Reddit user posts wheel ripped off, your verdict?

[TheLoraxxZeus]

I try not to cross post stuff between platforms but I also do not take part in Reddit anymore so thought it would be interesting to get the opinions of some folk here.

Context

I've heard plenty of stories of wheels coming off because the nuts were not torqued and the nuts either fall off or some fall off and the remainder sheer. I've never heard of an axle straight up snapping like that outside of those nutters that do rock scrambling, I've seen it happen on Rickshaws when you got 3 large humans in the back and the rider drops it off a kerb but a passenger car?

I'm banking on the diff not having any oil. Thoughts?

[Hoofy]

I'm impressed the garage is going to deal with it and not try to say it was a coincidence.

Mind you, until we see the final work...

[Puddenchucker]

My guess would be wheel bearing failure due to lack of lubrication and/or incorrect (re-)assembly.

[s p a c e m a n]

My only contribution is that did not just happen, that made a fk tonne of noise and weird vibrations before it left the chat.

Regardless of who's fault it was, there's no way the driver didn't know that something was wrong and they decided to keep on going. If it was a wheel on the caravan I'd give them the benefit of doubt but that happened a meter behind their ear holes.

[geeks]

s p a c e m a n said:

My only contribution is that did not just happen, that made a fk tonne of noise and weird vibrations before it left the chat.

Regardless of who's fault it was, there's no way the driver didn't know that something was wrong and they decided to keep on going. If it was a wheel on the caravan I'd give them the benefit of doubt but that happened a meter behind their ear holes.

Could have been one of those "Hmm whats that..... oh st oh st oh st" type failures

[Megaflow]

s p a c e m a n said:

My only contribution is that did not just happen, that made a fk tonne of noise and weird vibrations before it left the chat.

Regardless of who's fault it was, there's no way the driver didn't know that something was wrong and they decided to keep on going. If it was a wheel on the caravan I'd give them the benefit of doubt but that happened a meter behind their ear holes.

This. The noise that would have been making before failure would have biblical, but the driver carried on completely oblivious to it, just like more and more drivers on the road these days. Here are 3 examples I came across just this weekend:

1) Driver 1, reversing out of a parking space, drags the front bumper across the top of a kerb, no way they didn't hear it from inside the car, absolutely no response from the driver, no change in facial expression at all.
2) Driver 2, trying to pass a badly park car/trailer combination in the tip, tight but enough space to do it, clatters wheels into the NS kerb mounts it and carries on, again absolutely no response or recognition.
3) Driver 3, the best by far, I am heading south east on the A5 past Hinckley when I get to the Harrow Brook roundabout, I am in the middle of the 3 lanes from Watling Street on the top left to proceed down the A5 in the bottom right. To my right is a Luton van, just before the exit for Coventry Road, said Luton van comes across at me! Not being familiar with the area wondered if I had mistakenly wandered from the correct lane for the A5, how I avoided the collision I have no idea. Turns out, I did not change lane, the van driver in the 3rd lane despite being clearly marked for the A5 wanted to go, and did go, down Coventry Road!!!