my wheel exploded - got pictures
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Originally Posted by watchout
I would also like to know what "jackknife" means?
I guess what he meant to say was that he lost control of his Evo.
Either way, looks like he's ok since he is writing the post.
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So you were just minding your own business and all of a sudden. The rim explodes like a bomb hit it causing the car to jacknife? Or were you going sideways hit something then the bomb went off? You would have to be doing something rather serious to make the rim look like that...
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Wow... this is not complicated. He lost control of his Evo. Slid into a ditch at freeway speeds. At THAT point (While sliding in the ditch) his wheel hit something going 50+ MPH sideways and broke his rim. You find a chunk of aluminum shaped like that and hit it on a post at 50 mph with 3,500 lbs of momentum... see if you can manufacture it to withstand it. lol... everyone seems to belive his rim just "shattered" causing the slide... it "shattered" after he crashed
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Originally Posted by TrinaBabe
Wow... this is not complicated.
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This happened to me many years ago when I was driving a Porsche 911; I had the car to a shop in Huntinton beach for my 5000 mile service and the tech removed all my wheels to inspect the brakes for some unknown reason. He then re-installed my wheels with an impact wrench, not a torque wrench. A week later I was driving down the hill from Lake Arrowhead at a pretty good clip and all of a sudden my car was in a sideways approach to the next apex. I downshifted, turned in the direction of the slide and nothing happened! The next thing I knew we were tumbling down the road. Lucky for us we ended up on the mountain side of the road and not the cliff. My girlfriend kicked out the passenger side window and pulled me to safety as I was unconscious. Long story short the investigative team from my insurance company found after months of testing that there were microscopic fractures emanating out from the lugs thru the spider on the rear driver's wheel and that under a little stress the entire spider fractured off the rim, the tire was jammed into the wheel well and the spider had caught on the ashphalt and catapulted us down the road. Lesson ALWAYS hand torque your wheels.
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Originally Posted by TrinaBabe
Wow... this is not complicated. He lost control of his Evo. Slid into a ditch at freeway speeds. At THAT point (While sliding in the ditch) his wheel hit something going 50+ MPH sideways and broke his rim. You find a chunk of aluminum shaped like that and hit it on a post at 50 mph with 3,500 lbs of momentum... see if you can manufacture it to withstand it. lol... everyone seems to belive his rim just "shattered" causing the slide... it "shattered" after he crashed
You know I was going down the road and jacknifed and hit the grass and I noticed my rim exploded and flew off the car and then I got out. In the sequence of events where did the rim explode. Did he hit a curb or something hard, or did the rim exploding cause the whole "jacknife" action so who really knows?
Last edited by ThEHiTMaN; Feb 21, 2005 at 02:21 PM.
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Originally Posted by 2004EVORS
I was on the freeway and the car jacknifed. I turned to the right so I did not go into the center divider (concrete). The car went off the road and went into some dirt area when the wheel flew off a rolled away and the side dropped down. I slid into some dirt in the side of the road where I got stuck. I did not think the wheel was off the car. I got out and looked to see the hub attached and the outer wheel rolled several yards forward. Shattered my right side mirror and other small damages.
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i am glad u are alive....
if he wasn't he wont be here typing
geeez ppl need to know what is apporiate to type