WARNING CHECK YOUR NUTS , LUG NUTS THAT IS!!!

[shotgun]

Helping a friend with his 71 GTO.

He got taken to the cleaners by a couple of shops and I am trying to straighten things out for him.

Doing a lot of undo/redo work.

Anyway to make a long story short, during one of his first test drives drives, wrecked the car.

We found: loose ,broken and missing wheel studs. Also had the wrong nuts that were bottoming out causing a "false" tight.

He was very lucky for someone who lost a wheel, r/f came off.

So far the estimate for repair is over 20k!

My rule of thumb for lugs is, check once a day for the first week, one a week for the first month and monthly thereafter.

Take 2 minutes and could save your life!

 

[Bonnewagon]

Hey there Shotgun, long time no see. You ain't kidding, that's some scary sh*t. What the hell kind of "shop" lets a car go out the door like that? Then again, I had a friend who let another friend do his brakes. Afterwards he complained of a clunking when he started and stopped. Turns out all the lugnuts were left loose!

 

[pontiacgp]

Shotgun, I hope your friend is taking legal action against that shop. It is so hard to find a good shop and the ones who do sloppy work don't deserve to be in business. I check my lug nuts every couple of weeks and after a few hours if I just installed the wheel on the car

 

[MrSony]

Hope he sues the sh*t out of them. They could've killed multiple people, not to mention they mangled that poor goat!