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Old 10 May 2008, 07:09 pm
Pangloss
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Default Missing lug nuts

I pulled into a shopping center parking space right next to this real small
Honda beater (I think a Civic that was so old it must have had a two digit
serial number) and noticed that the RF wheel was missing one of its four lug
nuts. The driver was in the car so I walked around his car to tell him about
it, along the way noticing that the LF wheel was in the same shape. When I
told the jerk in the driver's seat about the missing nuts, he told me-- in
broken Spanglish-- to go F*** off.

My question is how long will I have to wait until his wheel(s) fall of and
he loses control of the car so I can see him upside down in a roadside
ditch?



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Old 12 May 2008, 08:44 pm
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Default Re: Missing lug nuts

"Pangloss" <optimist@pessimist> wrote in
news:F7-dnSmHe8OwpLvVnZ2dnUVZ_jSdnZ2d@comcast.com:

> I pulled into a shopping center parking space right next to this real
> small Honda beater (I think a Civic that was so old it must have had a
> two digit serial number) and noticed that the RF wheel was missing one
> of its four lug nuts. The driver was in the car so I walked around his
> car to tell him about it, along the way noticing that the LF wheel was
> in the same shape. When I told the jerk in the driver's seat about the
> missing nuts, he told me-- in broken Spanglish-- to go F*** off.
>
> My question is how long will I have to wait until his wheel(s) fall of
> and he loses control of the car so I can see him upside down in a
> roadside ditch?
>
>
>




Probably forever. Three lugs properly tightened are sufficient to hold the
wheel on the hub. But your Spanglish guy is still a dummy for driving
around this way.

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Tegger

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Old 12 May 2008, 09:18 pm
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Pangloss wrote:
> I pulled into a shopping center parking space right next to this real small
> Honda beater (I think a Civic that was so old it must have had a two digit
> serial number) and noticed that the RF wheel was missing one of its four lug
> nuts. The driver was in the car so I walked around his car to tell him about
> it, along the way noticing that the LF wheel was in the same shape. When I
> told the jerk in the driver's seat about the missing nuts, he told me-- in
> broken Spanglish-- to go F*** off.
>
> My question is how long will I have to wait until his wheel(s) fall of and
> he loses control of the car so I can see him upside down in a roadside
> ditch?


why don't you stop bleating to us and do something decisive? call dmv,
or call the cops if you have that much of a problem with it.
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Old 13 May 2008, 01:10 pm
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On May 12, 9:44*pm, Tegger <teg...@tegger.c0m> wrote:
> "Pangloss" <optimist@pessimist> wrote innews:F7-dnSmHe8OwpLvVnZ2dnUVZ_jSdnZ2d@comcast.com:
>
> > I pulled into a shopping center parking space right next to this real
> > small Honda beater (I think a Civic that was so old it must have had a
> > two digit serial number) and noticed that the RF wheel was missing one
> > of its four lug nuts. The driver was in the car so I walked around his
> > car to tell him about it, along the way noticing that the LF wheel was
> > in the same shape. When I told the jerk in the driver's seat about the
> > missing nuts, he told me-- in broken Spanglish-- to go F*** off.

>
> > My question is how long will I have to wait until his wheel(s) fall of
> > and he loses control of the car so I can see him upside down *in a
> > roadside ditch?

>
> Probably forever. Three lugs properly tightened are sufficient to hold the
> wheel on the hub. But your Spanglish guy is still a dummy for driving
> around this way.
>
> --
> Tegger
>
> The Unofficial Honda/Acura FAQwww.tegger.com/hondafaq/


"spirited driving" with a four lug wheel with a missing nut can lead
to the wheel folding over on the weak axis described by the line
through the unsupported side of the two lug nuts and the hole in the
middle, which is why american cars went to five lug wheels a zillion
years back. that said, i've never heard even rumors of that happening
in the current generation of four lug wheel cars.
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Old 13 May 2008, 10:32 pm
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z wrote:
> On May 12, 9:44�pm, Tegger <teg...@tegger.c0m> wrote:
>> "Pangloss" <optimist@pessimist> wrote innews:F7-dnSmHe8OwpLvVnZ2dnUVZ_jSdnZ2d@comcast.com:
>>
>>> I pulled into a shopping center parking space right next to this real
>>> small Honda beater (I think a Civic that was so old it must have had a
>>> two digit serial number) and noticed that the RF wheel was missing one
>>> of its four lug nuts. The driver was in the car so I walked around his
>>> car to tell him about it, along the way noticing that the LF wheel was
>>> in the same shape. When I told the jerk in the driver's seat about the
>>> missing nuts, he told me-- in broken Spanglish-- to go F*** off.
>>> My question is how long will I have to wait until his wheel(s) fall of
>>> and he loses control of the car so I can see him upside down �in a
>>> roadside ditch?

>> Probably forever. Three lugs properly tightened are sufficient to hold the
>> wheel on the hub. But your Spanglish guy is still a dummy for driving
>> around this way.
>>
>> --
>> Tegger
>>
>> The Unofficial Honda/Acura FAQwww.tegger.com/hondafaq/

>
> "spirited driving" with a four lug wheel with a missing nut can lead
> to the wheel folding over on the weak axis described by the line
> through the unsupported side of the two lug nuts and the hole in the
> middle, which is why american cars went to five lug wheels a zillion
> years back. that said, i've never heard even rumors of that happening
> in the current generation of four lug wheel cars.


that's much more of a necessity with detroit junk - they shear/fatigue
lug studs all the time.
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Old 19 May 2008, 11:38 am
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Pangloss wrote:
> I pulled into a shopping center parking space right next to this real small
> Honda beater (I think a Civic that was so old it must have had a two digit
> serial number) and noticed that the RF wheel was missing one of its four lug
> nuts. The driver was in the car so I walked around his car to tell him about
> it, along the way noticing that the LF wheel was in the same shape. When I
> told the jerk in the driver's seat about the missing nuts, he told me-- in
> broken Spanglish-- to go F*** off.
>
> My question is how long will I have to wait until his wheel(s) fall of and
> he loses control of the car so I can see him upside down in a roadside
> ditch?
>

====================

Wait until he goes inside and take off two more . . . . BTW, he's (also)
probably using the park brake instead of the foot brakes. I called the
cops when I saw a guy doing that once.

:-)

'Curly'
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