel studs isnt so great either...

since then ive used the torque wrench, rather than by feel and havnt had an issue, 100ft/lb the book says, and i check them the next day to make sure they havnt settled in

my mate lost a wheel at 100 kms on the way to work the day he was goin in for a roady another mate was constantly doing front wheel nuts up as they kept coming loose, and another mate just lost a front of his new gq ute(alloys). i alway so mine up with a short breaker bar as tight as i think is right, and just a word of advice is to always check them after you get new rims/tyres fitted, a few times iv found them finger tight

Happen to my brother, When he put his alloys back on drove about 500kms never checked the wheel nuts, Like I told him. I had to rescue him get the wheel back on when the car was stuck in the middle of the road, lucky it was a quiet road, but it's hard to put a wheel back on with a bottle jack on a lift patrol and 35's on it and on a hill.
Just remember to always check your wheel nut especially with alloys

lol it funny as ay, i lose mine all the time the trick is to not hit the brakes it saves the rotors hehehe

all the time?
dude its fucking dangerous, fix the problem.

love ke70 wrote:all the time?
dude its . dangerous, fix the problem.

pfft she'l be right hahaha, its fun such an unexpected thing to add some exitement to the drive haha

Damm... when i first read that, i thought the whole roror/brakes/everything came off.. Glad to hear it was just the wheel nuts.

*glad your ok though*

thelux wrote:Went for a great wheel in the watto's tonight.

Daniel's Point Rd, hit up some unknown tracks found a pissa near vert hill climb then topped it all off by climbing Whitemans Ridge Rd.

Got to the top easy as, headed back out, turned onto Hue Hue Rd only to drive about a Km and have my front right wheel come off and shoot off into the scrub, bounce over a barbed wire fence, cross the F3 freeway and bounce over another guard rail and come to rest in the median.

Thank christ it was a night drive and there was next to no traffic on the freeway.

Could have been a huge accident if it cleaned up a car doing 110!

I now need a disc rotor so if anyone has a spare one to suit a GQ patrol and wish to sell I would greatly appreciate it.

Ssame thing happened to me last night but rear left of a gq wagon so if any 1 has a rrear left rotor for gq that they want to sell give me a buz cheers 0400 905 304

i pulled up 50 odd km from cruiser park after expo weekend this year feeling a slight sway that i knew wasnt right...

ended up with 3 studs and 1 nut with less threads holding then a 12mm nut on a 1/2 inch bolt!

LH rear wheel fell off whilst wife was driving in heavy traffic a couple of years ago - no one seemed to notice the wheel nuts falling off or the wheel wobbling. She turned right into a side street and off it came.

RACV had to flatbed to a Nissan dealer as it only had 3 studs left. I did find some of the nuts in the gutter. Nissan told me the nuts are 'soft' and not designed to come on and off every other week with the changing of road tyres to muddies and back.

Anyway, replaced all the studs in back LH, and all the wheel nuts.

Just fortunate it happened at low speed. All good since.

same i lost a rear left wheel overtakin a b doub on western highway in vic. fucked rim studs and disk shroud. put spare on remainin studs and limped 40ks back home. Factory alloys r all gone now only use steel wheels.

ashbilt wrote:lol it funny as ay, i lose mine all the time the trick is to not hit the brakes it saves the rotors hehehe

you guys dont really seem to see the funny side do ya's? if noones hurt it should be funny.

Happened to a bloke just north of coen. His biggest whinge was that it went down an embankment and about 200 metres off into the bush. Took him a long time to drag it back to the vehicle.

hahaha one of the times mine fell off it went into a raging river hahah 90% treaded 35"bfg mud on mag never to be seen again haha

how is it not destroying the alloy wheel, surely it would knock the studs around too?