A new meaning to driving the wheels off!
 

http://www.teamjamoto.com/dixeregionpage.htm#v8301600

Does anyone know what happened?

no idea what happened but i just got my morning giggles

Hard to watch...that must of hurt sooooo bad ... car ... guy ... any vestige of self respect .... not to mention the total and complete public humiliation. Ouchhh!

Wow... he must have REALLY pissed off one of the techs...

Gotta be staged IMO!

How do ALL 4 wheels, ALL lugs (5 per wheel) come off at the same time?

Hmmmm.......

Entertaining though;)

All 4 wheels at once? somebody forgot to tighten their lugs.

Ouch! That was really painful to watch. Especially since it was a nice car too.

Looks like the bolts broke off.

+1 No way did that just randomly happen.

man that blows.

sombody doesn't like him

FD so fast the wheels fly off!
 

http://www.teamjamoto.com/dixeregionpage.htm

Ok, or maybe someone forgot to tighten a thing or two, still sucks.

i bet someone is in big trouble for that!

-Steakboy

repost..............

never saw, it that was helarious and sad.

thats tragic. I almost can't believe it

that just plain nuts.......

NO! That's just plain NO nuts :yelrotflm

That poor R1....

omg, that was PAINFUL to watch!

it seems too random & unlikely to happen that way, but then again - who would actually ok "staging" that?? In a clean looking 7, no less. I could see it being staged if it were a crossfire . . .

i think jedi54 had something to do with this. someone should nerf his jedi powers.

I wonder how much of the suspension and underside of the car is damage. Surely his exhaust system is done for.

still sucks even if a repost!

Good thing he remembered to set the E-Brake before he got out of the car to inspect! :) ;)

***waves hand before Alfy***

I was mistaken. Jedi had Nothing to do with that

I was thinking the same thing. Exhuast is hot, control arms probably took a bit of a beating, and possibly even those discs are damaged.

On a side note:
It learns to torque the lug nuts or it gets the hose!
(insert Silence of the Lambs pic here)

answer to why it happened here:

https://www.rx8club.com/showpost.php...6&postcount=26

I'm just glad the car's ok!

He's lucky that happened right off the line and not after he had some speed built up... God, can you imagine how tragic it would have been if that happened during a hard turn?

makes perfect sense. the older enkei wheels required special lug nuts that had to be purchased from enkei to properly hold the wheels, as the hole where the lug goes is only so deep at a larger diameter, and then narrows down to maybe 1/8 of an inch or so larger than the actual stud.

wow

that was the cleanest r2(95=ultra rare) out there! the ONLY thing wrong with the car WAS some rock chips on the left front quarter and the fading wing. fritz is an awesome auto guy and solid driver. the wheels came off due to being sold the wrong size by accident. a 1/2-20 will screw down on the 12x125 stud and tourqe even sometimes however it WILL NOT handle driving force loads as seen. That is exactly what happened to him. the damage now is two front fenders and some adjustment to the rear quarters at a competent body shop. bummer!

*oops* oh well too late but it suck for him... at least it wasnt worse huh?:Eyecrazy: