Near disaster!!!

[JCOJ]

Sorry to hear about your misfortune but glad to hear that all of you were all ok.

Sounds obvious, but I would be getting them to check the other side too!!

[Matto]

Wow - you certainly don't expect something like that to happen. Glad to hear you were all OK - given the circumstances, it sounds like you were very lucky indeed.

Slater and Gordon?

There's been no loss, so there's nothing to claim for. And anyway, I'd recommend their competition  .

Cheers,
Matt

[Barry G]

Wow - you certainly don't expect something like that to happen. Glad to hear you were all OK - given the circumstances, it sounds like you were very lucky indeed.
There's been no loss, so there's nothing to claim for. And anyway, I'd recommend their competition  .

Cheers,
Matt

Maurice B's?  I agree.

[Andy_Q]

I once had a set of tyres fitted to an old range rover with alloy wheels. These wheels have thick steel washers that fit under the wheel nuts. Sometimes the washer would sick to the nut and sometimes stick in the wheel. So of course I ended up with a wheel with no nuts. After a few weeks of driving the nuts had worked loose and damages the wheel. We were travelling on the freeway but luckily I found the problem before the front wheel fell of!


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[Bunyip]

Jaysea,

First and foremost glad everyone was OK and it all worked out in the end. Pity you didn't get to do what you had planned to because of someone's incompetance.

Wow - you certainly don't expect something like that to happen. Glad to hear you were all OK - given the circumstances, it sounds like you were very lucky indeed.
There's been no loss, so there's nothing to claim for. And anyway, I'd recommend their competition  .

Cheers,
Matt

Not that I would ever jump to litigate but in the one instance I was tempted I suffered no loss.
There was no loss when the family couldn't take the trip because the car was unservicable,
There was no loss because I ended up taking holidays when I didn't need to
There was no loss because instead of having the Landcruiser I had to squeeze the family of 5 (including a baby seat) into a Hyundai Excel
There was no loss because I had to interrupt my life on several occasions to drop off/pick up loan cars given to me by my family because insurance wouldn't cover a loan car upfront. I would have had to hire a car (didn't have the cash to do that at the time) and then try to claim it back at the end. We were both insured by the same company so bucklies and none of that happening.

I was fortunate enough to get out of the accident OK, as did my son and the lady driving the other car so in that respect I am extremly grateful.

The lady that drove infront of my car had her car written off on the Monday, cheque in hand by Wednesday and next car by Thursday.
I had to wait 5 weeks for parts etc... Why can someone else's incompetance cause distruption and inconvienience to my families life and all they have to do is pay the excess and be done with it. Perhaps if people could be held to account for more than a $600 excess they might be a little more careful.

[austastar]

Hi,





cheers

[ozstickman]

Hi,





cheers

Wheel nut indicators!! sick of seeing and hearing about them! They are anal about them at work!
But in all serious they are a great idea! They are also designed to melt when the area is starting to heat up so I've been told.

But back to the OP, that looks just like a problem I had with a pair of tyres on my dog trailer many moons ago.  The workshop tyre fitter who is normally great spun a for tyre and rotated a few tyres around my trailers.  We think he didn't tighten up the last of the tyres done with the torque wrench and after driving from Jondaryan to Capella to load then into Mackay port to unload had put some stress of them.  We ran Alcoa rims so once ninged up they don't need re-torquing.  I also done my morning (pre start) all the time and had a look and kick of the tyres, didn't notice anything a miss at Capella.  I pulled up at Eton Pads to split up and I had taken my lead down to Mackay and came back for my B Double and while walking around to swap the signs around on the back I looked and noticed two wheel nuts missing.  I checked the rest and fare enough, a few more were loose and the rim had started to flog out on the studs. I thought "oh no" so I checked all the others that were done down at the workshop with the wheel spanner, no others were loose.

This caused other problems when it came to unload considering it was a tip over axle trailer but that's a different story for a different day or maybe around a fire.  We chained up the axle to get to Mackay.

Now I'm sure someone would pop up and say something like ya should check you nuts all the time but with 14 axles with 10 nuts each side that's 280 wheel nuts to check on the one unit!  But after that I made sure I checked all wheels that had been changed after that day a few hours down the road from the workshop.

Now I'm rabbiting on but the moral of the story is to be sure check yourself.  It was done by a workshop and unless you are told to check something down the road they should responsible for the mishap.  Thankful no one was hurt.

Cheers and beers
Sticko

[TOPNDR]

The advice in our Australian OffRoad Quantum manual is to check the wheel nuts for security 100 & 400 km after any wheel removal & refitting. Fortunately I've only ever had to nip some nuts, just a little.

[gclan]

It's not the best feeling in the world when you see your camper wheel flying down the road beside you is it?

Glad you all survived the experience unharmed, and I hope you get back out on the road again soon.

Fingers crossed for a speedy fix

[WilSurf]

If you have a Patrol GU the you know that you have to check.
Friends were driving in the Kimberley 2 years ago when suddenly their left rear overtook them and bounced off into the bush.
They were all fine but got scared.
They couldn't find the wheel, but on their way back thought to give it another go. They found the wheel 200 meters away from the road.
Back home they heard that many Patrols have the same issue and Nissan had rectifed it by these nut indicators.

[GGV8Cruza]

If you have a Patrol GU the you know that you have to check.
Friends were driving in the Kimberley 2 years ago when suddenly their left rear overtook them and bounced off into the bush.
They were all fine but got scared.
They couldn't find the wheel, but on their way back thought to give it another go. They found the wheel 200 meters away from the road.
Back home they heard that many Patrols have the same issue and Nissan had rectifed it by these nut indicators.

This is why there is a torque wrench in the car all the times. I check them regularly when out and about

GG

[time]

Glad to see there was not a bad outcome and that the company are taking responsibility.

Many of you will know the issue of Patrol alloys, particularly the left rear, departing from the vehicle and going bush.  As a consequence I use a torque wrench to check both the vehicle and trailer at regular intervals.  The occasional nut may require an 1/8 of a turn to get back to the correct  torque setting (133nm).

I am particularly anal about checks after a 100 and 500 ks, as mentioned above, when a wheel has been changed/rotated.

Nissan even put out a video on how to: -

http://youtu.be/Kj4rSRbA67A
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[rinandstumpy]

glad to hear nobody was hurt and welcome to the club, same thing happened to me over the easter weekend lucky i had a spare lazy hub i could fit to get me home, not a nice experience but a very common occurrence by the sounds of it.