Yikes : Bad day for an RX7

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http://www.teamjamoto.com/dixeregionpage.htm

All I can say is wow.................

Forgot to torque the lug nuts?

My memory isn't so good, but I remember somewhere I autocrossed, one of the tech guys had a torque wrench and check the torque on each and every lug nut on my car.

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Originally Posted by cone-cerned

My memory isn't so good, but I remember somewhere I autocrossed, one of the tech guys had a torque wrench and check the torque on each and every lug nut on my car.

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That was last weekend @ the SCCA event. ;)

wow; but how do you forget to tighten every lugnut on all four wheels?

My dad installed the wrong size, too small, lug bolts in the one rear hub of my brothers Dodge. When I had borrowed the car, all the lug bolts pulled through the hub at about 70 mph, and I lost a wheel.

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Originally Posted by POS Racing

That was last weekend @ the SCCA event. ;)

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Now Sparky, my memory is not quite that bad.::Rant::








Or, is it?

i think someone set him up, i don't see any one under torquing 5 lugs on 4 wheels. even more so to the point where you get all 4 wheels to come off at the same time.

How about over torqueing? I could see that causing the problem if the bolts were already stretched to their breaking point.

Wtf??

I could see putting all the nuts on because the torque wrench was still in the tool box and then getting distracted by a bunch of :cat:. Those didn't look even finger tight. I've failed to torque all the nuts on one wheel and driven 100 miles without catastrophic failure.

The word from another forum is that a shop sold him the wrong lug nuts, and he did torque them to 75-80 lb/ft.

That stinks!

I agree with Onething. He was going to do it, when the car was back on the ground and just didn't Git er' Dun.

Imagine sitting out in the 100 degree sun an extra hour waiting to clean that up!

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Originally Posted by cone-cerned

The word from another forum is that a shop sold him the wrong lug nuts, and he did torque them to 75-80 lb/ft.

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That is what I have read also.

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Originally Posted by cone-cerned

The word from another forum is that a shop sold him the wrong lug nuts, and he did torque them to 75-80 lb/ft.

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think i would be back at the store doing some :punchout:

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Originally Posted by cone-cerned

The word from another forum is that a shop sold him the wrong lug nuts, and he did torque them to 75-80 lb/ft.

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Originally Posted by Majik

That is what I have read also.

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Listen real carefully at the video between 1:04-1:10 and they are talking to the driver saying,"You had the wrong size. It won't work. Do you have another set."

Can somebody 'splain to me how you can torque the wrong size nuts to 75-80 ft/lbs? Seems they would strip or be tight. That video looked like the nuts were laying in paddock.

I hope the poor guy can get somebody else to pay for the damage, but I suspect he wont have much luck. If they were the wrong lug nuts, I suspect the shop will do their best to avoid liability. It's worth a try to try and turn it in to insurance... I would love to hear the conversation with the insurance adjuster. :D

Here is a first hand account...
http://www.buccaneerregion.org/forum...opic.php?t=137