Is this normal?

[bszopi]

Check out the pic... let's just say last night was interesting on the drive home. Too bad I still had 5 miles to go when it finally quit....

[RidgeRunner]

Holey fuck Ben, ERRR, uhhh... Brad...
Do our cars require hubcentric wheels, perhaps?

[Juglenaut]

Ouch looks like the lugs where loose or over tightened.

[v6h.o.]

someone was when they put on the lug nuts..... i'd agree too loose or too tight.

how bad is the rim now? i know from seeing customers cars that have lost lugs like that the rims bolt holes are typically just fuckered after that type of stuff happens.

[StudlyCamaro]

holy shit.... at least you stopped before the last one went.. that could have been a quick death

[SappySE107]

That looks way too familiar. My issue was 114.3X5 rim on a 115X5 setup, coupled with incorrect lug nut thread pitch (at least thats what I was told about the lug nuts).

[patgizz]

had similar happen on my old caprice(91) with aftermarket rims - which were not hubcentric. torqued lugs to 100# in correct pattern. it happened 200 miles from home, i caught it before all but 2 studs sheared, luckily i cranked em down and made it home.

i later put the same rims on my truck(ie - the ones off the car) and they WERE hub-centric to the truck and the same thing happened. i'm convinced some aftermarket rims just suck

[bszopi]

I'm blaming it on getting stuck in the snow multiple times and rocking the car back and forth to get out. I'm sure it was hell on the tranny as well. Oh, and then the driving with the wheels packed full of the snow that I had just gotten out of. When the wheels were snow packed, it put the tires severely out of balance and the car shook pretty bad while driving. In fact, I probably could have caught it sooner. But the only thing was, I figured I had lost a weight during all the winter fiasco and the tires just needed to be balanced. I was planning on taking it in this weekend.... Too bad I didn't make it in sooner. Oh well, $138 bucks for the experience. $55 to get it towed the 5 miles home, $50 for the new hub and $33 for the damn tuner lugs (since they only came in packs of 4 and I found another one missing on a different wheel). Its all good... for now. I'm sure in another month something else will break. Seems to be the current trend...

[RidgeRunner]

Why didn't you just put new studs in the hub? I thought that was a fairly straightforward thing to do to press them in.

[RebelGT]

this isn't the first time i've seen this happen on a beretta

[robby1870]

Why didn't you just put new studs in the hub? I thought that was a fairly straightforward thing to do to press them in.

Yeah, its pretty simple. I had one break on me, then while I was taking the wheel off to replace the one stud, two others broke off

[bszopi]

I figure, with 117k on the car and an already replaced hub on the driver's side (due to bad wheel bearings), its not gonna hurt to get a new set of bearings in there. And honestly, I never even thought about replacing the studs themselves...

[pocket-rocket]

I would have to go with Brad on this one. I at least got about 130k miles on the original hubs on the 91.

[RidgeRunner]

Hmm... I have 196k miles on all four original hubs. But I think my fronts are starting to wiggle a bit.

[Lyle's GTP]

I took my car in a couple weeks ago after I had a flat, the Kaltire, bastards didn't even tighten the lugs. I drove 40 blocks and once I got into the river valley and picked up speed I could feel a vibration. I was only 2 blocks from so home I pulled over. All the lugs were loose like not even impact tight let alone torqued, we're talking only a couple threads.

Took it back and didn't even get an applology, the fucker say's "that's why we have disclaimer, it happens all the time". The disclaimer reads: that you have to bring your car back in within 100km for a retorque. As if I over ran the 100Kms or something. I straightened him out. Told the fucker, 40 blocks or 7 minutes ain't no 100 Kms. Made him let me watch his guy torque them to 100ft/lbs. I will be watching every time from now on.

Lyle