Reply With QuoteSounds like something a carjacker would do to get you to pull over!
RoverLord
Yesterday, coming home from town, I was about 10km from home, and noted a scraping sound that corresponded with wheel rotation speed. So I stopped and started looking underneath for the stick I had picked up and was rubbing against a wheel.
No stick. So walked round and felt all the hubs for difference in temperature (wheelbearing).
All hubs were cool, but I noted that the LH front wheel had four loose wheel nuts! These had a gap under the nut of about a millimetre, so it was not all that obvious.
I tightened them, and the noise disappeared.
That wheel has not been touched for probably six months.
Wheel nuts can come loose, and if on the left of the vehicle will continue to loosen as you drive. I still have not figured out exactly how the noise was created. I probably only drove with it making the noise for perhaps half a kilometre, but it was probably slightly loose before that.
Lesson - if your car starts making a strange noise, investigate it! (At least it was daylight, wasn't raining, and there was no traffic!)
John
JDNSW
1986 110 County 3.9 diesel
1970 2a 109 2.25 petrol
Master
SupporterSounds like something a carjacker would do to get you to pull over!
2001 Disco D2 V8
2008 Defender 90
2013 Disco SDV6
Super Moderator
This is why truck drivers check the wheel nuts as part of the daily checks. Plastic indicators negate the use of a wheel brace.
If you don't like trucks, stop buying stuff.
RoverLord
Yes, but this is, I think, only the second time it has happened to me in over sixty years of driving, and is the first time in this vehicle in over 600,000kms and thirty years.
John
JDNSW
1986 110 County 3.9 diesel
1970 2a 109 2.25 petrol
Master
Supporter...also, I never really thought of them getting looser on the left hand side. Makes sense though...
2001 Disco D2 V8
2008 Defender 90
2013 Disco SDV6
RoverLord
This is why some vehicles have LH threads on the left side (usually with one broken stud due to heroic efforts to loosen them, assuming they are RH threads!).
John
JDNSW
1986 110 County 3.9 diesel
1970 2a 109 2.25 petrol
Super Moderator
I got caught badly trying to remove the right side steer wheel from an old snoopy MAN, years ago.
Presumably someone had previously relined the brakes, by removing the hubs and drums. They were replaced on the wrong sides, with the LH threads on the RH side.
If you don't like trucks, stop buying stuff.
LordRover
SubscriberI remember my sister coming to my place of work because she was unable to get the wheel off. She had had some bloke trying to help. Boy they took some shifting after he'd been at it. Car was a VE Valiant....
JayTee
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1980 SIII Petrol Tray: Doris
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ForumSage
This reminds me of an incident in my Iveco. Before I upgraded the diabolical brakes. The brakes overheated and softened the powdercoating on the rims, subsequently the wheel nuts loosened, Stopped to investigate noise and found one wheel nut about to fall off and others finger tight.
AT REST
SubscriberThe nuts on the spare wheel can also come loose.
Happened to my son recently on the Gibb Rd - nuts loosened on spare wheel (a mag), elongated holes, came off the back of his Prado and went under the N/S wheel of the camper, flipped it 360 deg, broke Treg coupling and two safety chains and came to rest back on it's wheels in the middle of the road!
Roger
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