GU Wheel coming off at 110km/h

Hi All,

I know I saw a thread about this before, but i can't seem to find it now :(

So, anyways ..... Kelly Safari TSR's fitted June last year. All was well.
2 weeks ago, taken back to the same place for rotate & balance before our easter hols.
Went away at Easter (local-ish) and then this weekend, had a couple of days away.
On our way home (100km/h), passed a vehicle and the back end of the patrol started to wobble like we were towing an out-of-control caravan .... kinda scary but it settled down and we wondered if it was a combination of the wind and having the roof racks .... anyways, a minute later we hear what sounded like a flat, so hubby slows down and pulls over, as I see the back passenger tyre wobbling around in the wing mirror. We stop and i leap out to see that the wheel is no longer attached to the car, but the brake calliper is sat on the inside of the tyre, and had crushed the calliper housing between the two!
Long story short, RAA came out, jacked it up, cleaned the 5 remaining bolts (1 sheared off), broke the padlock for our spare (key was at home - fail) and swapped our spare onto it. Luckily we had spare nuts from when we got the lock nuts. Plus we found 3 of the old nuts up the road - the other 3 are somewhere further back than i cared to walk.

Spoke to the place who did the balance & rotate and explained what happened, and to start with they reckoned it couldn't have been them, as it would have happened within 50kms of leaving there. They reckoned someone had deliberately loosened them. As our Patrol is in a garage overnight, and otherwise mostly in secure compound where hubby works, this is VERY unlikely. Anyways, they had a look at it tonight, and seem to accept that we haven't done anything silly .... so now we wait to see how much they are prepared to assist in the replacement of wheel, tyre, bolts, lock nuts, brake calliper housing etc ..... comes to about $2200 after talking to Nissan, although i'm sure i could push them a bit on the price. $1460 for a replacement wheel!! Nearly died when the guy told me that ... glad i was sat down!

Anyways - wondering if anyone has had any luck getting these kinds of tyre places to fork out for the repairs that are needed here?

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Lesson learnt about checking the nuts regularly!

not sure why the preview shows the first pic upside down, but when it's opened fully, it seems to be ok :S

First time... We did ours under insurance as our bill was up near the 4k mark using new genuine parts and got the lot replaced.

second time ffs.......
Same thing did it on insurance but this time we asked to be payed out for the alloy rim ($1200) and bought steel rims for $130 ea and then sold the alloys for $250 ea.

Well known problem with the Nissan Alloys and 90% of the time it is the left rear due to the drive torque.

Nissan recently had a big campaign to call in all Patrols with factory alloys and fit wheel nut indicators.

Dunno how you'll go with the wheel mob... most of them either tell you to check the nuts after x K's or drop back in and they will do so for you.

Heaps of threads on here about the issue

they tyre mob may be more likely to pay the excess if you were to fix it under insurancerather then the repair bill and it will be a sh!t load cheaper then $2200 either way.

ours were both front left

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Originally Posted by tracemul7

Hi All, I know I saw a thread about this before, but i can't seem to find it now :( So, anyways ..... Kelly Safari TSR's fitted June last year. All was well. 2 weeks ago, taken back to the same place for rotate & balance before our easter hols. Went away at Easter (local-ish) and then this weekend, had a couple of days away. On our way home (100km/h), passed a vehicle and the back end of the patrol started to wobble like we were towing an out-of-control caravan .... kinda scary but it settled down and we wondered if it was a combination of the wind and having the roof racks .... anyways, a minute later we hear what sounded like a flat, so hubby slows down and pulls over, as I see the back passenger tyre wobbling around in the wing mirror. We stop and i leap out to see that the wheel is no longer attached to the car, but the brake calliper is sat on the inside of the tyre, and had crushed the calliper housing between the two! Long story short, RAA came out, jacked it up, cleaned the 5 remaining bolts (1 sheared off), broke the padlock for our spare (key was at home - fail) and swapped our spare onto it. Luckily we had spare nuts from when we got the lock nuts. Plus we found 3 of the old nuts up the road - the other 3 are somewhere further back than i cared to walk. Spoke to the place who did the balance & rotate and explained what happened, and to start with they reckoned it couldn't have been them, as it would have happened within 50kms of leaving there. They reckoned someone had deliberately loosened them. As our Patrol is in a garage overnight, and otherwise mostly in secure compound where hubby works, this is VERY unlikely. Anyways, they had a look at it tonight, and seem to accept that we haven't done anything silly .... so now we wait to see how much they are prepared to assist in the replacement of wheel, tyre, bolts, lock nuts, brake calliper housing etc ..... comes to about $2200 after talking to Nissan, although i'm sure i could push them a bit on the price. $1460 for a replacement wheel!! Nearly died when the guy told me that ... glad i was sat down! Anyways - wondering if anyone has had any luck getting these kinds of tyre places to fork out for the repairs that are needed here? <img src="http://www.nissanpatrol.com.au/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=43885"/><img src="http://www.nissanpatrol.com.au/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=43886"/> <img src="http://www.nissanpatrol.com.au/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=43887"/> Lesson learnt about checking the nuts regularly!

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Bloody hell, things could have gone so wrong.

Bloody lucky it didn't come right off. That would have been scary...One of the reasons why I didn't buy alloys for mine. While they do look nice. I don't like the risk of this happening. Chances are it wouldn't happen. But...

Thanks all - I did think about insurance claim .... but our insurance is already $110 a month, and didnt really want to see that increase too much come the renewal.

It was pretty scary, although i'm glad i didnt know what happened until we stopped lol. The lady i spoke to at the RAA kept having to tell me to calm down haha.
Only afterwards did I really think how bad it could have been, and also our trip at Easter we had my nephew in the car .... and yeah, well someone was obviously watching over me :)

Will post an update when i hear back from the tyre mob :)

This has prompted me to go out and check my wheel nuts as I had new tyres fitted 1000k ago. Nut indicators were all still lined up but decided to check anyway.
Luckily all still tight.

http://www.nissanpatrol.com.au/forum...nal+check+nuts

I usually post this up before any long weekends or holidays