Thread: Split Rims!?
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Old Jun 14, 2005 | 10:38 AM
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Scared the shit out of me the first time it happened, i had only just installed the engine id built for it and was still running it in.

i was driving up the M5 at about 60mph or soand heard "ting" and the distincive sound of a bolt bouncing off the car.

I thought "oh, what a coont, must have left a loose bolt in the engine bay, thats not like me, oh well...."

Then a minute later "ting" and same noise, then a few seconds after another one, then another.

No way that was healthy so quickly pulled over and one front wheel was missing a third of its bolts and a couple missing from the other (shows how exactly they are made that both failed together like that)

So after that i had to make sure i always had a small torque wrench and a set of bolts with me just in case

And at coombe etc i always checked them every session obviously.

Awesome wheels though
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