hopeless wanderer
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Bloody hell.. Glad your safe.
What caused that?
No they d0n't undo themselves. I've had a near miss twice in my life. Both times I heard a rumbling noise which alerted me to the problem. If the nuts are stiff but not done right up one can wear the wheel.
Glad to see you got out of it OK.Happily trundling along at 70mph in the middle lane and the front drivers wheel comes off .
Steering is fine and manage to steer onto the hard shoulder.
Really pissed up the plans but it's nice to be alive and well.
See attached pic of what happens when you use your disc as a wheel.
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Glad to see you got out of it OK.
I had a wheel drop off on the A3 on the way to a bit of green laning, in my case it was the bearing breaking up and overheating there was no hard shoulder where it happened but there was quite an area in the middle up against the central reservation. The wheel flying off made a mess of the wing, I was amazed I was still able to steer to the middle. The disc looks flat at the bottom but it had just melted the tarmac. The convoy had a series one LR who's max speed was 50mph, so slower than you. My disc suffered no damage but it was on tarmac were you on concrete?
Three wheels on my wagon.
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Bad enough when you get a tyre blow out like I did. But a wheel off. But of course having the centre viscous coupling, look on the bright side, you still had four wheel drive.
Where were you when it happened - where are you now?
Glad that didn't end up worse. Was there any warning?
I too had a tyre go at 70 on the M62. Fortunately a rear so I wondered what a front going would be like. I was amazed how well behaved the truck was.