Oklahoma Has Had A Rash Of Loose Tires Flying Off Of Vehicles Or Off Of Beds of Pickups And Hitting Vehicles & Drivers Lately.

@MarineBob Do they alert drivers to loose lug nuts? I had loose lug nuts on my Subaru once and thought someone did it, and then the other one at the car lot another worker was driving had them too. They need to be checked pretty often I guess especially if you ever drive on rough roads or speed bumps etc.

@cherokeepatti some people refuse to check the torque because they often don't have a torque wrench.

There's a specific torque for each and every vehicle. Most tire shops have and use the specification for that vehicle.

This is pretty much standard nation wide in tire shops. Yet those loose tires are not coming from tire shops in the back of a truck bed.

Those are coming from do it yourself people! Most don't even have a torque wrench much less specifications of all vehicles or even their own vehicles.

Get it too tight the bolt will snap off. Not tight enough the nuts will fall off.

@DeWayfarer I get mine checked at the car lot, they have all the equipment they need.

@cherokeepatti good place as any since they are likely to have the specifications. Yet don't trust a back yard mechanic. Those specifications cost a good deal of money.

When I buy a car though I usually buy a Chilton manual for that specific vehicle. That lists all that specific cars specifications on every specification to that vehicle only.

Yet back yard mechanical won't do that for every vehicle they work on. Each Chilton manual costs around $40 just for one vehicle. To get a online subscription costs thousands of dollars.

@DeWayfarer In the Dallas area, I bet 1 of every 4 cars or maybe 1 of every 5 doesn't have a valid inspection sticker.


It's not because they forgot to get it inspected, it's because they don't have insurance.
And most of them have broken windshields, bad tires, duct taped bumpers.....

@DallasCowboysFan There’s a lot not getting even basic liability here and used to they’d arrest anyone without it or a insurance verification form (they can find out now using their in-car computers quickly if a car is insured). But now they give warning tickets and then they still don’t get the insurance. If they cause an accident with you then you better have good insurance, liability, uninsured motorist and medical payments at the very least because it seems the police here don’t want to arrest the illegals. The jails are overcrowded here and 25 % of the inmates are foreigners, no telling how many are illegals but they tend to get in some quick easy cash schemes and get caught, spend a lot of time in jail and get deported and come back in a couple of years .

@DallasCowboysFan you don't need to tell me that. 😆

I had fake stickers in San Antonio back in 2003! 😆

@DeWayfarer @DeWayfarer San Antonio is a nice town.
Where do you live now?

@DallasCowboysFan back in my home state. Got tired of all the traffic warrants.