Wheel comes off vehicle while driving, Honda Fit
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Originally Posted By: 440Magnum
Originally Posted By: FowVay
I thought the locking lug nuts were only one per wheel. Did they replace the entire set of lug nuts?
+1... no reason to have even touched but one nut per wheel.
Agree plus she didn't need all new lug nuts like if she had bought new wheels.
Originally Posted By: FowVay
I thought the locking lug nuts were only one per wheel. Did they replace the entire set of lug nuts?
+1... no reason to have even touched but one nut per wheel.
Agree plus she didn't need all new lug nuts like if she had bought new wheels.
Originally Posted By: GMBoy
My question a few pages ago remains unanswered:
Is this girl who had the wheel come off pretty?? If so, that explains why the parts store guy installed them for her.
x2. If it was a young guy who walked in and tried to buy them the parts counter guy would have said he didn't carry one. He most likely "made one fit" so he could help out the pretty girl. Sad, but reality.
My question a few pages ago remains unanswered:
Is this girl who had the wheel come off pretty?? If so, that explains why the parts store guy installed them for her.
x2. If it was a young guy who walked in and tried to buy them the parts counter guy would have said he didn't carry one. He most likely "made one fit" so he could help out the pretty girl. Sad, but reality.
I was pretty sure that the OP mentioned that the girls father was with her at the parts store. Daddy should have known better.
Can you imagine the noise that the car was making as the wheel nuts were backing off??.... to keep driving as the rim was clanging/banging is hard to believe.
Originally Posted By: Papa Bear
Can you imagine the noise that the car was making as the wheel nuts were backing off??.... to keep driving as the rim was clanging/banging is hard to believe.
Its a young lady driving. That she was busy on her cell phone is assumed.
Can you imagine the noise that the car was making as the wheel nuts were backing off??.... to keep driving as the rim was clanging/banging is hard to believe.
Its a young lady driving. That she was busy on her cell phone is assumed.
Originally Posted By: css9450
Originally Posted By: Papa Bear
Can you imagine the noise that the car was making as the wheel nuts were backing off??.... to keep driving as the rim was clanging/banging is hard to believe.
Its a young lady driving. That she was busy on her cell phone is assumed.
If you guys bothered reading entire posts, you would've noticed that the wheel came off at roughly 20mph as the young lady was trying to pull over. But we all know that everybody posting here is an exemplary driver.
Originally Posted By: Papa Bear
Can you imagine the noise that the car was making as the wheel nuts were backing off??.... to keep driving as the rim was clanging/banging is hard to believe.
Its a young lady driving. That she was busy on her cell phone is assumed.
If you guys bothered reading entire posts, you would've noticed that the wheel came off at roughly 20mph as the young lady was trying to pull over. But we all know that everybody posting here is an exemplary driver.
Originally Posted By: ltslimjim
Originally Posted By: Papa Bear
Originally Posted By: GMBoy
My question a few pages ago remains unanswered:
Is this girl who had the wheel come off pretty?? If so, that explains why the parts store guy installed them for her.
Good post, GMBoy, you seem to be the only one with his eye on the ball in this thread.
OP, PLEASE ANSWER THE QUESTION !!!.....
Sure, she's a good looking young lady. *ahem* ...said the counter 'man'.
hopefully she didn't offer any benefits. because she got screwed here with the lugs fallin off
Originally Posted By: Papa Bear
Originally Posted By: GMBoy
My question a few pages ago remains unanswered:
Is this girl who had the wheel come off pretty?? If so, that explains why the parts store guy installed them for her.
Good post, GMBoy, you seem to be the only one with his eye on the ball in this thread.
OP, PLEASE ANSWER THE QUESTION !!!.....
Sure, she's a good looking young lady. *ahem* ...said the counter 'man'.
hopefully she didn't offer any benefits. because she got screwed here with the lugs fallin off
"I was in Georgia on tour when I noticed that the tires on my van were wearing weird, so I took it to Sears Automotive a trusted name in automotive care...it took them 3 and a half hours to change 4 tires...they had to wittle one out of a piece of wheat...and $900 of my hard earned cash, I took the first right hand turn out of the parking lot and the left rear tire falls off, it falls off, it falls the [heck] off..turning my van into a tripod, sending me into a dimension of [angry] I have never been in before in my life! Later through research I discovered that this guy was a tire guy, he didn't somedays work on transmissions...he was a tire guy. Apparently Sears sent him to tire...college...for 3 days, apparently he was sick on LUGNUT DAY, but they still let him work on my van! So I'm sueing them and I'm hoping by this time next year they will have to rename the Sears Tower in Chicago to ehh Ron White's Big Ole [gosh darn] Building and you guys can all come party!"
Thank you Ron White.
Thank you Ron White.
^I thought that was pretty funny there.
Originally Posted By: urchin
I was pretty sure that the OP mentioned that the girls father was with her at the parts store. Daddy should have known better.
Yes, the girl's dad was with her at the parts store. It just seems like he trusted the employee as well, that he found 'the right fit'(no pun intended)...
Remember, not all guys are automatic car buffs.
The father has been doing intensive computer-related work his entire life and has little time week to week(especially to have picked up auto work it appears), and so relies on the 'good' folks out there in the business of automotive(parts match/replacement salesman, repair/tune expert or mechanic etc, you name it) to know their stuff and perform reliable work. They get paid to do so(arguing over how much is a moot point because how much we all 'make' varies and money is always changing hands, stagnating money = bad economy; right?).
I don't 'necessarily' blame the father, if he was a car buff? Of course, it doesn't appear like he had much if any experience(at least relatively recent) in having to size lugs to a wheel. How many people have lugs go out? I bet the little Civic I'm driving has the original lugs, or replacement chinese, either way they are peeling/flaky and rust coated...hmm, maybe I know who to go see for replacement lugs?
PS: Yes, these folks could have died on the freeway/interstate. She felt the weird handling, heard the sound, father/daughter/mother as well!...just didn't catch it in time. We all have moments of a 'lesson learned'.
Originally Posted By: urchin
I was pretty sure that the OP mentioned that the girls father was with her at the parts store. Daddy should have known better.
Yes, the girl's dad was with her at the parts store. It just seems like he trusted the employee as well, that he found 'the right fit'(no pun intended)...
Remember, not all guys are automatic car buffs.
The father has been doing intensive computer-related work his entire life and has little time week to week(especially to have picked up auto work it appears), and so relies on the 'good' folks out there in the business of automotive(parts match/replacement salesman, repair/tune expert or mechanic etc, you name it) to know their stuff and perform reliable work. They get paid to do so(arguing over how much is a moot point because how much we all 'make' varies and money is always changing hands, stagnating money = bad economy; right?).
I don't 'necessarily' blame the father, if he was a car buff? Of course, it doesn't appear like he had much if any experience(at least relatively recent) in having to size lugs to a wheel. How many people have lugs go out? I bet the little Civic I'm driving has the original lugs, or replacement chinese, either way they are peeling/flaky and rust coated...hmm, maybe I know who to go see for replacement lugs?
PS: Yes, these folks could have died on the freeway/interstate. She felt the weird handling, heard the sound, father/daughter/mother as well!...just didn't catch it in time. We all have moments of a 'lesson learned'.
Shame on all the Dealers and Parts store sellers that use FEAR to sell "Wheel locks" on a new vehicle.
Sure guys steal and even KILL to get your Roman Chariot Knife Bladed Spinner 22" Chromed wire dubs.....
But WAY MORE money is spent on wheel locks by Honda owners than they ever spend as a group replacing stolen stock wheels.
And the wheel lock spending continues when the Girl has a flat tire two years later and can't find the "key". Ask a tire shop how many of those locks they have to break off in a week.
Sure guys steal and even KILL to get your Roman Chariot Knife Bladed Spinner 22" Chromed wire dubs.....
But WAY MORE money is spent on wheel locks by Honda owners than they ever spend as a group replacing stolen stock wheels.
And the wheel lock spending continues when the Girl has a flat tire two years later and can't find the "key". Ask a tire shop how many of those locks they have to break off in a week.
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Yeah Honda seems to offer a lot of dealer installed accessories. Some of them should be factor installed only and some shouldn't be offered at all. It is kind of dumb. Wheel locks went out of style a long time ago after every car started getting aluminum wheels and they ended up not as uncommon or being worth so much.
Originally Posted By: bigmike
Originally Posted By: Pop_Rivit
It's amazing to see how far off the original topic that posters can pull a thread when they feel their toes have been stepped upon. It's turned from a thread about a wheel coming off a young girls vehicle to a "my car is better than your car" chest thumping contest.
+1 It turned into a fail.
The usual offenders are at it...as usual.
Originally Posted By: Pop_Rivit
It's amazing to see how far off the original topic that posters can pull a thread when they feel their toes have been stepped upon. It's turned from a thread about a wheel coming off a young girls vehicle to a "my car is better than your car" chest thumping contest.
+1 It turned into a fail.
The usual offenders are at it...as usual.
Update: The auto company paid for all repairs, the car is fine and I've even driven it a few times since. I think the employee is gone, too. No names will ever be mentioned here, by the way.
The young lady is still on the factory oil fill, 5,000 miles on the same 'new' engine and around 50% oil life. Teaching her about oil changes, told her to keep the FF in until at least 5,000.
Anyway, figured I'd pull this one up from the grave. Lot's of lessons learned to go around.
The young lady is still on the factory oil fill, 5,000 miles on the same 'new' engine and around 50% oil life. Teaching her about oil changes, told her to keep the FF in until at least 5,000.
Anyway, figured I'd pull this one up from the grave. Lot's of lessons learned to go around.
Originally Posted By: urchin
OK, back on topic.
So does "Daddy" feel at least somewhat responsible for allowing the parts counter monkey to operate on his young daughter's brand new 25k car, just so he could save 30 or 40 bucks?
How is this back on topic?? The topic is that the parts guy put the wrong lug nuts on the vehicle causing the wheel to fall off. How does "Daddy" figure into the equation?
OK, back on topic.
So does "Daddy" feel at least somewhat responsible for allowing the parts counter monkey to operate on his young daughter's brand new 25k car, just so he could save 30 or 40 bucks?
How is this back on topic?? The topic is that the parts guy put the wrong lug nuts on the vehicle causing the wheel to fall off. How does "Daddy" figure into the equation?
^Well, it was her money and her decision anyway, so...they weren't getting dealer lugs originally anyway with the wheel locks. The fam didn't even want them until their fav. shop advised them, PROBABLY in just casual small talk anyway about how 'oh nice rims be sure to protect them in this area' in response to maybe declining the dealer offered lugs, etc...w/e. After the fact, well lets just see if auto store has them instead of driving 15 miles to the dealer again.
I'm glad it was resolved and the company went out of it's way to help the actual victim here. The guy wasn't pushed to make something work, he was all about trusting himself and not seeing or understanding the difference in the kit's thread pitch vs. the dealer lug. It was one employee actually saying, it doesn't appear like we have on for your car, but this guru that works here, oh there he is over there, he knows ALL ABOUT lugs and is the guy to see.
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I'm glad it was resolved and the company went out of it's way to help the actual victim here. The guy wasn't pushed to make something work, he was all about trusting himself and not seeing or understanding the difference in the kit's thread pitch vs. the dealer lug. It was one employee actually saying, it doesn't appear like we have on for your car, but this guru that works here, oh there he is over there, he knows ALL ABOUT lugs and is the guy to see.
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