God hates me

flight doc89

flight doc89

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...or at least doesn't want me to have any fun.

Soooo, been planning this big trip to haul my horse to Colorado (from Alabama) and work on a ranch all summer, kinda work/vacation thing.

Wednesday, tire goes flat on the interstate while I'm driving my mom's borrowed car (first omen).

This morning (friday), tire goes flat on my truck while I'm pulling horse trailer (second omen), but luckily I was only 15 minutes out of town, get a spare tire put on and drive back to town and have couple new tires put on the back. So now I'm ready to rock n roll, I leave home town and head to college town where I live to put the rest of my stuff into the truck and hit the road.

About 30-40 miles out, I notice truck feels funny, kinda shimmy/bump thing going on, so i let off the gas to slow down (im only going 55), then jump/SLAM/sparks/lightshow/grinding halt.

Yep, one of those wheels the shop put a new tire onto came off the truck. Friend came and took the horse trailer home (horse is fine, thank god), gonna get the truck towed in the a.m.
 
suprarx7nut

suprarx7nut

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The wheel fell off?!?!

Reminds me of the sketch about the front of the boat falling off.

"I just want to make it clear that not all the trucks are built like this, not all of them have wheels falling off.... I don't want people thinking they're not safe."

Anyways, sorry for your misfortune at the moment, but gorgeous Colorado is worth your troubles. Hope you eventually get here safe and sound. :)
 
SupraMario

SupraMario

I think it was the google
Mar 30, 2005
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ForcedTorque;1315393 said:
Is your truck reliable when you have good tires and competent tire mechanics? Don't get into a payment you are not comfortable with.
Click to expand...


Yea no shit, Dont go get a new truck because some idiot mechanics fucked up, but I would give them a piece of my mind if I was you.
 
grimreaper

grimreaper

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dont get down man, happened to my old man. Fully loaded box truck lost BOTH rear tires on one side. Lug nuts snapped, bent the hub/axle and nearly tipped the truck over. discount tire over tq'd the lugnuts and a few snapped which loaded up the others and those let go as well.

this is why i let the tire shop do there thing and pull MY tq wrench out in their parking lot and redo the tq specs ;)
 
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labrat469

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When I do tire work at my job I put the lug nuts on by hand to avoid cross threading then use a torque stick. After that I go back and recheck the torque with a torque wrench. Some of the trucks require 140 ft lbs.

Have fun in Colorado, it's beautiful country up there.
 
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