I made a HUGE mistake. This could have been serious.
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- Опубліковано 6 тра 2024
- Ashamed of myself I am. This was a bad mistake and we're lucky it didn't lead to a serious incident. What else has been happening to our 2006 Daihatsu Charade L251?
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It's easy to do, especially if you're not feeling 100%, or you're distracted by interruptions. A trick I use, is to keep a marker in my pocket and when I torque a fastener to its final torque, I mark it. A quick scan of all the bolts at the end of a 5-interruption, 2-day job to make sure all the bolts are marked will help you sleep better at night.
The person who doesn't make mistakes doesn't do anything. I'm pretty sure you won't do that again Ian, it'll make you a better amateur mechanic in the long run. No harm done.
I think it's unacceptable actually.
No, you're right.
There's not a person on this planet that doesn't make mistakes
You're only human. At least you caught it in time, otherwise you'd have had another 3 wheeler in your collection. Keep up the good work
I work at JCB and as I also do work on my car I have one major rule: Make sure that you finish a job and not allow to get distracted and even if someone asks for help halfway through a job, say I'm busy and will only help after I complete my task - whatever that is. I did my brakes on my car and made sure I checked, double checked and torque marked every bolt after wards - like I do at work and previous job as electrician.
A lesson learned ,no harm done and very noble of you to express your humilty Ian.
Fair play for being so transparent, everyone makes mistakes! Don't let this put you off doing your own tinkering. When I'm reassembling something I literally write out all the bolts/steps of things to tighten, tick them off when done and again when checked, and it doesn't go until everything has 2 ticks against it! Slows everything down and drives friends mad but better safe than sorry.
Some 35 years ago, at age 20 I changed the front pads on my girlfriend’s car. I got distracted after lowering the jack and forgot to tighten the wheel nuts properly 🙄 Fortunately she only got a mile or so down the road before she returned and questioned the developing knocking noise from the front as the wheel wobbled about. Lesson learned - don’t walk away from a job unless you’re at an obvious interruption point.
Yes, I've done exactly the same thing in the past!
Humble video, glad all family Hub Nut and Chemmy are safe and well. Hope you're feeling better soon Ian
I'll always remember a legendary quote from an NFL coach many years ago ." A defeat is not a defeat if you learn something from it " and your so lucky to have a partner who is totally supportive. As a fellow " home mechanic " I feel your pain.
As I get older, I have been using checklists more and more. Our heads get so full of life that it doesn't hurt to just run down a list. We all have made some mistakes, some quite scary.
Once, many years ago, I had been working on the front brakes on my motorcycle, probably checking pads and greasing sliders (twin disc set-up). Went for a ride afterwards, and about 30 miles later I could hear a clanging sound from the front end. Stopped in a layby and was shocked to find that one of the calipers was completely free of the fork leg, dangling around on the end of the brake hose, and was knocking against the fork leg - I'd not only forgotten to tighten up the bolts at all, and I'd obviously not torqued them! Miraculously the bolts hadn't dropped out of the caliper itself, they'd only unscrewed themselves from the fork legs, so I used the bike's toolkit to put the caliper back on (on the other side the bolts were still in, but not much more than finger tight) then rode home VERY carefully. First time to do anything so stupid as that, and ever since then I double check ALL fasteners - I check once, then I go for a cuppa, then come back and check it all again.
My excuse? I think I got distracted by someone during reassembly.
Hubnut forgets the hubnuts. So easily done Ian but salute you for calling yourself out on it. Great that you are all safe and good reminder to all us home mechanics to
doublecheck everything
The Ford Dealership did not tighten the bearing bolts on our mkIII Cortina (after replacing a wheel stud that they broke} when I was a kid. A light tick turned into clonk then a clank, my mum stopped the car and I found the wheel was loose and it was not the wheel bolts. Fortunately there was a small garage across the road, they pulled it apart and found all 4 bolts almost ready to come out as well as some locking tabs that had not been bent back into place that were meant to hold the bolts.. The thing about motoring in the 70s was that it was far easier to find repair shops along the way.
Dont beat yourself up about it Ian, none of us can honestly say we havent made a mistake at some point. At least nobody has been hurt.
I know they say "The man who never made a mistake never made anything," but you really don't want to make THAT sort of mistake!
I set myself on fire on two occasions in the mid 70's working on my MK3 Cortina and there wasn't even a naked flame, but both times I was wearing brown cords . Get rid of yours Ian they are bad luck.
If you don't make a mistake, you never learn .
Don't be too hard on yourself Ian, everyone makes mistakes, well done to Carly on taking her car to the garage , great call on her part, glad it's sorted out now, more people should maintain older cars more, the more of these older cars we can keep on the road the better, I'm dreading the day I have to run some of the modern rubbish they've put out in the last 15 years or so, some cars are awful
Never work when your brain is foggy: and remember this - "Trust no-one's work but your own and even then, double check it." I'm just pleased that everyone is okay and no harm has come to anyone.
In most cases it should be "trust nobody's work, especially your own" 🤣
My late father always told me - never take risks with brakes and steering. Wise words that I have followed ever since. I never work on anything when feeling poorly (which is sadly rather a lot these days due to diabetes and heart disease). I am glad you are a bit better and all is well despite a near miss.
In my case, it was my mother who said that to me - and I stick to that to this day, forty-odd years later. There is very little that stands between you and oblivion on a motor car. Meanwhile, I hope you can manage your health to have better days.
Fair play for admitting it on camera, many wouldn't! Ive done similar things such as forgetting to torque up wheel bolts and then wondering what the knocking noise is. I've come to the conclusion that i should not work on my cars when ill, hungover or just not feeling with it.
Thank goodness everyone was okay. Ian, it takes courage to admit to one's mistakes, particularly in so public a forum. Your experience will, obviously, impact the way you work on cars in the future and that's good. But also, you sharing your story will, I'm sure, help many others in ensuring that they check, and double check, the work on their own cars. Top video, get well soon. Regards, Mark.
I changed my brake calliper on my car put the wheel on and im guessing it was never sitting properly. I drove the car multiple times and assumed the noise and wheel wobbling was because the old seized calliper had warped the disc as they got very hot. I ordered a set of disc and started jacking the car up and put tue socket on the wheel nut and it was hand tight so i shook the wheel and it was loose. I was a mechanic but weaving machines for 8 years so im well versed in checking and double and correctly torqing things. We all make mistakes dont beat yourself up over it.
My dad is quite fond of telling the story of when he picked up another old banger in the 70s, going down a gentle slope curving to the left (in the city) only to suddenly notice one of his rear wheels overtaking him and disappearing into the nearby park. That was only the wheel though, not the whole hub, brake drum and all.
Please don't be too hard on yourself mate, mistakes happen to professionals and amateurs alike, you're only human, and best of all nobody was hurt , you live and learn mate.
God bless you and the family, and God bless the rest of the viewers.
Best wishes from Manchester.
Jay
This sort of thing happens all of the time. Be it rushing, being tired or under the weather or just a plain oversight. Working on anything mechanical is a potential problem waiting to occur, which is what a lot of people don't understand. The responsibility involved is a heavy weight indeed.... But the advice my Grandfather gave me about near misses is :- "You either hit them or you don't". I often say that to apprentice, or experienced, mechanics. Don't beat yourself up with what could of happened, just take it as a lesson. You'll certainly never make the same mistake again!.
Before my current life, I was a royalmail driver. I had the front tyres replaced on both front wheels once on a van, by the royalmail workshops, it was then picked up the next day by my line manager and driven the 17 miles back to our depot. I was handed the keys , by him, and loaded up. So once loaded and the van was cooled down, I did the drivers check on the van, oil etc, got to the front left, only three nuts left on, on a five stud wheel and only one of the three was tight. So I refused to take it out, told said manager” I thought I heard a noise”!!! He then got promoted to area fleet manager 2 months later, and the workshop mechanic is a Halfords manager!😂
No need to be ashamed of yourself Ian. These things do happen. Look at how many times highly trained f1 technicians release an f1 car out of the pits with an undone wheel nut. What's most important is that no one got hurt. We do learn from mistakes after all.
Literally, the HUBNUT wasn’t tightened 😬.i once forgot to put the oil cap back on, these mistakes are easy to make, sorry it happened Ian.
Professionals make mistakes too, Ian. My garage, of the back street variety, that I've been using for many years recently forgot to fully tighten and torque the wheel nuts on one wheel. Serious on a 4 ton plus motorhome! I was aware of a problem after driving around 10 miles and pulled into a tyre fitting establishment immediately. Very kindly they jacked up the vehicle, removed the wheel and checked the bolts for damage, and refitted and torqued. Free of charge and done with a smile. Excellent customer, or at least potential customer, facing skills!
It just shows how an apparently minor omission can result in serious damage, or worse still, injury and death. So glad that you took it to a good garage.
That was a lucky escape.
Glad it’s had a happy ending - Carly has her pride and joy back working
Don't worry about it - worse things happen at sea and a man who has never made a mistake never made anything.
Everyone makes mistakes and it shows your character that you admitted yours. Good Going! As a fellow shade tree mechanic, I know there are things that I need a garage to sort out for me. At least your mechanic found the loose wheel bearing and tightened it up for you. Brakes are one of those things that I don't skimp on and don't cut corners on. I am happy Chemy is sorted out and am looking forward to seeing the next episode in the Hub Nut saga.
I could give you many examples in my very small circle of friends where garages (often awarded with official accolades) have carried out routine work after which wheels nuts were loose, callipers have fallen off, driveshafts have fallen out, I could go on …. So definitely don’t assume a garage is a safe option….🙃
That's true. Garages can and do get it wrong as well sometimes.
Keep up the good work and don’t be put off by this mishap, as someone else said: take note of a mistake like this and it should make you a better mechanic 🧐!
Don't be too hard on yourself Ian, these things happen, no damage was done, it can happen to the best of us.
I guess the lesson is don't work on cars if you're feeling unwell!
I admire your honesty and I would like to say I have never made any foolish errors when engaged in car maintenance or in any other area. However, that would be a lie.
I do admire you for coming clean about this mishap. Many wouldn’t have been brave enough. It’s your character and honesty that keeps us all so devoted to the channel. I believe that all us amateur fettelers and bodgers have had such incidents. My top three include almost killing myself with exhaust (twice), forgetting to tighten my mini’s wheel nuts and nearly losing the wheel on the test drive and dropping an MG Midget on myself trapping me completely until my stepdad could find a jack and get the thing off me. Such carefree times! 😂
At least no one was hurt, apart from pride Mr HubNut, lesson learnt.
Huge respect to you for being so open and honest, really tough one that. We all make mistakes, you are not alone
We've all done it Ian, then beaten ourselves up for it after. The important thing is to learn from it, which no doubt you have done, as we all have.
On the other topic, I sold a vehicle from my collection so that I could bring the others up to date on some overdue jobs and maintenance. It was sad to let it go, but it was worse looking at each of the others and telling myself that I'd get to it at some point.
I've been there, Ian. I made the exact same error with a Honda Accord I used to have. Thankfully it didn't end in disaster.
Have done similar things (worked as a mechanic for 25 years until recently) so even "professionals'" can forget.
Usaly you get a faint idea that you missed something before you take the test drive.
I've been called out to check a clonking noise on the car my wife drives because it was getting worse so quickly she was worried about continuing to drive it home (with kids in the back). I spent a while at the roadside driving it up and down a layby, looking for the source of the noise, finally jacking the car up to take the front wheels off for a full investigation and found the N/S front wheel bolts were all loose and the wheel was moving on the hub. I'd had the wheels off 3 days earlier at the weekend to change antiroll bar drop-links.
I felt both ashamed, an idiot, and confused that it had taken two days of use and almost 60 miles to become evident that I'd not torqued the wheel bolts up.
This said, the same thing happened to my brother after he collected his car from a garage and drove it 150 miles up the M6 so it's not only the amateurs that forget things sometimes. The important thing is that you're not harmed, and understand what happened so you can learn from it. Much better than pretending you weren't at fault and not learning.
I have 'wheel bolts' painted on the jack now...
A valuable lesson learnt, always tighten bolt and nuts as you go, never think to yourself 'I'll do that later'.
So technically a hub nut issue on HubNut.
Back in the 80's I replaced the chain and rear tyre on my motorbike whilst really unwell (thought it was a cold turned out to be salmonella poisoning) and failed to torque the rear bolt on the wheel...it came loose and jammed the rear wheel about 40 mph.
It was wet and I just slid along the road..then i spotted so the HGV behind me sliding rapidly towards me.
He stopped short of me, by about 6 feet... but life lesson learned right there.
Don't be too hard on yourself.We all make mistakes but we also learn from them.
I had a garage once fit a break and put the wheel back on. On the way back home, the car started vibrating then, I started going slow with the intention of finding somewhere to pull over and look, when there was a sudden bang and the car came to a rapid stop. On looking, the wheel had come off, but fortunately, the car was sitting on top of the wheel!
lucky bro
Everyone who works on there own cars has forgotten to tighten/put something back on, if they say otherwise they are lying!. It was a rear wheel so you would have probably kept hold of the car if it came off 🤣.
If you aren’t making mistakes in life you aren’t pushing yourself enough. I took me and the kids to the South Coast in the Fiesta and noticed a noise on the way home. Two wheel bolts were loose. I felt bad about that.
Also worth having a “nip up” of bolts after road use, perhaps after a few trips out. I find even after torquing to spec after greenlaning it is amazing what needs tightening.
Even professionals make mistakes. Many years ago I picked my car up from a garage and drove it home. On the way I was getting horrible vibration from a rear wheel that had been worked on. I stopped to find that the wheel bolts were all loose and working their way out
Don’t beat yourself up - the professionals do it too. The important thing is to learn from your mistake so you don’t do it again.
Guys you have earned the respect of most people I hope, because you humbly admitted a mistake unlike some on youtube I can mention Good luck and best wishes to you..........
Nothing broken and nobody hurt. Interestingly in the aircraft industry where I spent my working life critical fasteners must be checked by another person before the job is signed off.
You need to invest in a label maker, i have a brother label printer £50 at screwfix & it's one of my most used tools, every time i replace/change/service a car i print of the date & milage of what i have done & stick it on the slam panel under the bonnet, so every time i open the bonnet i can check when something was done last & that helps me keep an eye on my maintenance on the car, i also do it on other people cars i do work on so they can keep a eye on it as well!
Well done for admitting the error. Many wouldn't. It also acts as a sharp reminder to us home and professional mechanics to double triple check the work.
The most important thing is that no-one was hurt. I dropped the ball on my Transit and ended up throwing a wheel as I'd changed the wheels and the lug nuts weren't deep enough so they bottomed out on the stud and not the wheel, luckily I was doing 20 and was able to pull immediately over and pull a nut off each of the other wheels to get me to a car park and tighten them down with a breaker bar just to get me the few miles home where I could order a depeer set. Again no-one was hurt but when these things happen it's a real wake-up call and you do tend to take things more seriously afterwards
Many times I've checked a car which has been into a garage for work and found mechanic errors just as serious as yours, Ian. I wondered worry about it too much as if the bolts had undone themselves to the point where the hub was that loose, the noise would have become intolerable long before the hub let go.
However, as I impress upon all my family, every time you take a car out always listen for any noises which you didn't hear before and, whatever you do, don't just turn the music up louder.
Richard
Mistakes get made but you lived, you learned and you've admitted to the world that you cocked up.
Fair play.
So refreshing that have been fully open about this and I know that you will feel guilty about it and even perhaps have flashbacks.
However, please do be hard on yourself for one significant reason: we learn extremely valuable lessons from our mistakes however small or large they might be.
My late father used to say check, check and then check again.
With a name called Hub Nut, you of all people Ian? I would have thought you would have checked this. But seriously, you're forgiven here, you're among friends, we all make mistakes, we're only human and not perfect. A few years ago, we had a company Transit Van, a rear wheel drive LWB 300, one day one of our employees rang to tell us the steering was faulty. We got the AA out, it turned out the near side front wheel track rod end had all but come out of the locating socket on the wheel, the two locking nuts mustn't have been tightened up during the previous servicing a few weeks' earlier. We dug out the service report, which actually mentioned adjusting the track rod ends in the servicing schedule (it was a main Ford dealer in Bury). We complained but got nowhere - someone could easily have been killed if they'd driven down the motorway with that problem. We were dissatisfied with the dealer's response and never used them again. So even the professionals get it wrong sometimes.
It happens to everyone at some point, I once forgot to tighten the bolts of the rear wheels at work, luckily I noticed it in the first few meters of the test drive.
Once again, get well soon Ian.
I did that with lug nuts on my Studebaker lark. If the car fender hadn't overlapped the tire the wheel would have gotten free.
My hubs said Japanese railway inspectors point at things when they've completed the task. It's a great tip. I don't have to drive across town to check the skunk works (car storage) to check it's locked...
Even garages make mistakes. A few years back, I had a couple of tyres fitted and when I got home I discovered that 3 of the 5 studs in one of the wheels were not even finger tight! I didn't use them again after that. A few years prior to that, another tyre place put gouge marks on all 4 of my alloys when fitting tyres, and they refused to accept liability! These two experiences mean that I like to watch my tyres and wheels being fitted where possible, and I always check wheel nut torques when I get back
A friend of mine had his tyres replaced at the same tyre place my parents use and went on a 500 km trip afterwards. I think about halfway in he noticed strange vibrations and eventually drove to a garage. They found that one wheel had almost fallen off and the wheel bearing was knackered. The tyre place actually has a disclaimer that customers must check lug nut/bolt torque after 50 km but who ever does that?
Standard practice putting this notice on the invoice I'm afraid, as you say, nobody bothers checking wheel nuts after the wheels have been off....no doubt every anorak will attack me for saying this 👀@Ragnar8504
@@Ragnar8504 I always check before leaving tyre fitters, get some funny looks but I dont care, better safe than sorry.
I remember not tightening wheel bolts all the way on my mum's car once... the front nearside made a banging noise which confused us at the time... luckily we didn't go far with the car at the time!
I changed the pads and shoes on my Rover 213 many moons ago and wondered what the "cloning" noise was after driving 15 miles into central Newcastle. All 16 wheel nuts were loose. We can all make silly mistakes.
So, here's the thing. We have all made mistakes, strong people admit them! You will never again finish a job without running through it in your head, and checking the work. I once forgot to nip up some wheel bolts after fitting winter tyres. lucky for me I felt a vibration through the steering wheel, turned the sound system off and heard a knocking. Knew immediately what I had done. A nerve wracking 3 miles to the next lay by on a dual carriage way! I hadn't lost any bolts luckily, so nipped them up and learned my lesson!
Don't push down the guilt, or rehash the incident in your brain over and over. Accept it and learn from the experience. Complacency comes for us all, and sometimes you need a kick in the bottom from the universe to keep you on the straight and narrow.
Good for you to make it into a PSA for the audience, many would be far too proud to admit these things publicly. Warts 'n' all truly is the channel ethos.
The best way to learn is to make the occasional mistakem and if you know you will struggle or unsure there is no shame in booking it in at a garage I do it myself
This absolutely bares out my point that when working on cars you have to really concentrate on what you're doing so that mistakes and bad stuff doesn't happen
There's a song by Ralph McTell called "Icarus survived" which echoes the sentiments of most people who've commented here. A line from it is "Nobody made nothing who never made mistakes". It's a good song - well worth a listen.
I still remember the day I moved an E Type out of the showroom to get another car out for a customer to road test and smashed into the back of a horsebox at 5mph or so. The mechanic had forgotten to put a stick it note on the speedo saying "no brakes", a costly repair and respray of a full E type bonnet was required as it was gunmetal grey metallic.
Oops...
I always have to check stuff like this about 50 times, even if it means dismantling things to check….. it can be handy to put a paint mark on bolts you’ve tightened too….once after charging a front wheel bearing on my old Triumph and after short test drive I took the wheel back off to do a final ocd check and realised that the split pin I’d fitted in the Hubnut (!) had too small a head and would pull right though the castellated nut and stub axle…..
Safety always Ian, your not replaceable & Miss Hubnut even more so ❤
Nor are the others in my life.
@@HubNut No slight intended Ian 😔
@@MrOvershoot He always seemed to get offended easily from memory, nothing new.
Love your content Ian. You are the Reg Prescott of DIY mechanics.
That was my nickname as an apprentice! They even sold me a Metro with the registration A69 REG 🤣
Hey, we've all done something daft. It makes the case for being aware of how the car feels and sounds. If a noise starts it could be a tyre going flat for instance. In your case you might have heard noise from the brake drum rubbing as it went out of alignment. On my Model A roadster, I had a wheel trim ring that made a noise on one front wheel. It turned out a couple of wheelnuts were loose on that wheel and the flex in the wheel was generating the noise on the trim. Glad you found the problem before it developed further. Hope you are feeling better. Mart in Solihull.
I was taught by family and friends to make a point of touching every bolt you have worked on before covering anything up. That helps you remember what you did with it.
a good safe way of checking is to mark all tightened bolts / nuts etc with a spot of paint so a quick visual will show if there finished tightened especially with multiple assembly over a few days
Please don't beat yourself up over this Ian. We have all been there mate !
Don't kick yourself Ian. You acted quickly.
Twice I've had issues with brake caliper bolts coming loose after being torqued to spec. Once the lower bolt came loose and the caliper wedged itself between the rim and the brake disc, punching a hole in the rim in the process. The other time resulted in no damage but I double check every time I refit a caliper bolt, and also use loctite. As long as you've learned from the experience, and nobody got hurt, everything is good.
It happens Ian and we all learn from our mistakes. That makes us better people.
My Dad had a new Ford Falcon in 1967. As we reversed down the driveway to go on a long family trip we all heard a massive grinding noise. The car club guy showed up and was perplexed. It took him a while but he discovered the engine mounts had never been properly bolted down. The engine had fallen to one side and the fan was contacting the radiator. If Ford can do it, anyone can.
Professionals make mistakes, too. I had a tyre shop forget to tighten wheel nuts. Another time, a mechanic forgot to tighten a bleed nipple and I ended up with no brakes while descending a hill. I did manage to stop by using the handbrake. Fun times.
The important thing is that it was caught. No harm done. Even the pros make errors like that. Just a good reminder to slow down and triple check everything when it's getting reassembled.
It happens, I bought my stepson an old run around Mondeo which had a bad front wheel bearing. We'll do it for you or knock 100 off if you want to do it. I was busy so said you do it. Car dropped off to me a few days later. Took it for a drive with the wife in when there is an awful knocking noise, only a mile from home so gingerly drove back. Every wheel bolt loose plus they had mullered and stripped the driveshaft nut. I still ended up having to strip the hub to fit a new CV joint once I managed to chisel the nut off that somehow they had forced back on and was spinning. Absolute cowboys.
A few years ago I took my car to the main dealer. New front brakes fitted. Mechanic left his spanner on the bleeding nipple nut, untightened. Driving at 70mph suddenly no brakes as no fluid left.
AA man said if spanner had come off at that speed it could have been a lot worse if it had gone into the wheel and locked it up. 😮
Yikes...
Understandable, Ian, given how you felt. These things happen, even when we're in peak health.
I am sure that we have all done something similar.
What is important is that nobody was hurt, you know what you did and have learned from it.
Absolutely brilliant video Ian miss hubnut ❤👍at least she's repaired now and not scrapped like mine is facing with the a blown hole in the head gasket vauxhall Vectra c elite toast well done brilliant
Been there, got the T shit, don't beat yourself up, anyone who hasn't done something similar hasn't done much work on anything.
Bird distraction; saaaame. 😂
Glad all is well. 🤗
A lesson for us all guys, thanks for sharing this.
I've done the wheel nut trick, they were all finger tight and it took me far too long the figure out the strange noise. Fortunately it was so strange that I couldn't ignore it. Deepest sympathy with you.
I often see mechanics tighten stuff with an impact gun and just assume when it is ratcheting that the nut or bolt is tight. In some cases it has just reached a rusty bit of thread and the fixing is still loose. It is always best to go over them with a torque wrench even if you don't know the correct torque. At least that way you get to feel how much welly you have applied.
I had an similiar story with my Xantia. A wheel bolt got stripped and we replaced the hub bearing, but the mechanic trusted me to buy it, I got a seemingly right one, but apparently there was a changeover date and I got it wrong, which meant it started wobbling like crazy after a drive even though it was tight. But I didn't notice it until after I lifted it weeks later to fit new rear brakes. During that time I managed to experience snap oversteer during a spirited bend, that was very not fun and very dangerous. Was unstable at speed too, but it's crazy what you don't notice and drive on everyday.
Yikes!
I did a similar thing some years ago. I refurbished my ex's wheels on her Vauxhall Nova. They looked nice and tidy again and off she went to an appointment with her sister. On return, she commented on the car being a bit noisy. After checking things over, I realised I hadn't tighten up the wheel nuts fully and the wheel could be wobbled by hand quite readily! It happens to us all at some point. You always think, OMG, what if... and you do worry about doing anything again, but even professionals miss things occasionally. Doesn't make you feel any better about it, but you learn and move on. It's difficult when you don't feel 100% and you are trying to fix something, plus trying to film it for content.
I know you feel bad about it, but no-one was hurt and I'm sure a lot of us have done things wrong, Good to see Miss Hubnut for sensing something wasn't right and saying and doing something about it.
Don't be too hard on yourself. I've seen professional mechanics do the same. Easily done and no harm done. Lesson learned
These things happen to the best of us - whilst serious, no actual harm was done and it has now been repaired... plus, you've learned a couple of lessons (1- triple check everything and 2- don't work on cars when you are feeling really ill)
Very honest, and very commendable in that honesty. Learning there for you, sure, but for a lot of others too. A good accident to have then: no one hurt, nothing broken, lots to be gained and built on from it.
Nonetheless, I am sorry this happened to you. Take care.