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Originally Posted by GoinAllTheWay
You too? Man, several of my lugnuts where either loose or missing a few days after I had new tires put on my car there. I layed into the manager some kind of fierce.
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Here's my basic story.
-New tires all around
-retorqued the lugnuts around 300 km after installation (to 100 ft-lbs, but a torque wrench won't tell you if the torque is too high)
-rear wheel falls off going 120 km/h on hwy 3 at @11pm around christmas time (lugs sheared off & nuts still on other half) Good spark show though.
-spent christmas vacation fixing truck and finding identical replacement wheel
The wheel bounced over both oncoming lanes of traffic, to land in a farmers field nearly 1km away. It ran into irrigation pipe and had bent the middle in about 2m. It would have hit a farm house if it wasn't for the pipe.
Store didn't comment on it, nothing happened with it. Not worth the time or cash to further pursue it.