I have a 98 suburban and i was driving down the interstate and the rim fell off. Three of the studs snapped and two of them stayed on, but the threads were all messed up. What would cause this to happen?
2007-08-10 15:26:08 · 17 answers · asked by zmmh21 1 in Cars & Transportation ➔ Maintenance & Repairs
The most likely cause is that the mechanic made them either too tight or too loose the last time the vehicle was serviced.
2007-08-10 15:31:37 · answer #1 · answered by kirboidz 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
How long ago was the tire replaced? and did you run over anything in the road?
Oretightening a lug is a real easy way to shear one. The lugs that were remaining with the messed up thread, did the threads get messed up while the rim was shaking down the road, or did someone help them fail. If you only have five lugs you are talking about a two wheel drive 1/ton.
At this point I would pull all the wheels and look at the lugs to see if anything funny has been going on.
2007-08-10 22:38:26 · answer #2 · answered by Samuel G 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It was probably caused from the lug nuts being loose. If they were loose then as you were driving then they would start to get even more loose the two studs that didnt break probably lost the lug nuts all together and the others were loose as you drove you may have felt a vibration right before it came off. When the wheel was loose it snapped the other three studs off. Shouldn't be a hard fix unless more of the vehicle was tore up while you were getting stopped.
2007-08-10 22:45:17 · answer #3 · answered by Big-J 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The lug nuts were not tight, and the shimmy of the front end, caused the other lug nuts to fail.
I had a wheel fall off, it was a factory steel rim on a 73 Chevelle, just outside of the bolt pattern the wheel was split like someone cut it with a razor blade. All of the lug nuts were tight. Later on, I found out that it was the rear tire lug nuts that were loose, the guy at the tire shop put the hub cap on and only tightened two of the nuts.
2007-08-10 22:32:12 · answer #4 · answered by Fordman 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If two of the studs were there, but had ruined threads, that means the lugnuts came off of those two studs. My guess is that somebody didn't tighten up the lugnuts. That suburban is a heavy vehicle. Even if three of the nuts were tight, only those studs were holding the weight of the vehicle. If all of the nuts had backed off, you would have known something was getting ready to happen.
2007-08-10 22:37:30 · answer #5 · answered by koshkateer2 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I can only see two possible things that could cause this to happen, the 1st one is that the stud nut are not properly tightened, which might cause the wheel/s to wiggle, make a regular checkup of the stud nuts of your tires, they should always be tightly installed, secondly is to check for the alignment of the wheels of your vehicle.
2007-08-10 22:42:25 · answer #6 · answered by eagdc30 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the lug nuts probably wasn't tightened up properly when the wheel was taken off of it the last time,its good idea to check these once in a while,you,ll have to replace the bad ones,before you can get another wheel to stay on it,hopefully it didn't do to much damage to it,and don,t forget to change you air and fuel flters too,good luck on it.
2007-08-10 22:45:30 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
the lug nuts probably wasn't tightened up properly when the wheel was taken off of it the last time,its good idea to check these once in a while,you,ll have to replace the bad ones,before you can get another wheel to stay on it,hopefully it didn't do to much damage to it,good luck on it.
2007-08-10 22:34:29 · answer #8 · answered by dodge man 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Did someone do service or take the wheel off lately.Do you have some 1 that doesn't like you??The lugs were loose you should of felt it wiggling>
2007-08-10 23:05:14 · answer #9 · answered by 45 auto 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Who last took the tire off and then put it back on. My guess is that the lug nuts were not put on properlytightend to specifications.
2007-08-10 22:36:20 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋