yea that is crazy, I saw a drunk guy in a srt4 once take a turn to fast (hit the curb) and break the wheel from the hub and the tire went flying a half a block away...almost into a coffee shop window.
Those wheels are so stupid... My brother has them on his stupid low rider... The way they put them on is with a lead hammer:eek4: The first time i saw it i was thinking to myself this is a really bad idea
Look there you are, SRT 4's are a joke and so are those who drive them Sad thing is I have seen this more than once out of an SRT4
yep..if you look close..thats me, not a pole with a green tank and carpi's. :laugh:I don't remember you being their???
I would take that wheel and post it on craigslist as anonymous... And then kill the guy who claims it.
He found out who the owner was already. Most of those knock off/dayton style wheels are not street legal for this reason. This is more common than you think. My uncle (or something, my mom's cousin's husband?) was killed by a semi wheel that wasn't properly torqued on. I was almost hit by a wheel that came off a u-haul trailer a few years ago myself. And then when I was in a side impact my wheel flew about 1/8 of a mile down the road. thankfully it didn't hit anything. And at auto-x yesterday someone's wheel seized up and would have come off had they not stopped.
i assume he didnt tighten the wheel enough. those 100 spoke rims dont have lugs. he was probably too retarded and only hand tightened them like i see a lot of lowrider guys do.
My grandparents were in heavy traffic some years back. My Grandma pointed at the rear wheel on the vehicle in front of them and said, "That wheel sure looks wobbly." The second she finished her sentence the wheel came off the vehicle which then rolled over it. When the car/truck/whatever (this was a long time ago so I don't remember which) rolled off the wheel the compression rebound bshot it up into the air. It disappeared above the roof/windshield line of the car with my Grandpa yelling, "Where'd it go!?" :eek4: It came down on the hood of the car next to them destroying the engine/front end (but lucky for the passengers!)
I almost had the same thing happen to me. I was leaving Des Moines (always a good thing), when I got passed by a pimp. As he went by, I saw his left front wheel bouncing wildly. I backed off and moved over, leaving plenty of room. Ten seconds later, when his wheel went flying and his car ground to a halt (disc brakes and asphalt FTW), I drove merrily by. Flying wheels are FTL...
