Don't be a looser. On Mon, May 31, 2021 at 10:36 AM Curt Raymond via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:
> I had the same thing happen with one of my 190Ds... > These days I take the lugs loose and tighten them back up with the torque > wrench so I know they're tight enough to be safe but loose enough I can get > them off again if I need to. > -Curt > > On Saturday, May 29, 2021, 10:16:43 PM EDT, Allan Streib via Mercedes < > mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > > I few years ago I bought new tires for the Nissan Frontier. Drove home > from the tire shop and next day driving back in to town there was a > strange vibration and noise. Pulled off at a convenience store and found > the lug nuts on the driver's side front wheel were lose, not even finger > tight. > > Tightened them up, checked all the other wheels, and went on with my > day. > > Now I always check them whenever a shop has had a wheel off. > > Allan > > > > Kaleb Striplin via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> writes: > > > I mounted 4 brand new tires to the trailer last night. Earlier today > while on a trip to retrieve a 80 300SD parts car I observed a wheel depart > the trailer and continue traveling down the 4 lane highway and into the > median. I got it pulled over a little ways down the road and the wheel was > continuing to roll and stopped conveniently right where I got pulled over. > It then hit me. This was the side I did first and was going to come back to > this side to tighten the lugs. I completely forgot. The 2nd wheel on that > side was about to fly off. I jacked up trailer, stole a lug off each other > wheel then proceeded to tractor supply where they raped me on a set of 5 > lugs and a bearing cap that got knocked off with the wheel. Can’t believe > somebody didn’t die but after the fact I had a good laugh. > > > > Sent from my iPhone > > > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
