Runaway Tire!

[Doofy]

Great to see an insurance company doing the right thing.

 

[PILOON]

Speaking of insurance--- (OK off topic but blame last poster, LOL)

An acquaintance suffered a heart attack and needed CPR as well as had 2 strokes.
He surprised me saying he was off to the US for 2 weeks (we are in Canada)
Now no insurance coverage is valid for 'pre existing' situations.
Further more he said that he had cancelled his city employee policy as his wife's was a better one.

She worked for the Federal Gov't and her policy covers him as well and that is for anywhere any time no matter what and supposedly even includes air ambulance if needed.

Guess I worked for the wrong employers.
Shucks to get travel insurance I need my MD to certify my health B4 I can get coverage and they don't like to cover anybody over 80.

 

[Jim Shooz]

Sometimes a loose wheel does it right

The funniest moment in motorsport!!! - YouTube

 

[CoastlineDJ]

UPDATE!!! Sorry for not following up regularly (been working on daughters house that got flooded). Insurance adjuster was going to have my trailer repaired and I told him as long as it was like new, I had no problem with that. It was going to cost them a little over $2000 so he decided to buy me a new trailer. I've still got time invested into installing tie downs etc. so I'm not ahead in any of this. I am satisfied though and I'll have to say Geico was great to deal with and they were nothing but courteous throughout the ordeal. Thanks for all the support.

 

[Will S]

UPDATE!!! Sorry for not following up regularly (been working on daughters house that got flooded). Insurance adjuster was going to have my trailer repaired and I told him as long as it was like new, I had no problem with that. It was going to cost them a little over $2000 so he decided to buy me a new trailer. I've still got time invested into installing tie downs etc. so I'm not ahead in any of this. I am satisfied though and I'll have to say Geico was great to deal with and they were nothing but courteous throughout the ordeal. Thanks for all the support.

Thank you for the follow-up. It always good to hear the outcome of these things. I'm glad they did the right thing. One for Geico!

 

[dieselscout80]

I saw his post on another forum and attempted to calculate the force. At a 120 mph closing speed ( which probably wasn稚 that fast here ) a 50 pound tire would have 24,000 foot pounds of energy and a 200 pound truck tire would hit with 95,000 foot pounds. A bouncing tire in the windshield would be bad news.

Some of them time when a tire comes off it is because the wheel bearing seizes and then it cuts the spindle then you have the complete set of duals, hub and brake drum which on a semi is more than 200lbs. I saw the after math of just that in the 1980's it hit a Cadillac head-on and pushed the engine into the passenger compartment.

 

[Dftodd]

Some of them time when a tire comes off it is because the wheel bearing seizes and then it cuts the spindle then you have the complete set of duals, hub and brake drum which on a semi is more than 200lbs. I saw the after math of just that in the 1980's it hit a Cadillac head-on and pushed the engine into the passenger compartment.

I had that happen on an F550 service truck. Was heading down a toll road on my way into work. Was fixing to merge onto another toll road. Toll road had three merge lanes. Right side was west bound only. Lane I was in had the option of going east or west.

I felt the truck catch and veer to the right, then started wobbling on that side. Thought I had a blow out. Checked the mirror on that side fixing to merge over to the brake down lane when I saw a tire pass me . Let out a couple cuss words, straightened the truck back up and took the east bound brake down lane.

As I was easing the truck to a stop, I watched the tire weave through traffic and merge west bound. After getting stopped, I checked the truck out. One of the right real wheels was what went by me. The other finally flopped over when I stopped. And the axle, and rotor were resting on the tire like someone jacked the truck up and placed the wheel under it.

After the tow truck got there and loaded my truck, my boss and I went hunting for the other tire. We found it almost a mile down the road and about 20ft off the road in the grass next to a retention pond.

In my case, the shop that did the annual DOT inspection the day before on the truck overtightened the lug nuts and stretched the threads really bad causing the rims on the right rear to wobble slightly finally causing the studs to give out. Said shop had to pay for the tow, and the dealership for the repairs. They ended up having to replace all 4 rear rims, a new hub, as well as new studs and lug nuts on the front axle and left rear.

Thankfully the rim and tire somehow got through traffic without hitting anyone.

 

[Jstpssng]

As I mentioned in another thread, a Maine State Trooper was killed last week when two wheels came off a tractor trailer. He was a detective on his way to a meeting and had stopped to help a motorist who had spun out and left the highway. It's kind of unclear in the news report how it happened, but I suspect it was a very similar situation as that of the poster just above me.

 

[zing]

If the studs were bad they came from the factory that way since I had just replaced the hubs (including studs), bearings, and brakes less than 200 miles before that. They were Dexter hubs bought brand new direct from the factory.

So because he towed the trailer with a truck that didn't have a brake controller, you decided that he should pay for new wheels studs, new brakes that weren't necessary since you had done them 200 miles before, new tires, and a full inspection on the trailer?

 

[sklunk]

So because he towed the trailer with a truck that didn't have a brake controller, you decided that he should pay for new wheels studs, new brakes that weren't necessary since you had done them 200 miles before, new tires, and a full inspection on the trailer?

First of all he pulled a 7000# trailer with electric brakes WITHOUT a brake controller. I don't know about Nova Scotia but in PA that is ILLEGAL -- period. If a trailer is above 3500# capacity in PA it MUST have working electric brakes and MUST be inspected yearly. So yes I was a little upset with him.

Just to clarify he paid for everything that was damaged while he was using the trailer. That included SOME new wheel studs (I never said all of them -- just the ones that broke), SOME new brakes (when the wheel came off it twisted the drum which damaged the brake magnetsand wires on that hub), and the tire he damaged (again I never said all of them). He offered to pay for the trailer inspection to make sure everything was back up to snuff so I wouldn't get hit with a surprise bill at the next yearly inspection.

You don't have any skin in this game so I'm not sure why you are getting so wound up about somebody else's story. Also if you knew somebody was doing something illegal that could put other peoples' livers in danger are you saying you would not do anything about it??