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The canyon not the best place to loose a tire

PostPosted: April 9th, 2011, 8:23 am
by Ibreakshit44
So I'm driving back from a family BBQ at Isabella and my tire falls off the front of my truck destroys my rotor and cost me 150 for the tow it was a long night I found my tire about 1/4 mile down the road

Re: The canyon not the best place to loose a tire

PostPosted: April 9th, 2011, 10:36 am
by chuckanut105
Been there done that twice in 2 years it sucks.

Re: The canyon not the best place to loose a tire

PostPosted: April 9th, 2011, 12:10 pm
by Ibreakshit44
Yea it sucks luckily it was just a rotor that got messed up and not me driving into a guard rail or off the cliff lol

Re: The canyon not the best place to loose a tire

PostPosted: April 11th, 2011, 6:03 am
by Goatman
That had to be scary, coming down the canyon. Glad nothing really bad happened.

Re: The canyon not the best place to loose a tire

PostPosted: April 11th, 2011, 6:47 am
by Desert Dog
Thats the worst possible place for that to happen. Glad nobody was hurt.

The canyon not the best place to loose a tire

PostPosted: April 11th, 2011, 6:52 am
by casaintsfan
That had to be scary, any idea how it fell off? Don't know what would be worse, night time or day time. Could've been really bad if it was during the day on a busy weekend. Good to hear everyone is ok.

Re: The canyon not the best place to loose a tire

PostPosted: April 11th, 2011, 8:52 am
by Ibreakshit44
It was at midnight on Friday and my bolts came loose from the spacer

Re: The canyon not the best place to loose a tire

PostPosted: April 11th, 2011, 12:23 pm
by chuckanut105
[quote="SAS YODA 95"]It was at midnight on Friday and my bolts came loose from the spacer[/quote]

Spacers are evil you have to check them a lot had them on my K-5

Re: The canyon not the best place to loose a tire

PostPosted: April 11th, 2011, 1:09 pm
by Desert Dog
The same thing happened to me driving back from Johnson Vallay last year, spacer came off and tire passed jeep down the street. Luckily, Goatman stopped to help.

I will never run spacers again.

Re: The canyon not the best place to loose a tire

PostPosted: April 11th, 2011, 4:48 pm
by Ibreakshit44
Yep same here I'm just glad my son was not with me so what is the best thing to do now to get the axel wider just get different backspaces rims?

Re: The canyon not the best place to loose a tire

PostPosted: April 11th, 2011, 7:26 pm
by Mickey
I run spaces and hadn't had a single problem... Just remember good ol maintenance.. lol

Re: The canyon not the best place to loose a tire

PostPosted: April 11th, 2011, 9:28 pm
by chuckanut105
[quote="SAS YODA 95"]Yep same here I'm just glad my son was not with me so what is the best thing to do now to get the axel wider just get different backspaces rims?[/quote]

Rims cheaper and easier, but like mickey said if you check them all the time like once a week then you should be fine.

Re: The canyon not the best place to loose a tire

PostPosted: April 20th, 2011, 11:15 am
by igofshn
Spacers aren't the problem. it is how you put them on. i ran spacers for 8 years and over 100,000 miles. Never a problem and never retorqued them. They are no different than putting on a wheel.