Something you don't see everyday - oh what a feeling!

[Lionelgee]

Hello All,

I was stopped at the traffic lights in Bundaberg around 4:00 pm today and I was giving way to the traffic coming off the new town bridge. While a Toyota Hilux was driving past in front of me I heard a loud crack and the rear passenger side of the utility dropped down. Next thing this sunraysia wheel with all the wheel lug holes broken out ambled its way down the road in the opposite direction to which the Hilux had dragged itself slowly off to. The ute was the lead vehicle off the lights and everyone behind it missed the slow moving wheel. No I did not have a camera with me. I thought - well that is something you don't see everyday - oh what a feeling Toyota! :p

Kind Regards
Lionel

[Cobber]

Not so invincible after all! :D

[austravel]

My mate has a 4.2 turbo diesel patrol wagon. "The toughest and best 4x4 you can get" he would say. We were traveling down the highway, car trailer on with a hilux on it (broken of course). Im sitting in front passenger seat, he said there was a bit of a wobble. Next minute the front left wheel and tyre went flying behind us as we coasted the heavy "boat" to a stop. Yer real tough!

[rijidij]

This Cruiser was blocking a track last year at Cape York. It was missing more than just the wheel......hub, stub etc........just fell off apparently :D:D:D:D

Cheers, Murray

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[Michael2]

some years ago there was a post on this forum about a re-call on Sunraysia rims

[DeeJay]

The 6 Toyota studs are not as big as the 5 on Landies & certainly not as strong. If you let the wheel nuts get loose they shear easily. We met a 60 series Toyota ( a local with horse trailer) on the Gibb River road last year that had a wheel off. The owner had hitched a ride into the nearest station - Home Valley -about 60 k away & left his Jillaroo to look after the horses. Stinking hot day. He must have been a tightarse as we had a puncture repaired there & he had hassled the workshop over the cost & gone on to El Questro. Had to pity the Jillaroo.

[Chops]

The other weekend we watched a Nissan fly passed us, darting through the traffic,, had the big suspension and body lift, but had little wheels on it,, looking a bit daft,, as they do ;)
Two mins down the road, peak hour traffic, he's half off the road, on the footpath with the front wheel leaning against the front of the car.

You play with the manufacturers specs,, I guess something's gotta give eventually.

[D110V8D]

Was driving behind my brother in law's Hilux once when the rear drivers side wheel came off. Bounced off the car to his right and then went flying down the road and came to a stop on the nature strip. On closer inspection, after he managed to get the vehicle to the side of the hwy and I went to collect the wheel, it seemed to have snapped the axle. The whole hub, stub axle and wheel still in one piece, with the broken axle hanging out the back of it, the rest of the axle still inside the housing in the diff.

Never seen anything like it. The people in the car that it hit were very lucky to get away with a bent front left quarter panel/bonnet.

He got rid of the Hilux shortly after that. :D

[350RRC]

The 6 Toyota studs are not as big as the 5 on Landies & certainly not as strong. If you let the wheel nuts get loose they shear easily........... .

Exactly what happened to a mate of mine driving from Perth to Esperance to pick up a boat for a fish survey job in Vic in Feb.

100 series with some sort of alloy rims. Studs broken, rims trashed, had to get new steel rims and all new studs fitted. They are tiny compared with RRC.


Have also seen an 80 series in the emergency lane on the Ted Whitten bridge on Melb's ring road missing the LH rear wheel. Wheel was nowhere to be seen, maybe bounced into the Maribyrnong River many metres below.

DL

[UncleHo]

Wheel stud strength was one of the things that Landrover enlarged with the Series 3 and also the Range Rover studs were enlarged with the 86 year model with the advent of fuel injection and higher horse power, I can remember seeing a badly damaged RRC wheel (large hole) that had been used on a small stud axle,it wasn't pretty.

[JDNSW]

When I was in the Simpson working in the sixties, we had Landcruisers - and carried spare wheel studs and nuts in every glovebox. I got so that I could replace one by the roadside in about twenty minutes. You had to keep a good eye on them, and be aware of unusual noises, but we never actually lost a wheel. Of course, in those days, like Landrovers, there was absolutely no sound deadening or insulation anywhere in them.

John

[ATH]

The Cook and me have recently had a tussle with the maker and retailer about Sunraysia wheels fitted to our small caravan.
Two were very badly buckled and one not so much so maybe just within tolerances.
They never came off but shook the van up badly making stuff fall off inside and outside and caused serious wear to one tyre.
Total crap made in China and never checked by the importers, van maker or tyre fitter for trueness.
The maker, Goldstream and retailer George Day, couldn't have cared less about the safety aspect but they paid up for new wheels eventually after we took action in court against them.
AlanH.

[Didge]

Goodonya Alan, good to hear. Typical attitude by so many retailers and manufacturers - looking to blame someone else and shed all their responsibilities.
I know it's not a wheel stud but have a look at this video and in particular the 5 minute mark

4x4 Fails 2012 - YouTube

cheers Gerald

[Hoges]

Actually that videop clip is very instructive (on what not to do!!) ... I note one scene where the ?Jeep is being retrieved with a looped strap around the towball... another where the spotter is close to the tow line... others seem to have no idea about centre of gravity...a decent axle/body lift can be useful in some situations no doubt... but a couple of those scenes indicate that said lift is also worst enemy when it comes to teetering on the brink!:angel::wasntme:

[disco2_dan]

My mate has a 4.2 turbo diesel patrol wagon. "The toughest and best 4x4 you can get" he would say. We were traveling down the highway, car trailer on with a hilux on it (broken of course). Im sitting in front passenger seat, he said there was a bit of a wobble. Next minute the front left wheel and tyre went flying behind us as we coasted the heavy "boat" to a stop. Yer real tough!

Exact same thing happened to my mates pootrol coming home from his mums farm at lithgow towing our bikes!!!! Front left wheel took off and into the bush on the side of the road!

[robbotd5]

A lot of unbreakable Hilux's getting broke in that video.
Regards
Robbo

[chook73]

Goodonya Alan, good to hear. Typical attitude by so many retailers and manufacturers - looking to blame someone else and shed all their responsibilities.
I know it's not a wheel stud but have a look at this video and in particular the 5 minute mark

4x4 Fails 2012 - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQ158NgNoPI)

cheers Gerald

I love how they used the winch extension strap to go between the two winches to snatch the vehicles out......:eek:

Watching that video not one of those recoveries was done in a safe manner.....

[Rick1970]

There was a newer type hilux at the cnr near work, as I came around the corner at 1st glance the LH front wheel had come off....at a second glance the hub/stub had stayed with the rim.....which someone was wheeling down the road.....

Lost a rear wheel of my old Rodeo once...lucky I had felt the vib and had slowed to near stop when it actually came off...no fun trying to straighten 6 wheel studs with a 4lb hammer at 4 in the morning :mad:

or trying to drive same Rodeo with a now two piece lower control arm.......twice........or rear shackle hangers ripping from the chassis...

The rangie may leave its mark on the ground, but at least it gets home...

[ATH]

A memory has arisen from the dark recesses of my mind of when I started an apprenticeship as a mechanic in the UK. One of the actual mechanics was road testing a Bedford Dormobile he'd worked on and going down a very long 1 in 10 hill the front nearside wheel came off and went down the hill in front of him at a rapid rate of knots.
He stopped and the Bedford just tilted over onto it's brake drum, wheel stopped against something without causing huge damage....and guess who they tried to blame?
Yes the brand new apprentice.:o Bastards.
I didn't stay there too long.
AlanH.

[ezyrama]

I have a trailer made out of a Puslux ute body, the wheel came off that thing and passed me doing 80km/hr 50km east of Goondawindi, it ran into the bush on the other side of the road, hit a fallen tree and jumped about 30 feet in the air, ground the axle stub down to a point too . Bloody Tomota, they dont even make a good trailer!

[scarry]

Wheel stud strength was one of the things that Landrover enlarged with the Series 3 and also the Range Rover studs were enlarged with the 86 year model with the advent of fuel injection and higher horse power.

But,with the more powerful D3/4,the wheel studs have shrunk,as have the strength of the wheel nuts,compared to the D2 and previous models.