I had something similar happen to me cruising down the highway. Some how one of my Daytons wassnt on correctly and it worked itself loose. The moment I started to slowdown it came right off. So embarrassing
Same thing happened to me when I was 17, except it was a set of player wire wheels. Me and a buddy were rollin around late at night in the middle of nowhere, went to slow down and the wheel came off. It got jammed in the wheel well, with the front of the car sitting on it. This was at like 11pm at night. Back then, most kids didn't have cell phones like kids do now (me and my boy included) so we were just stuck on the side of the road, in the middle of nowhere, hoping somebody would drive by, since we had no tools or a jack.
Half hour goes by, we don't see nobody
. Finally someone who lives down the road is coming home and stops, and let's us use their phone. I get my old man to come out there and bring a jack so we can get the wheel out and back on the car. He wasn't impressed at ALL
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Long story short, when I installed the adaptors for the wire wheels, I used regular car lugs instead of acorn nuts. The regular car lugs stick out a bit, so the wheel was never fully seated onto the adaptor, didn't matter how tight I'd done them up, it was gonna come off. Luckily it only happened when I was coming to a stop!
