Re: Almost lost my nuts!

From: MAGNUM S/T (kevinhoegen@email.com)
Date: Mon Dec 24 2001 - 13:56:26 EST


At least your story has a happy ending...imagine if the topic was "Lost my
tire on the higway" :)

Merry X-Mas
"Andy Levy" <andylevy@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:3C2761F8.2030402@yahoo.com...
> Rotated my tires with some help yesterday (back is messed up lately,
> can't chance the heavy lifting). We found that my left front wheel's
> lug nuts - all 6 of them - were barely tight. Took almost no force from
> the tire iron to remove them.
>
> Last time that I can remember taking that wheel off was when I put on my
> new shocks, back in September. I *know* I cranked them tight then. So
> now the question is - how did they come loose? The other 3 wheels were
> fine. I didn't use a torque wrench but I know they were on tight. Did
> someone screw with me in a parking lot? Did they just work loose?
> Could someone else (Jiffy Lube) have tampered with them?
>
> I drove several hundred miles with that wheel like that and well, now
> I'm a little nervous. At least it stayed on.
>
> -andy
>



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