It's nice that folks like Alex are out there pushing the boundaries of engineering possibilities and passing down this wisdom for generations to come. 🙌
@@TermlessHGW Oh no! Petrolheads having fun in (obviously unsalvageable) cars, making fun, fresh car content and putting it on the internet for us to watch for free, and enjoy. How dare they make such good fun videos for us and not charge us anything! The outrage!
Alex, mate.. I've thoroughly enjoyed your career on UA-cam so far but man, this channel was your best move yet. The humor style, the shenanigans, and the people involved are all top notch. Respect, and much love.
This exact thing happened to me after putting some mud flaps on a mk3 fiesta. Had to take the wheels off to drill the holes. Then took it for a drive and started getting a crazy vibration all through the car shell at about 40-45. When I checked back leftwheel nuts were finger tight. Could have flown off any moment…I will put a bit more effort in with the tire iron next time!
Happened to me as well, except I didnt realize what it was, and when checking on the side of the road the bolts were finger tight so I thought its gotta be something else. Made a right proper fool out of myself at the mechanic when he just bolted them tight ^^.
@@jefforymitchell5697 Still on a lot of cars it does loosen once of twice and you have to retorque it no matter how well it was torqued in the first place.
I don’t write comments often but here we go I guess 😂 Really loving your new channel Alex. I watched car throttle for years and all your build series. And getting bullied for being small! You were the one who got me into cars along side topgear! and into mechanics and currently on my last year as an apprentice! You seem much less restricted on your own channel and doing more of the stuff you love! Keep up the good work I’m looking forward to what you do in the future! Ethan!
Yeahhh - brings back memories. Had a MK2 Cortina way back and my mate and I changed the front nearside wheel. All seemed well until about an hour later in the middle of a large city it came off while making a (speedy) right turn and bounced around a bit before rolling off on a journey of it's own. After my mate did a bit of sprinting and retrieved it, and I recovered all four bolts from the busy road (luckily they came off together) we just stuck it back on and off we went. A valuable lesson learned (tighten your nuts or it could lead to an embarrassing situation - not just in motoring either!)
Definitely need more 'experiments ' with Taylor and Alex together. This and the wheel lock episodes are 2 of my favourites on the channel so far and they are all belters! 😂👌
You 2 actually crack me up. Definitely carry on doing stuff like this for our amusement, always puts a smile on my face and im sure others. Poor old vectra, shamefully i did used to have one and it was the most reliable car ive ever owned, it took abuse all day every day.
Lost a wheel on a 306 van one time at 60mph on the main road.came to a stop. Walked 350yards up the road. Got the wheel in a layby rolled it back . Found the nuts under the wheel cover all tightened up and drove another 50miles home. I changed the flattened brakedisk after 2 months.great car pug 306
I once went to a local 5-star rated independent tyre fitter who replaced 2 new tyres on the front of my van. 5 minutes of driving and the van was shaking badly. Upon returning to the fitter he said I had loosened the bolts (nope) and when that didn't fly, he said they were the wrong wheels for the van (original to the van).
kinda reminding me of how a brand new clutch plate in my dad's old Aygo lasted only a month or two before it completely annhilated all gears bar second. It hadn't gone through anything especially hard compared to the other two which had both lasted about 5 years each even with the clutch riding my dad used to use before that event.
You have to be really careful with tyre fitters, they can often put the wrong size of tyre (wrong height index/the 3rd tyre size value) which causes issues with steering vibration and increased wear on suspension parts. Really need to check carefully or just order your own online
I actually drove to Bristol on a Transit from Durham thinking the knocking sound was a drive shaft. It only started knocking as I passed Doncaster on the way down. Drove the rest the way there. Did my delivery and drove home in Durham. Next day, took it into a garage and turned out somehow, all 4 of my standard wheel studs on my osf wheel was loosened off and the cap but over. It only the locking wheel nut that was tight. That was in a loaded Transit at around 2.8t with a trailer loaded with an old Vauxhall Chevette
When I worked at a garage I had the costume of walking the nuts 'all the way to the end' by hand before tightening them with the pneumatic pistol. Due to lack of communication we once released a car that had it's bolts/nuts tightened only by hand. The guy drove all over the town and came back at the end of the day complaining about some noise coming from the wheel in question and when a colleague of mine checked it he found most of the bolts less than a full turn away from falling off, lol. He tightened them properly and told the owner that there was a bent piece of metal making that noise and that he straightened it up again. It was a miracle that his wheel didn't come loose as he was driving.
One time when I was doing a brake disc change on my own car I threw the wheels back on and then something came up and distracted me from torquing them down properly, next day I then set off on a long journey, bombing down the motorway at 140KPH and starting to feel a wobble in the steering wheel and a strange noise, eventually pulled over and saw the wheel was missing 2 of the 4 wheel bolts and the other two were halfway turned out. Luckily I had a set of 4 security bolts I had just removed from the day before to replace the missing bolts with. Needless to say I made sure they were torqued to FT specs before I took off again 🤣 I shudder to think what would've happened if the wheel came off at 140 on the motorway 🤣
This is why nobody trusts their garage: Not only will they make terrible mistakes and release dangerously flawed cars, they will also lie about it and cheat you.
Loving this new content and I'd love to see more! Baby oil as washer fluid, candles or bicycle lights as headlights, cling-film windshield. The list is endless and the laughs would be too!!!
As this experiment was done on a right hand wheel, it’d be interesting to repeat on the left side as the nuts should unwind themselves much easier. Some older cars and trucks, especially those with centre lock wheels, use left hand threads on that side to prevent unwinding but it’s only an issue if not fully torqued.
My Xtype Jag was dropped off at my house after it's mot. My partner took it to work the next day and brought it straight back. They'd fit new rubber on the front and inner rear bushes. and front hub They hadn't tightened the hub nut up at all, none of the wheel nuts were tightened and they had somehow managed to damage the rear abs cables when fitting the inner bushes. I took it back and they tried to charge me to look at what they'd not done and then had a go at me saying it was my wheel spacers that cause the wheel to come loose and banned me from the garage services and fuel. I'd had the spacers fit for over a year with no issue. South Uist for you.
I had this happen in my Vectra, had a tyre changed and they didn't do up the nuts.. Wondered what the knocking was for a bit until I tightened it all up. Fab vid.
I can answer this one. I picked my 4wd up from a service and the left front was finger tight. At 110km/h it felt strange so I pulled over. They were only just hanging on. Love your work 👍
That line about Kwik-Fit gave me an idea.. Take a mechanically sound car to various garages and see how many of them try to tell you "X part needs replaced" even when you know it doesn't. Let's see how many honest garages there are out there.
My mum and sis-in-law drove 12 miles home in a Mk1 RS2000 lookalike with one loose nut on each wheel (RS alloys), they'd obviously disturbed a wheel thief where they were parked whilst shopping in Sarfend-on Sea ('old aaat yer 'aaaand)
I had the experience in Summer 2020 of wheel nuts on my '55 Chevy Gasser undoing themselves and eventually it spat the right rear wheel off. They were more than finger tight to start with, but obviously not tight enough. Probably didn't help that it has a 600-ish bhp V8. Fortunately the wheel came off when I was only doing about 20mph, so both I and the car lived.
I’ve never under-tightened my wheel nuts but have over done them. Which is really scary when your doing flat out in a 950 fiat uno. ( 95 mph down blackdog hill) I snapped 3 of my 4 nuts going around a easy right hand bend. The fourth snapped as I got out of that car to inspect. It was my O/S front wheel so I was cracked in the four head by the A pillar as my weight shifted 🤦🏻♂️🤤
This is why I don't understand how wheels fall off due to loose nuts, if that happens it means the driver has ignored all the noise and vibration! I had nuts come loose on track, heard the noise, came into the paddock and tightened it - no drama.
I cross threaded two bolts on one of the front wheels on my mk6 golf about two years ago and have been driving with only three bolts so far... Completely forgot about it.. thank you for reminding me!
Omg! This is what happened to me after I had new tyres on my Rover 220 Coupe back in the day. New tyres Saturday, drive from Somerset to Hampshire on the Sunday. 130 miles across Somerset, Wiltshire and Hampshire and on leaving the M27 at Fareham, on the roundabout, my wheel went one way and I went another! 🥺.
This is a good video im currently missing a wheel nut on each of my front wheels some clever clogs somewhere down the line has managed to cross thread or something on one of the studs. And remove the threading
Had something similar happen to one of my cars. I was upgrading the suspension to some nice Bilstein shocks and forgot to tighten the wheels properly, only using an impact gun. It didn't help either that the wheels spacing were 4x98 and my car is 4x100. Anyway when returning home from my test drive I felt the car was kinda wobbly in the back, I let off the gas and then one of my rear wheels popped off. Not fun, not fun at all. My rear brake drum fell into the wheel and it was just sitting there on the wheel. My dad was with me so he lifted up the rear of the car by hand and I installed the 3 bolts we still found and drove home very very slowly.
My dad's old vectra came with a 5 stud spare for a 4 stud hub, only 1 would line up at a time, vauxhall clearly designed the vectra to be driven on 1 nut
Had this myself once. Luckily didn't lose the wheel but had to drive a few mile back as I was up in the moors n didn't have a tyrewrench Only ever lost a tyre after doing a handbrake turn and unfortunately hitting a pothole side on. I hit the deck and saw my tyre roll away. Rim still on the car. Thank the car gods for spare tyres.
Yes. I done this once after changing my clutch. Wasn’t until I drove about 5 miles I suddenly thought did I tighten those nuts up? I hadn’t… same car had a Stella can welded on a hole in the exhaust by a mate, passed two Mots
Happened to me with my First Car, like an idiot I got some alloy wheels (14" steels to 17" alloys) and went around the car tightening them up, completely missing the front left wheel. Luckily i felt the wheel starting to wobble before I got to the motorway... literally a few hundred yards from the slip road. The 3 out of 4 bolts had fell out and was just held in by the nut covers... I learned to never hand tighten all the wheels first and then torque them up.. Do 1 at a time :S
I allready know the answer to this one! I had a broken prop shaft on my company vw caddy for ages that my employer didn't want to pay to fix. So one day the shaking got worse, i mean it was vibrating for months, and then i had winter tyres fitted and it vibrated just the same for a few weeks, right? Then after a particulary bumpy road it started to go from vibration to shaking, so i just kept driving it to make the eployer HAVE to fix it... Well turns out that the lug-nuts had come loose from the constant vibration and that one really bad road. Lost my tyre after a mile. Only my pride and the front disk brake was really hurt as i was going maby 5mph when it happened. The prop shaft was actually fixed after all.
You should have tried it also on the other side. Astra has same handed threads on both sides. This means that the other side tightens it self when driving and the other side loosens it if its finger thigh. Proof of this is when you used reverse the wheel came of.
Soooooo, my dad did this test back in the 60s. After rotating tires he missed the tightening of one tire. It passed him on the highway and bounced off into a farmer's field. Took him hours to find it in the field and get it put back on.
I followed someone in a 3 series in Winchester last night that had a front wheel wobbling like it did with 1 loose wheel nut. How he didn't feel it is unbelievable.
A friend of mine picked up his car after getting the breaks done and did a couple of hundred motorway miles before noticing they had only put one nut on one of the front wheels. Lucky boy!
My son had a service and MOT at a green & yellow-bannered multi-national tyre business branch in Rugeley, Staffs, then drove 120 or so miles to Swansea in South Wales at which point he called me to come and help because there was a strange knocking sound coming from the front. 200 mile round trip with a boot full of tools just to discover finger tight wheel nuts on the left front wheel, but thankfully all still present. Thanks green and yellow multi-national.... Wasn't the first car you **cked up at that branch either!
I thought you left your wrecking cars behind you. But it seems you were the reason I insubbed from car throttle channel. I guess I need to do the same here.
Here's a video suggestion, can you make a MK4 Golf handle at a racetrack? I cured the understeer (sort of) but now at the slightest hint of rain it has snap oversteer. The best suggestion from the forums seems to be to get the estate version or a Bora as the extra weight on the rear axle will keep it in check but that's cheating and I don't want another Golf. The lap times I've seen with R32's on UA-cam are not massively quicker than I've done considering they are 4 wheel drive with more mods and a lot more horsepower, plus there's were in the dry. Mines a PD150 with a remap, a bit of front camber and toe out, 10mm rear wheel spacers, slightly uprated suspension and brakes, I was running Rainsport 3's all round but they were hopeless on a wet Snetterton track, good on wet roads though. The other Mk4 & MK5 golfs there on the day although highly modified were slower than me. The car handles perfectly fine in all conditions on the road so I'll have to throw money into more track time to solve this puzzle myself if it's even doable. Considering everyone seems to think these old 8 valve diesels are legendary and they are very affordable it's a shame nobody has a proven way to make the chassis work properly. All the Officially Gassed and LLF cars are straight line heros which don't interest me, I'm a corner man. You can use my car if you need too, it's well seviced so should be able to take plenty more abuse.
I purchased some alloys from Exmouth once, had thr guys fit them on site, got onto m5 and had extreme wheel wobble, pulled over to find the front wheels were hardly even on a thread.....sketchy
A couple I know danced Samba with a BMW 3 Cabriolet after tighten the wheels with a cheap battery drill, so I gave them a number to at BMW M3 builder that solved it...
Please (well they are a bit expensive) do a electric turbo conversion (the actual working ones :) to a "smallish" car with a "smallish" engine but it has to have a newer ECU so at least it can adjust a bit...
I had a Vectra like this.Very efficient and reliable car... well until it brake. So i sold it the way it was ang get myself a BMW E60, because its a premium car and it won't break right... right??!
I drove with one wheel nut many moons ago unwittingly I changed wheels and the wheel nuts weren't big enough so the only thing holding the wheels on was the locking nut very sketchy
ive experienced the feeling of loose/hand tight wheel nuts. the vibration was horrible yet being in a rush i put off having a look. got to work, gave the wheel a push and it wobbled 😶
It's nice that folks like Alex are out there pushing the boundaries of engineering possibilities and passing down this wisdom for generations to come. 🙌
I feel exactly the opposite of what you said. His content is going down hill. Fast too.
@@TermlessHGW you say that whilst he averages 100-200k views a video
You guys should do a collab...
@@TermlessHGW Oh no! Petrolheads having fun in (obviously unsalvageable) cars, making fun, fresh car content and putting it on the internet for us to watch for free, and enjoy. How dare they make such good fun videos for us and not charge us anything! The outrage!
Haha exactly my thought! 😂😂😂
I never thought I'd say this, but feeling sorry for that poor Vectra. This is compelling to watch... morbid curiosity kicks in😂😂
"I've been a reliable, boring car for all my life. Why do you torture me now like this?"
Vectras are nice little cars we've had 2, quicker then you expect
Should have been a Chrysler Pt cruiser all car guys hate them
@@focusedford2302 you've got to be joking 🤣 nice? quicker than you expect? have you ever been in any other car?
@@MyRegardsToTheDodo A
Alex, mate.. I've thoroughly enjoyed your career on UA-cam so far but man, this channel was your best move yet.
The humor style, the shenanigans, and the people involved are all top notch.
Respect, and much love.
Just the question I needed answering! 😂 Love it
love your vids dude
The best Driving Instructor on UA-cam
yess ur vids are amazing
Ashley, the angel on the right shoulder, apparently watches Alex, the demon on the left. 🤣
@@g.w.customcreations3534 I need some balance in my life!
This exact thing happened to me after putting some mud flaps on a mk3 fiesta. Had to take the wheels off to drill the holes. Then took it for a drive and started getting a crazy vibration all through the car shell at about 40-45. When I checked back leftwheel nuts were finger tight. Could have flown off any moment…I will put a bit more effort in with the tire iron next time!
Maybe use a torque wrench next time and torque them to spec
Happened to me as well, except I didnt realize what it was, and when checking on the side of the road the bolts were finger tight so I thought its gotta be something else. Made a right proper fool out of myself at the mechanic when he just bolted them tight ^^.
If you used a tire iron to tighten the the wheel nuts, I can understand your problems...
@@mike_oe nah was a torque wrench, but i used the manufacturer recommended torque which is awfully loose. Must have loosened a bit afterwards.
@@jefforymitchell5697
Still on a lot of cars it does loosen once of twice and you have to retorque it no matter how well it was torqued in the first place.
I don’t write comments often but here we go I guess 😂
Really loving your new channel Alex. I watched car throttle for years and all your build series. And getting bullied for being small! You were the one who got me into cars along side topgear! and into mechanics and currently on my last year as an apprentice! You seem much less restricted on your own channel and doing more of the stuff you love! Keep up the good work I’m looking forward to what you do in the future!
Ethan!
Tyler is the friend we all need, full of fun and laughter 😀
Taylor*
Yeahhh - brings back memories. Had a MK2 Cortina way back and my mate and I changed the front nearside wheel. All seemed well until about an hour later in the middle of a large city it came off while making a (speedy) right turn and bounced around a bit before rolling off on a journey of it's own. After my mate did a bit of sprinting and retrieved it, and I recovered all four bolts from the busy road (luckily they came off together) we just stuck it back on and off we went. A valuable lesson learned (tighten your nuts or it could lead to an embarrassing situation - not just in motoring either!)
Autoalex, conducting the experiments we never considered needed to be done and thankfully we don’t have to now you’ve done them anyway!
*caugh* Garage54 *caugh*
@@MegaSockenschuss those guys are above and beyond
Definitely need more 'experiments ' with Taylor and Alex together. This and the wheel lock episodes are 2 of my favourites on the channel so far and they are all belters! 😂👌
20 years ago I'd find this amusing, today I feel sorry for that Vectra.
I have had wheels come loose on me while doing 120kph in the highway. This video brought scary memories back
You 2 actually crack me up. Definitely carry on doing stuff like this for our amusement, always puts a smile on my face and im sure others. Poor old vectra, shamefully i did used to have one and it was the most reliable car ive ever owned, it took abuse all day every day.
I absolutely love your collabs with Taylor. Keep them coming!
Lost a wheel on a 306 van one time at 60mph on the main road.came to a stop. Walked 350yards up the road. Got the wheel in a layby rolled it back . Found the nuts under the wheel cover all tightened up and drove another 50miles home. I changed the flattened brakedisk after 2 months.great car pug 306
I once went to a local 5-star rated independent tyre fitter who replaced 2 new tyres on the front of my van. 5 minutes of driving and the van was shaking badly. Upon returning to the fitter he said I had loosened the bolts (nope) and when that didn't fly, he said they were the wrong wheels for the van (original to the van).
kinda reminding me of how a brand new clutch plate in my dad's old Aygo lasted only a month or two before it completely annhilated all gears bar second. It hadn't gone through anything especially hard compared to the other two which had both lasted about 5 years each even with the clutch riding my dad used to use before that event.
You have to be really careful with tyre fitters, they can often put the wrong size of tyre (wrong height index/the 3rd tyre size value) which causes issues with steering vibration and increased wear on suspension parts. Really need to check carefully or just order your own online
I actually drove to Bristol on a Transit from Durham thinking the knocking sound was a drive shaft. It only started knocking as I passed Doncaster on the way down. Drove the rest the way there. Did my delivery and drove home in Durham. Next day, took it into a garage and turned out somehow, all 4 of my standard wheel studs on my osf wheel was loosened off and the cap but over. It only the locking wheel nut that was tight. That was in a loaded Transit at around 2.8t with a trailer loaded with an old Vauxhall Chevette
When I worked at a garage I had the costume of walking the nuts 'all the way to the end' by hand before tightening them with the pneumatic pistol. Due to lack of communication we once released a car that had it's bolts/nuts tightened only by hand. The guy drove all over the town and came back at the end of the day complaining about some noise coming from the wheel in question and when a colleague of mine checked it he found most of the bolts less than a full turn away from falling off, lol.
He tightened them properly and told the owner that there was a bent piece of metal making that noise and that he straightened it up again. It was a miracle that his wheel didn't come loose as he was driving.
One time when I was doing a brake disc change on my own car I threw the wheels back on and then something came up and distracted me from torquing them down properly, next day I then set off on a long journey, bombing down the motorway at 140KPH and starting to feel a wobble in the steering wheel and a strange noise, eventually pulled over and saw the wheel was missing 2 of the 4 wheel bolts and the other two were halfway turned out. Luckily I had a set of 4 security bolts I had just removed from the day before to replace the missing bolts with. Needless to say I made sure they were torqued to FT specs before I took off again 🤣
I shudder to think what would've happened if the wheel came off at 140 on the motorway 🤣
This is why nobody trusts their garage: Not only will they make terrible mistakes and release dangerously flawed cars, they will also lie about it and cheat you.
Loving Taylor being apart of these video really suits the channel!
The new versions of Alex doing stuff is cool, variety an stuff 👌
I like these, you're making Donut Media type of video's I've noticed. Keep up the good work Alex! 😊
Love your new UA-cam format. Tyler is the perfect crazy companion to you. 😂😂😂
Loving this new content and I'd love to see more! Baby oil as washer fluid, candles or bicycle lights as headlights, cling-film windshield. The list is endless and the laughs would be too!!!
As this experiment was done on a right hand wheel, it’d be interesting to repeat on the left side as the nuts should unwind themselves much easier. Some older cars and trucks, especially those with centre lock wheels, use left hand threads on that side to prevent unwinding but it’s only an issue if not fully torqued.
We love alekzzzz ❤ NEXT video.. Can you brake with milk instead of brake fluid.
This needs to be done! lol
My Xtype Jag was dropped off at my house after it's mot. My partner took it to work the next day and brought it straight back. They'd fit new rubber on the front and inner rear bushes. and front hub They hadn't tightened the hub nut up at all, none of the wheel nuts were tightened and they had somehow managed to damage the rear abs cables when fitting the inner bushes. I took it back and they tried to charge me to look at what they'd not done and then had a go at me saying it was my wheel spacers that cause the wheel to come loose and banned me from the garage services and fuel. I'd had the spacers fit for over a year with no issue. South Uist for you.
I had this happen in my Vectra, had a tyre changed and they didn't do up the nuts.. Wondered what the knocking was for a bit until I tightened it all up. Fab vid.
I know for a fact you can drive on hand tightened lug nuts. I did a 400 mile trip and stoped every 20 miles to tighten them back up
I can answer this one. I picked my 4wd up from a service and the left front was finger tight. At 110km/h it felt strange so I pulled over. They were only just hanging on. Love your work 👍
That line about Kwik-Fit gave me an idea.. Take a mechanically sound car to various garages and see how many of them try to tell you "X part needs replaced" even when you know it doesn't. Let's see how many honest garages there are out there.
Rouge Traders style.
That or take this car to the garage and see what they quote 😂
My mum and sis-in-law drove 12 miles home in a Mk1 RS2000 lookalike with one loose nut on each wheel (RS alloys), they'd obviously disturbed a wheel thief where they were parked whilst shopping in Sarfend-on Sea ('old aaat yer 'aaaand)
I've wondered and had angst about loose wheel nuts all my life. Great video, thanks!
I had the experience in Summer 2020 of wheel nuts on my '55 Chevy Gasser undoing themselves and eventually it spat the right rear wheel off. They were more than finger tight to start with, but obviously not tight enough.
Probably didn't help that it has a 600-ish bhp V8.
Fortunately the wheel came off when I was only doing about 20mph, so both I and the car lived.
These vids are 10/10 keep them coming bro
Got the email about the autoalex petrolheart collab. Congrats man! Also that poor Vectra
I’ve never under-tightened my wheel nuts but have over done them. Which is really scary when your doing flat out in a 950 fiat uno. ( 95 mph down blackdog hill) I snapped 3 of my 4 nuts going around a easy right hand bend. The fourth snapped as I got out of that car to inspect. It was my O/S front wheel so I was cracked in the four head by the A pillar as my weight shifted 🤦🏻♂️🤤
This is why I don't understand how wheels fall off due to loose nuts, if that happens it means the driver has ignored all the noise and vibration! I had nuts come loose on track, heard the noise, came into the paddock and tightened it - no drama.
I cross threaded two bolts on one of the front wheels on my mk6 golf about two years ago and have been driving with only three bolts so far... Completely forgot about it.. thank you for reminding me!
I discovered this on my first track day and not tightening the wheel nuts, made one nasty noise, simple fix and no wheel off luckily.
Both a barrel of laughs like my childhood favourite top gear 🎉 love it
Do really love you and all your content Alex. But the big man is the mate we all want💪🏼💪🏼👊🏻.
Oh man I'm loving these videos..
what's the minimum number of wheels you need on a car? can you still drive with no tyres? all important questions
2, but you may need a LSD: ua-cam.com/video/Ii8d0F_Bd84/v-deo.html
Omg! This is what happened to me after I had new tyres on my Rover 220 Coupe back in the day. New tyres Saturday, drive from Somerset to Hampshire on the Sunday. 130 miles across Somerset, Wiltshire and Hampshire and on leaving the M27 at Fareham, on the roundabout, my wheel went one way and I went another! 🥺.
This is a good video im currently missing a wheel nut on each of my front wheels some clever clogs somewhere down the line has managed to cross thread or something on one of the studs. And remove the threading
Love the uncontrollable laughter!! Great!!!
Had something similar happen to one of my cars. I was upgrading the suspension to some nice Bilstein shocks and forgot to tighten the wheels properly, only using an impact gun. It didn't help either that the wheels spacing were 4x98 and my car is 4x100. Anyway when returning home from my test drive I felt the car was kinda wobbly in the back, I let off the gas and then one of my rear wheels popped off. Not fun, not fun at all. My rear brake drum fell into the wheel and it was just sitting there on the wheel.
My dad was with me so he lifted up the rear of the car by hand and I installed the 3 bolts we still found and drove home very very slowly.
Im sorry, 5:46 was when I lost it with laughter. "I cant see whats happened..."
This is the quality content I subbed for
I feel enlightened. Thanks guys.
Alex and Taylor becoming scientist at testing things which people's "What if" ideas about cars.
For Science!
haven't laughed this hard in year, just keep replaying the part when the wheel fell off 🤣🤣
I love you both doing videos together
My dad's old vectra came with a 5 stud spare for a 4 stud hub, only 1 would line up at a time, vauxhall clearly designed the vectra to be driven on 1 nut
Had this myself once. Luckily didn't lose the wheel but had to drive a few mile back as I was up in the moors n didn't have a tyrewrench
Only ever lost a tyre after doing a handbrake turn and unfortunately hitting a pothole side on. I hit the deck and saw my tyre roll away. Rim still on the car. Thank the car gods for spare tyres.
Hey Alex. Can you test replacement fluid for coolant. Like using rain water, river water, sea water, etc. Thanks
You two are awesome! Enjoying your video's!
Yes. I done this once after changing my clutch. Wasn’t until I drove about 5 miles I suddenly thought did I tighten those nuts up? I hadn’t… same car had a Stella can welded on a hole in the exhaust by a mate, passed two Mots
This was cool you should do one about using the wrong type of lugs on after market wheels the same thing happens 😅
Loving this content so much. Keep it up Alex.....but noone tell Jack or Ethan he has a new dream team lol
Happened to me with my First Car, like an idiot I got some alloy wheels (14" steels to 17" alloys) and went around the car tightening them up, completely missing the front left wheel.
Luckily i felt the wheel starting to wobble before I got to the motorway... literally a few hundred yards from the slip road.
The 3 out of 4 bolts had fell out and was just held in by the nut covers...
I learned to never hand tighten all the wheels first and then torque them up.. Do 1 at a time :S
I was surprised how 1 wheel nut even worked 😂 I was waiting for the hub and the wheel to spin entirely out of sync lol
I allready know the answer to this one!
I had a broken prop shaft on my company vw caddy for ages that my employer didn't want to pay to fix.
So one day the shaking got worse, i mean it was vibrating for months, and then i had winter tyres fitted and it vibrated just the same for a few weeks, right?
Then after a particulary bumpy road it started to go from vibration to shaking, so i just kept driving it to make the eployer HAVE to fix it...
Well turns out that the lug-nuts had come loose from the constant vibration and that one really bad road.
Lost my tyre after a mile.
Only my pride and the front disk brake was really hurt as i was going maby 5mph when it happened.
The prop shaft was actually fixed after all.
How far can you drive with a trolley jack in place of a wheel?
Alex is answering all my car video needs rn and I love it!
Hi Alex, I always wanted to know how it is to drive with 4 spacesavers! Can you do that for me please????
You should have tried it also on the other side. Astra has same handed threads on both sides. This means that the other side tightens it self when driving and the other side loosens it if its finger thigh. Proof of this is when you used reverse the wheel came of.
Soooooo, my dad did this test back in the 60s. After rotating tires he missed the tightening of one tire. It passed him on the highway and bounced off into a farmer's field. Took him hours to find it in the field and get it put back on.
I know it’s been done but be good to watch you lot do it but air con or window down fuel efficiency test
Did this on a 69 VW Beetle some years ago, had to run a mile home to fetch a wheel brace haha
I followed someone in a 3 series in Winchester last night that had a front wheel wobbling like it did with 1 loose wheel nut. How he didn't feel it is unbelievable.
Hitting the kerb every lap is so funny 😂😂😂😂
can you test sugar in petrol tank once you're done with it? that would be very interesting, i wonder how long will engine last and how it will behave
you should try different fluids in the brake lines
Get on camera dynamics between the two of you. Many more lads - great content
Last video was 10/10 too
Love the new direction Alex, carwho?!
A friend of mine picked up his car after getting the breaks done and did a couple of hundred motorway miles before noticing they had only put one nut on one of the front wheels. Lucky boy!
Love the new channel Alex, and I hate to do this to you, but that's a Euro car mate, those are wheel BOLTS ;)
My son had a service and MOT at a green & yellow-bannered multi-national tyre business branch in Rugeley, Staffs, then drove 120 or so miles to Swansea in South Wales at which point he called me to come and help because there was a strange knocking sound coming from the front. 200 mile round trip with a boot full of tools just to discover finger tight wheel nuts on the left front wheel, but thankfully all still present. Thanks green and yellow multi-national.... Wasn't the first car you **cked up at that branch either!
“Oh I’ll get to work” immediately starts to saw the dash 😂
I thought you left your wrecking cars behind you. But it seems you were the reason I insubbed from car throttle channel. I guess I need to do the same here.
I had a wheel come off once,Kenny Rogers was playing on the radio.”you pick a fine time to leave me loose wheel(Lucile).”
Alex and Tyler putting themselves at risk for our safety on the roads is a national service✋
I love this channel 😂
Here's a video suggestion, can you make a MK4 Golf handle at a racetrack? I cured the understeer (sort of) but now at the slightest hint of rain it has snap oversteer. The best suggestion from the forums seems to be to get the estate version or a Bora as the extra weight on the rear axle will keep it in check but that's cheating and I don't want another Golf. The lap times I've seen with R32's on UA-cam are not massively quicker than I've done considering they are 4 wheel drive with more mods and a lot more horsepower, plus there's were in the dry. Mines a PD150 with a remap, a bit of front camber and toe out, 10mm rear wheel spacers, slightly uprated suspension and brakes, I was running Rainsport 3's all round but they were hopeless on a wet Snetterton track, good on wet roads though. The other Mk4 & MK5 golfs there on the day although highly modified were slower than me. The car handles perfectly fine in all conditions on the road so I'll have to throw money into more track time to solve this puzzle myself if it's even doable. Considering everyone seems to think these old 8 valve diesels are legendary and they are very affordable it's a shame nobody has a proven way to make the chassis work properly. All the Officially Gassed and LLF cars are straight line heros which don't interest me, I'm a corner man. You can use my car if you need too, it's well seviced so should be able to take plenty more abuse.
Another entertaining video!
Again laughing so hard keep it up Alex
Love it , "Safety First a smashed windscreen" 😂😂
I purchased some alloys from Exmouth once, had thr guys fit them on site, got onto m5 and had extreme wheel wobble, pulled over to find the front wheels were hardly even on a thread.....sketchy
A couple I know danced Samba with a BMW 3 Cabriolet after tighten the wheels with a cheap battery drill, so I gave them a number to at BMW M3 builder that solved it...
Please (well they are a bit expensive) do a electric turbo conversion (the actual working ones :) to a "smallish" car with a "smallish" engine but it has to have a newer ECU so at least it can adjust a bit...
I had a Vectra like this.Very efficient and reliable car... well until it brake. So i sold it the way it was ang get myself a BMW E60, because its a premium car and it won't break right... right??!
2:36 Who's Lancer is that parked in the background?? Looks nice mate!
I feel like it might last longer with Studs and Nuts as opposed to Bolts? Food for thought
Just put a new set of alloys on my car today and realised I needed a torque wrench, and had this same thought, weird timing haha
MORE OF THIS VIBE!!!! CREASING 🤣😂
Well, my car has those lugnuts that have the hole in them, I reckon that would hold the wheel in place a bit longer
I drove with one wheel nut many moons ago unwittingly I changed wheels and the wheel nuts weren't big enough so the only thing holding the wheels on was the locking nut very sketchy
ive experienced the feeling of loose/hand tight wheel nuts. the vibration was horrible yet being in a rush i put off having a look. got to work, gave the wheel a push and it wobbled 😶
The drivers side wheel would tighten as you go forward, but passenger side would loosen?
Lol this quickly turned into Can you drive with no lug nuts! haha