Runaway Tire!

[Jstpssng]

Not a bad solution IMO. The chance of the user being able to change it, getting the ridiculous toque tire store lug nuts off, the wheel not being stuck to the hub, and the spare tire not being flat are pretty slim.

I was staying in a motel when a Canadian woman checked in who was traveling from New Brunswick to Quebec in her new BMW convertible.
She'd had a flat going through a construction site and had to wait nearly a week for the new tire to come in.
If my $60,000 sports car left me stranded because I couldn't get a tire, I wouldn't own it for very long.

 

[Looking4new]

Around these parts if a wheel comes off AND you get caught by the cops the fine could get as high as $10,000.oo

 

[civilian]

Around these parts if a wheel comes off AND you get caught by the cops the fine could get as high as $10,000.oo

OUCH! Jon

 

[Dftodd]

I saw one come off an office trailer that was being hauled to a job site. It was on a 2 lane highway between yeehaw junction and melbourne Florida.

Tire came off and hit the other lane as a Pontiac fiero was going by. Hit the front bumper of the car, V'd it in pretty good, then shot about 30ft in the air. I slammed on the brakes so I could keep an eye on the tire. Tire came down in front of my truck, then continued bouncing out through the brush.

Truck kept going, never even realized they lost the tire.

I called highway patrol to give them a description of the truck and trailer. They caught him just before the turnpike in yeehaw junction.

 

[Quebecguy]

All these stories of runaway tires reminded me of a time I was hitch-hiking on the 401 between Toronto and Montreal back in the seventies. Coming towards me a few hundred feet away while I stood beside the highway was a semi trailer rig when all of a sudden there was a very loud bang and that semi gave a violent shake and let loose a big cloud of dust. Not knowing what had happened I kept my eye on the semi and started for the ditch and the field beyond. The semi kept going and was past me when I saw a large tire/wheel following him down the highway. The tire went by me going about 45 mph as the semi was slowing to a stop on the shoulder well down the highway. The tire continued rolling down my side of the highway before altering course and crossing the median of the divided highway. It came up on the other side and a couple of drivers managed to swerve their cars around it before a lady driver smacked right into it head on. I guess she was so shocked to see something like that coming at her she didn't know what to do so just plowed right into it. After I got back up on the shoulder and started walking it wasn't long before I got to the now parked semi. All of its tires and wheels were in place except for the spare which I guess had been attached somewhere under the trailer. It must have come loose and somehow got under one or some of the other tires setting it up for its roll down the highway. One never knows what may happen out on the road!

 

[sklunk]

I was on the opposite end of one of these:

A buddy of mine wanted to borrow my car hauler to bring a vehicle from a few hours away. He mentioned there were a few guys going in a few different trucks. The vehicle was for his son-in-law who I knew didn't have a working brake controller on his truck. I told my buddy "do NOT let your s-i-l pull this trailer without brakes".

Guess what -- he did. I found out after the fact. They made it 3 hours down the major freeways and were 5 minutes from home when he broke 2 wheels studs and one of the wheels came off and went rolling down the road. Luckily it didn't hit anybody but did take out somebody's mailbox and some split-rail fence.

He obviously took care of the mailbox and fence and offered to cover costs of repair to my trailer. I made sure he paid for new wheels studs, new brakes, new tires, and a full inspection on the trailer. And I haven't let him borrow it since!!

 

[two_bit_score]

I was on the opposite end of one of these:

A buddy of mine wanted to borrow my car hauler to bring a vehicle from a few hours away. He mentioned there were a few guys going in a few different trucks. The vehicle was for his son-in-law who I knew didn't have a working brake controller on his truck. I told my buddy "do NOT let your s-i-l pull this trailer without brakes".

Guess what -- he did. I found out after the fact. They made it 3 hours down the major freeways and were 5 minutes from home when he broke 2 wheels studs and one of the wheels came off and went rolling down the road. Luckily it didn't hit anybody but did take out somebody's mailbox and some split-rail fence.

He obviously took care of the mailbox and fence and offered to cover costs of repair to my trailer. I made sure he paid for new wheels studs, new brakes, new tires, and a full inspection on the trailer. And I haven't let him borrow it since!!

Sorry to hear about the misfortune. Glad you got the trailer back to normal and nobody was injured.

Question I have may be dumb but what has having a brake controller go to do with the studs breaking off?



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[Streetcar]

Jstpssng
I had a Ford fusion as company car when they first came out. Got nail in sidewall, replacement tire took a week to get as they use odd tire size

 

[sklunk]

Sorry to hear about the misfortune. Glad you got the trailer back to normal and nobody was injured.

Question I have may be dumb but what has having a brake controller go to do with the studs breaking off?
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Maybe nothing but the trailer and it's load were definitely too heavy to be legally pulled without any brakes (the brakes on the trailer were in working order but without a brake controller they couldn't be activated by the truck pulling the load). And in PA it's not the operator of the trailer who is responsible -- it's the owner! That's why I warned him not to use his son-in-law's truck!!

 

[Deere Dude]

Maybe nothing but the trailer and it's load were definitely too heavy to be legally pulled without any brakes (the brakes on the trailer were in working order but without a brake controller they couldn't be activated by the truck pulling the load). And in PA it's not the operator of the trailer who is responsible -- it's the owner! That's why I warned him not to use his son-in-law's truck!!

That will teach him to borrow a trailer with bad studs.