[s-cars] HRSB oops!!

[Elijahallen92 at aol.com]

Hi all, 
 Today I returned from a trip down to Tennessee for my little bro's 
graduation. My wife and I took her S6 Avant on the 1500 mile round trip. Well about 
three hours in I pulled off to get gas and as I pulled out from the stop sign on 
the off ramp I heard a loud scraping coming from the passengers side rear of 
the car, I immediately pulled over and just before the car stopped, BOOM and 
the car came to a sudden stop. Rachel looked out of her window to see the rear 
tire was flat and when I got out to look at it I found that the heim link had 
worked its way down on the threads and had come loose at the top and swung down 
where it caught on the inside of the wheel and drove right through. The tire 
was fine but the wheel was not, it had a hole the size of a quarter on the 
inside of it. On top of that I forgot my lug wrench so we walked down to the 
nearest store for some wrenches and a breaker bar. I got the spare on and was able 
to reconnect the swaybar. We called around and found a tire rack that had 
another wheel (OZ supperlag) but it was in south bend Indiana and they would be 
closed by the time we got there but we didn't have much choice so we headed 
down and spent the night there. The next morning we were able to get a new wheel 
and have them swap the tire onto it. All went well from then on. The reason 
the heim link worked its way down was because I didn't tighten the nuts on the 
top and bottom of the threaded shaft enough so it worked its way loose. Anyway 
good thing to keep an eye on.

Elijah