01-04-2013, 11:30 AM
(01-04-2013, 11:11 AM)cwspellowe Wrote: From experience, loose wheel bolts give some terrifying handling characteristics. Inspect the top of the bolt holes in the hub, if they've been ovalled or tapered in any way the bolts were loose.
When one of my wheels nearly fell off the car tramlined so badly I pulled off the motorway onto a slip road and it did its best to steer back onto the motorway!
I would expect it to cause problems tbh, but it didnt feel any different to normal. I checked the holes too, couldnt see any visible damage/ovalling, and the bolts looked ok, no damage to the threads... There was still plenty of thread through the hubs i think, just not nipped up tight. Started about 4 days after getting the car back from the garage so could they have just worked loose?