What's that noise? AHHH crup!

[Rosco the Iroc]

Driving to work in my Z71, come up to a light just as I'm about the stop I hear this horrendous grinding like my diff locked and the tire dragging. I was able to swing into a parking space and stop as I hear the tire blow. WTFO
I look and crawl under and realize me fucking rim split!


Found that the top caliper bracket bolt backed out. (MIA) Though not much, the 3/16th it was scored from the loose brake caliper weakened the rim to spit. I hated working auto parts but knowing the ins and outs got me going 2 hrs later and $180 for rim, bolts and a shop to mount the tire that thankfully lived. The blow out was the rim spitting.
Damm from 1st noise to boom 4-10 sec? Fuck me, I glad it didn't go 4 min sooner was I was running down the back roads at speed or I might of ended up posting this though some hospitals wifi. I just took the truck down to Va Beach last weekend. That would of sucked on the CBBT.

[Akasa]

Sounds like luck was with you!

[XCashier]

Sorry you had the blowout and rim damage, but I'm glad you were able to get to a safe place and weren't hurt.

[Catwoman2965]

Yes, glad you had it happen in a "good" spot. LIke when my last transmission blew up; NOT on my way home from work at 10pm, and NOT on my way into my other job on the highway, but as I was going down the street my office is on, it made a horrible buzzing noise, but I was able to get it over to the curb.

[Minflick]

I can only imagine what the noise was like, because I had a tire go flat and the sidewalls disintegrate one drive home from work, and that noise was bad enough! Big frightening roar! But a metal rim must have been several factors louder...

[sirwired]

Yeah, the factory torque specs are very important for caliper bolts, and I always use blue Loc-Tite on those things too.

[Nunavut Pants]

That is both better, and worse, than some other failures I have seen (on YouTube). Especially the one where the 3rd-gen Mazda RX-7 apparently doesn't torque his lug nuts at all before heading onto the track. All four wheels depart the car at basically the same time, fortunately while the car is at relatively low speed.

Hopefully the other damage is limited. I saw a sporty car (an old one with lots of miles and wear) that had a front spindle shear off the strut. The wheel, tire, hub, and brake all bounced around in the wheel well for a while before they bounced along their merry way. Definitely did some sheet-metal damage...

[dalesys]

.... All four wheels depart the car at basically the same time...

Happened to a hot-rodder at my high school... He was making a pass at all the girls waiting for buses, when he hit a speed bump...


Some good buddies, best friends and ol' pals had removed all his lugnuts!

[Crossbow]

I had to check your location, Rosco. The shop where I take my Toyota for general work had a wheel in exactly the same condition sitting there. Completely threw me off for a few minutes...

That one came off a Jaguar, though.

[protege]

LIke when my last transmission blew up; NOT on my way home from work at 10pm, and NOT on my way into my other job on the highway, but as I was going down the street my office is on, it made a horrible buzzing noise, but I was able to get it over to the curb.

Could have been worse. Several years back, my dad had a car blow a gasket inside of the Liberty Tunnels. He'd driven across town to swap cars with my mom. On the way back, the gasket blew. Not exactly what you want...when you're sitting in the middle of the outbound tunnel, during rush hour. I'm sure those commuters were pissed, but he did get his name on the radio, and a free push from the city