[s-cars] HRSB oops!!

[Bill Clancy]

hmmm, could lock-tight help?

good story though.   certainly added some excitement to the road trip  ;;-)

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <Elijahallen92 at aol.com>
To: <s-car-list at audifans.com>
Sent: Monday, May 24, 2004 2:05 PM
Subject: [s-cars] HRSB oops!!


> 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
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