SmoothCustomer
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So here I am starting this journey to this house this girl was at (she was house sitting /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/devil.gif) and I noticed the whole way there that when I was making turns the car was vibrating bad, and making a clunking noise, definitely suspension, but nothing too bad I can't drive on it. Anyways, I'm leaving her house with my buddy, and we are heading down the road only now the clunk is all the time, very loud, very fast, and the wheel is shaking so bad that it starts to shake out of my hands. Flat tire? Nope. So I'm like WTF? It's so bad I can tell bad things are going to happen, so I turn around to head back to a bank less than a mile away I know I can leave it at for the night, and I know that girl can give me a ride. So I put my flashers on and ride the shoulder going 5 MPH and as my buddy is on the phone telling this girl to come get us, BAM! The wheel flies off the car, rolls across the street (my buddy said "yeah, it's really messed u-Oh, there his wheel goes across the road) hits the nearest trailer park trailer, and as this is happening I have successfully pulled the E-Brake so hard that it would later be hard to get down, and I start running across the street so fast due to adrenaline that I almost catch up with the tire, but I do manage to pick it up like it weighs nothing, (I'm puny, normally these wheels weigh a lot to me) and run back across the street. About 2 hours and $115 later, the car is sitting in my driveway, with a real messed up dog leg and really messed up rotor.
So it turns out that all of this was due to one loose lug nut, had I jacked the car up where I originally pulled over and shaken the wheel around to see what was loose, I would have been home in 20 minutes. Instead, I have one sweet paper weight (the sheared stud) and 3 lug nuts scattered around on route 444.
So it turns out that all of this was due to one loose lug nut, had I jacked the car up where I originally pulled over and shaken the wheel around to see what was loose, I would have been home in 20 minutes. Instead, I have one sweet paper weight (the sheared stud) and 3 lug nuts scattered around on route 444.