Spare wheel fell out ! ! ! Look out behind ! ! !

[VTS_16v_Boy]

So, there I am drivin over to see my old folks last night. Dirty night last night so I was ploddin along at 70-75 in the middle lane of the A13 when all of a sudden . . .

Ping ! ? ! Bang . . . Scrape Scrape Scrape. . . . . :fcuk:

I look in my mirror to see my spare wheel skidding along behind me, while my spare wheel cage scrapes along underneath me! Crap Crap Crap, so I pull over asap, and open the boot to find out why the cage dropped.

I lift the boot carpit up to check the bolt/hook that holds the cage up only to find the hook along with about an inch of bolt is missin!

I tie the cage up with cable ties then had to dodge on coming motorway traffic to get my spare wheel back! Lets just say I had to change my underwear wen I got home.

Only thing is, when I got the wheel back to the car it looks like some has hit the wheel as there is the biggest dent in it Ive ever seen! I looked around and while drivin home I couldnt see anyone that had pulled over with half their bumper missing so I think I as well as all the over traffic got away very lucky.

It wasnt till I got home untill I though wow I could have been road kill and made the 10 oclock news :-(

[dannyjay]

Lol, nice little story. Glad it was a happy ending. :P

[hesslevtr]

mine did the same going round a corner

[saxodan]

fuck running down a motor way head on for a tyre!

Would of called someone like to cops

[adamlang]

same happend to me, but i had only just put one of my normal wheels back on my car after doing the brakes. Shit myself because i though one of my normal wheels had fallen off haha. Luckily it was late at night and no one was around. Crapped myself though.

[VTS_16v_Boy]

Funny you shouls say about brakes as I had mine done late last week and 1st thing that I fort was, oh crap brakes! ! !

Glade Im not the only one its appened to :-)

Was it down to the bolt that holds the cage up in your cases?

[Didz]

shit! sound bad but im glad noone got hurt! and its all good in the end!

[Robb]

could the dent not be from the wheel hitting the floor?

didnt have this problem as had the sparewheel removed when i had the exhausts done

[Curran]

i imagine the dent was from it hitting and bouncing/scraping along at 70mph.

unlucky though. i've heard of this happening a few times with saxo's, maybe its a common fault that needs to be sorted.

[James]

lol you got to love saxo's... I'd look out because next your arches will start falling off doing 70mph.. or was it only me that happened to?

[Scott]

One of simos archs disappeared when he was at warp 6 on a dual carriageway a few years back:P

http://www.saxperience.com/photos/photo4840.jpg

My spare wheel fell out once to, thankfully i found the hook at the side of the road and just tightened it up again

[hesslevtr]

One of simos archs disappeared when he was at warp 6 on a dual carriageway a few years back:P



clouds did that to well it came off and was just swinging about

and his wasnt at warp speed

[knoxy_05]

i just pulled most of my kit off (arches door trim ) and replaced all the clips they wernt lookin as tight as they once had only £1.90 for 9 from citroen

[Mystic]

The exact same thing happenend to someone else a few weeks back and he had to do a mad dash back along the motorway on foot to retreive the wheel too lol. Those bolts seem to snap awfully easily :sad:

Iv always got cable ties in the car lol, they come in handy for everything and are much stronger than the paperclips citreon use to hold saxos together :P

[samcook]

think im gunna go check my spare wheel ha

[VTaaRon]

thats the french manufacturing for you! vts_16v_boy were you at bluewater last week?

[marc666]

spare wheel fell off my days van once, but luckly it was only a mile from home down a backroad.

[VTS_16v_Boy]

thats the french manufacturing for you! vts_16v_boy were you at bluewater last week?

Yer I think so :-) Did you spot me? Bet you saw my Spoiler 1st before the rest of the car :-)

If there is anything to learn from this . . . Go check your spare wheel bolt.
How funny would it have been if it had happened at somewhere like Santa Pod on the strip :-O How embarrasing would that be!