The canyon not the best place to loose a tire

[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

[chuckanut105]

Been there done that twice in 2 years it sucks.

[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

[Goatman]

That had to be scary, coming down the canyon. Glad nothing really bad happened.

[Desert Dog]

Thats the worst possible place for that to happen. Glad nobody was hurt.

[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.

[Ibreakshit44]

It was at midnight on Friday and my bolts came loose from the spacer

[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

[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.

[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?

[Mickey]

I run spaces and hadn't had a single problem... Just remember good ol maintenance.. lol

[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.

[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.