Craziest expierience of my life has to be about a month ago(i just red the lt1 vs jimmy and rememberd) after i finished installing and painting my brake callipers i was so excited to test drive it and see how my first big brake project went(im only 18 with trial by error expierience) and put the tires on and went.Heart pumping and all i drove down the street and braked FINE it all went well then went even faster and braked PERFECT i was so excited and went on my main road to show of my cool brakes to my friends when suddenly the front starts shaking so i stop and check it out and everything fine, so i decide to take it home to be on the safe side and it starts shaking again so i decide to go faster(Like i said im 18) and the shaking stops so i get to me street and while driving at 50 my front left tire falls off and crash comes the front end and the care does like 180 and stops to a crashing halt.......im at the point to almost cry(only drove it 3 times) and as i step out the car the tire i pined under the hood with the entire car frame scraped into the sement (hope i dont have to pay for the pavement) so i run hone into my garage pull out my floorjack and low and behold 5 lug nuts under it DUH so i jack up my car and everryything is fine i couldent believe it so i take m lugs throw them on and take my shakin a** home

 

Oops..

Nothing to serious happened though eh. It always pays to check, check and check again with these things.
At least you're giving it a bash with the mechanics - best way to learn.

 

wow that sucks!

But I bet you remeber to check all lug nuts from now on....

 

wow that sucks. I had an experience similar, luckily the wheel didnt fall off. I had just lifted my old truck and was out offroading and heard some weird "whump whump" noise and it was all shakey. I pulled over and realized all my lug nuts were only finger tight and coming loose!

After that, I torque those things down TIGHT.

Glad your car is ok! Dropping it down like that can do some serious damage!

 

well you live and learn, hopefully the damage isnt as bad as it looks. Make sure you tighten them down as tight as you can next time.

Not to be mean, but this reminds me of a joke by Ron White.

 

We have all been there, maybe not in that same way though. All you can do is say D'oh and check better next time. Glad every things ok.

 

It fell off, it fell off, it fell the f*** off. I guess he was sick on LUG NUT day.

 

That was a great story but it was hard as hell to read.
You need to check more than just lug nuts. Try spelling and grammar checking too.

 

i would have loved to read that story, but 2 lines into i got a headache and shut down.