haha I guess it was more so finger tight and now because of that, I've been without my baby for 35 hours and 55 minutes... oh the pain!!

 

i would make a joke about you hand tightening lug nuts...

but i think ill pass on this one [&:]

 

got a stop watch going or something?

 

haha yeh I can't help but think about it all the time... it feels like a week since I've seen the car... but its in good hands, and I think I'll call tomorrow and check up on my baby

 

I almost had a wheel come off (again) yesterday. Let me say this-

IF YOU HAVE SPACERS, MAKE SURE YOU RETORQUE AFTER A FEW MILES.

This makes the second occasion I've had a wheel come loose because they weren't retorqued. They were torqued to the proper spec when they were installed. Once they've been retorqued, they're solid until I take them off again.

Fortunately this time, although I was 2 hrs from home, I was less than 2 miles from a relatives house, so I made a quick detour. I had to stop halfway and try to screw the bolts back in a bit to be sure I didn't lose the wheel or bolts completely.

Turns out, the stock tire iron will NOT fit in the recessed lugbolt holes in Flik rims, to my dismay, on the side of the highway.

Also a reminder for those running aftermarket rims, chances are, they require a conical lug bolt face, while the stock lug bolts are ball seat. If you get a flat with your aftermarket rim, you're not going to be able to bolt your spare onto the car unless you leave 5 stock lugbolts in the car for use with the spare.

 

Had a wheel come off of my Opel GT when I was a young dumb teenager.
Had 3 other guys in the car too (Picture a backseat smaller than the TT Coupe).
I had just changed a tire a few days earlier with a friend and guess we both thought the other torqued it.

So leaving a footbal game one night...
going around a corner it was like..ker - chunk, scraaaaaaaaaape, sparks, horror, wheelrollingpast us as I stopped. Luckily one of the class' smartest guys was with us so he had the brilliant idea to take one lug from each of the other wheels so we could put the wheel back on.
A lasting memory for us all.