Tyre came off, anything I can do?

[Zarco]

21st Century Man said:

21st Century Man said:

I can't see how it's even remotely possible for a tyre coming off to be fitter error?

Unless it's a duff new valve and/or the rim wasn't cleaned up and there's been a leak, but it's still driver error for driving on a flat, even if the chain of events takes it back to the fitter.

Arguing with yourself now?

[Pica-Pica]

Zarco said:

21st Century Man said:

21st Century Man said:

I can't see how it's even remotely possible for a tyre coming off to be fitter error?

Unless it's a duff new valve and/or the rim wasn't cleaned up and there's been a leak, but it's still driver error for driving on a flat, even if the chain of events takes it back to the fitter.

Arguing with yourself now?

Argue = put forward reasons for and against. Perfectly acceptable for one person to do that.

It is different to disagreeing with yourself.

[Zarco]

Pica-Pica said:

Zarco said:

21st Century Man said:

21st Century Man said:

I can't see how it's even remotely possible for a tyre coming off to be fitter error?

Unless it's a duff new valve and/or the rim wasn't cleaned up and there's been a leak, but it's still driver error for driving on a flat, even if the chain of events takes it back to the fitter.

Arguing with yourself now?

Argue = put forward reasons for and against. Perfectly acceptable for one person to do that.

It is different to disagreeing with yourself.

Internal debate?

[Blib]

Riley Blue said:

Monkeylegend said:

DJP said:

This never happened and the OP will never be heard from again.

Are there not times when new posters cannot post, ie after 9pm or something?

Maybe we should give OP the benefit of the doubt and see if they return to the thread today.

If not then you are correct, another time waster bites the dust.

Ripping into new posters is like picking on the new kid in the playground, there are some who consider it 'clever' and 'fun'.

The kid in question didn't really make it in to the playground. He just shouted at the other kids as he walked by the gates.

[DaveE87]

Checking wheel nuts a few miles after a wheel has been off is covered in a theory test. I thought it was common knowledge. I think in ~15 years of driving I've only ever found one or two wheel nuts that have been loose - it's rare but not unheard of.

[kambites]

Assuming the OP actually means "tyre" not "wheel", I had much the same thing happen on my old Corrado a number of years ago. New tyres (some sort of Michelins, I think) all round, then I drove ~100 miles to my parents, which was fine. Checked the pressures while I was there, no problems. On the way home, one rear tyre just fell off the rim - as far as I could tell it went from full inflation to completely parting company with the wheel in the space of about 5 meters, fortunately at very low speeds.

No-one could find a fault with the wheel or the tyre.

[Mave]

Gad-Westy said:

It is quite strange. If you have work done on your brakes or suspension etc, you're not expected to check torque afterwards. It feels more like a get out of jail free card for the tyre fitter in case they just forget to do your wheel nuts up.

Probably because the margin of error on wheel nut torque is much smaller than on brakes or suspension.

[kambites]

Mave said:

Probably because the margin of error on wheel nut torque is much smaller than on brakes or suspension.

Is it? I'm sure plenty of cars are running around with their wheel nuts done up with an air-gun to several times the recommended torque.

[David Beer]

Blib said:

The kid in question didn't really make it in to the playground. He just shouted at the other kids as he walked by the gates.

Sorry this post was just crap, where is the op ?

[Mave]

kambites said:

Mave said:

Probably because the margin of error on wheel nut torque is much smaller than on brakes or suspension.

Is it? I'm sure plenty of cars are running around with their wheel nuts done up with an air-gun to several times the recommended torque.

What's that, 300 - 500 Nm? Surely it would fail? (Or be close to failing... Maybe that's what happened here...)

Edited by Mave on Sunday 28th November 09:07