Subaru Lost A Wheel On The Highway! 

*hears alarming knocking noise coming from front suspension on a customer car* *attempts to get air on railroad tracks* Guess the bar for RU-vid mechanics is pretty low. Maybe I'll start my own channel.

@@setha7781 I wouldn't you'd embarrass yourself

@@kameronabbasi1203 you're probably right, good thing I've got the good people of the RU-vid comments section to tell me how to live my life

@@setha7781 I'd say that's part of diagnosing it. Don't like his work? Quit watching.

@@setha7781 Do you know why you used the word 'alarming' to describe the noise?

I hear you about clickbait: I stopped watching three channels just in the last two months because of their underwhelming content compared to what they titled on their videos especially the ones that say "I'm quitting" or "he lost it all" type of titles.

Yeah! What Todd said ☝

@@michaeldunagan8268 Or the annoying and always underwhelming "... and then THIS happened!!!!!" and the "this" was hardly anything and at the end of a 20 minute long filler video!

@@HobbyOrganist Yeah exactly or the ones that go into stream-of-consciousness to say nothing when they should be editing out their nothingness.

instablaster

If you work on a car and a month later a wheel falls its its always your fault

Discount tire always buffs the mounting surface and tries to scrape off old tape weight residue

I’d like to know where you got these statistics...

I completely agree with you man, and I know you may never read this or care. I have been a mechanic for 6 years now, I started when I was 19, and I have fought tooth and nail every day of my career dealing with my superiors and fellow technicians trying to teach me and even force me into bad habits. When it comes to the 'right way' of doing things I am majorly self taught. I never had a father or anyone in my life that I could gain exposure to any of it from, and I never had anyone that I could go to for answers. I got lucky that I had the mentor that I did in the beginning and even luckier that God put certain people on my path which blessed me with the mindset to even care for such things, but I eventually managed to get all my ASE certifications on my own and have been a certified master for over a year now (I still haven't attempted the L1 or advanced level tests, but hope to one day soon.) I have been in and out of several shops both independent and dealerships on my path to finding where I'm supposed to be. Every single shop I have worked at, if I got a wheel that was like that, I spent every bit of effort I could into getting that damn adhesive off, while everyone in the shop would haze me saying to stop wasting time or just giving me plain crazy and dirty looks over it, calling me a kiss ass or over achiever. I have always been very passionate for what I do, and want to do my absolute best in every task I do, no matter how small. NOT ONCE, until JUST NOW, November 4th of 2020 at 11 p.m., HAVE I EVER seen someone have any actual knowledge or idea of what tool to use for removing that stuff easily without causing any type of scratches to the wheel and overworking yourself/costing time. I just ordered one of those 3M wheels from amazon. This channel and Eric himself, are an absolute blessing to this planet. God bless.

@@STEROIDZZZZZZ out of his ass like most the experts in the comments

HA !

Brilliant!! :D

Groan!

An oldie but a goody

Kenny Rogers.... RIP

"Fuggedaboutit!"

That's what i do with a lot of my own vehicles.

Haha same!

He's still a New Yorker, lol

Wes probably knows the horn of every customer in hid county, lol

I'm so stealing that.

@ Yet still not at the same caliber as Scotty Kilmer...

chris fix cannot be trusted anymore LOL

@@ShainAndrewsYou can't beat Scotty Kilmer, but only because it's illegal.

@@ferrumignis LOL.

@@ferrumignis You cold claim self defense. He was hurting your ears.

Or when the compressor fires up and its [MUSIC]

Interesting, no CC available when I view this video.

Now that's cool. I've seen bad words pop up when I had CC on some time ago. Very entertaining to say the least.

Cc on RU-vid is a joke.. it's so bad

@@xoxo2008oxox Eric O needs to copyright that compressor sound!

No shit , right ?

True!!

My hubby watches these for specific issues and then goes out with a plan, it's a LOT better for his blood pressure for sure. He HATES working on cars.

I used to ride dirt bikes as a younger man, and don't do it any more, but with these new Go Pro cameras, the videos the riders put out still make me remember the days of old!! I still ride, but very infrequent and not very fast.

I do hvac, and nothing raises my blood pressure like working on cars

Mr. O is a man. True men do not wear respiratory protection.

@@SerbanCMusca-ut8ny "True men" turn their lungs into dirty vacuum cleaner bags so they can collect disability payments, ride electric scooters and attempt to keep breathing through a cannulure. Amirite?

@@thisnametooktolong I don't think that's an accurate description of Mr. O. based upon what i've seen. He does wear a hat, though.

​@@thisnametooktolong People in their fifties typically are not "the walking dead on disability"... Maybe the standards are lower where you're at and you've exceeded them? Where you coming from dude?

@@thisnametooktolong Come to CYXS. You've joined the zombie apocalypse! :-)

Did you see the impact gun done on the alloys

You do awesome work!

😂 attention to detail 🤣 .. he gets the job done!!

@@efraincruz6969 The attention to detail would be all the clean up he does that MOST places do NOT do.. and yes he does get the job done.

Right? I normally work on my own car, but I've come across a vibration issue I can't nail down so I'm looking for a mechanic. I've damn near looked at 40 mechanics and still haven't found one I trust to handle my vehicle.

We always do here in Flagstaff, AZ! Plenty snow, magnesium chloride salt and the cinders around here are year round and thick.

He is one of the very few people I'd completely trust to work on my cars

@Jason Bowman maybe I'm used to the clowns at walmart tire center that intentionally put the balance weights 180 degrees off so I had to make a second trip. i know lots of the smaller Ma/Pop shops are very good.

I used to clean the surfaces every time, especially the rotor surfaces, back when in my day we still machined the rotors on a brake lathe instead of just replacing them.

@Jason Bowman Not counting word of mouth referrals. .

Farming sometimes pays, eh?

On I-90 between Madison, WI and Rockford, IL you see all kinds of pieces of tires from semis, especially in the summer time. Recapped tires I suppose!

@@glennso47 They call them "road gators". But if you find one in an alley then they are Alley-gators

My dad has bad breath

What do you want to bet that half of these are direct quotes from his father as he was growing up. "Here comes the meat wagon" comes to mind.

Half once lol

There's always gotta be at least one "that guy". I'll admit I've been that guy a couple times but only when I see a news reporter trying to do a story.

john auld Or grandfather. Most of my quips came from my grandfather as he and I had more similar interests so I tended to spend a lot more time with my grandfather during my teens (and my father was frequently out of the country on business for extended periods), including helping him on many of his jobs (specifically HVAC and electrical, but he, like myself, tended to have many varied interests and skills - a jack of all trades that was actually quite competent in many other trades).

I laughed way too long and hard at that.

Best things hf sell

The harbor freight inner tie rod puller worked great too!

You really can't beat those jacks especially for the money and can easily be returned if it fails. SnapOn or Matco would have you waiting a week for a new one or a repair.

Dan Levesque Yes I have one also.

The Allen wrenches hand tools not the socket sets are the only tool that have badly failed me from day one too sloppy or too big for the holes everything else I ever broke or had fail me was well after the 30+ uses or I cheated and came back to bite me trying to rush a job

"6 days on the road am I gonna make it home tonight"

@@Micko350 Big wheels rollin'.... Big wheels rollin'.... OFF THE FRONT OF MY CAR !!

What if guy did it himself?

@@nrvsauto8990 Eric said he just had tires put on a week ago!

@@njrenkable trust me if made enough stink they'd cover his damage! Nobody goes back to retorque they can put anything they want on the receipt it's BS

@@njrenkable My Cavalier never made a sound. I turned a corner. hit a pot hole I didn't see in the process, and the watched my wheel roll away into another car. When I looked at it, there was no sign of damage to the studs, just no lugnuts to be found.

@@efilnikufecin2004 Anytime you have tires worked on where the rims are loosened (and the rim is not Steel) you MUST take them back to be re-tightened and no, the shop that does the work is NOT responsible. I should know i talked to a lawyer and a friend who's a judge. Both said that you agree to return the vehicle to be worked on again when you pay and leave. So they are covered by contract law.

Are you saying you would have gotten a free and instant booster seat?

I've seen more than one and this is probably one of the LEAST damaged I've seen. Must have happened at a fairly low speed.

I agree with ratbert. One of my lower cheap ebay ball joints broke while making a u turn on a small street. The knuckle is fine but I think it screwed up my upper and I then got some metal damage from the tow truck pulling it since the wheel was hitting. So not much damage at low speed. At any speed that could be really bad. When it comes to suspensions do it right the first time. Now I can do my lower ball joints without any problems. Live and learn.

@@myshots101 Luckily it was at low speed or the live part of live and learn might have ended differently. I bought Moog because of these reasons. They were a little more expensive but past experience had proven they were worth it - when you had a problem with Moog - they stood behind it. Not anymore.

@@ratbert86 True. I got the moogs now. Haven't installed the uppers yet. I'm not sure if it's the ball joint or the bushings that make a noise when reversing now. I have the uppers but think I might get the bushings once I get some money and do both at the same time since I may have to take the arm out anyway.

Vince Scalise I went to high school with a girl who specialized in “double pickle fork action.” Ahh, good times...

I just had a turkey sandwich with double pickles. Mmmm

@@Nighthawke70 EPIC.

I always like the DP action. In this case double pickles.

l would be lying if I said I haven't done it myself.

these cheap customers driving dumpy cars don't service eric's service lol. He should be fixing porsches for 250 an hour and they just OK anything.

She was too busy with the ice cream cone that Eric didnt get.

I thought She did? That was his Raise. 🧴🤛🏻😬

right!

Had it happened to me in a Chevy van about a week after getting tires on the rear. Nothing appeared out of the ordinary then one day at about 55 mph there was a slight Rumble which got really bad fast and then all sudden my tire was passing me on the highway. The time from hey did you notice that until seeing the tire rolling away was less than 1 minutes. I was actually looking for a wide spot on the shoulder to pull over then it was too late.

My dad has bad breath

Something in CT. I live in the rustbelt.

Applies to cars in all states that use salt for keeping roads passable in the snow.

@@mmi16 That's true although it seems to be worst in New York for some combination of reasons. In another century the land will become a giant iron and salt mine.

@@mmi16 The use of salt on roads is barbaric....far more danger involved when critical chassis components are destroyed by rust as opposed to good snow tires and roads cleared by snowplows only....works quite well in Norway.

Nobody ever retires and moves up North.

Aluminum wheels are supposed to be re-torqued after X number of miles. I think it is 500 miles. Not sure how many miles this customer had put on. When I worked in a tire shop, the re-torquing requirement was written on the work order. Rarely did people stop by to have it done.

So when you buy a new car or truck with zero or so miles on it with aluminum rims they all have to come back and get checked lol I've been working on cars and trucks for 29 years the reason the tire stores have that policy is because of the employees they hire and to cover there ass for the reason you see here lol

@@jasondelvecchio8720 This is what it says under the "Aluminum wheels" section of my Outback manual: "When any of the wheels is removed and replaced for tire rotation or to change a flat, always check the tightness of the wheel nuts after driving approximately 600 miles (1,000 km). If any nut is loose, tighten it to the specified torque."

Yea I did a van last summer. Lug nuts were so tight I said screw it snap em off stretched fatigued cracked studs need replaced anyways.

Last time I had tires fitted I brought my torque wrench and stayed at the shop and stopped them when they were going to fit my wheesl with an impact wrench! They found it extremely funny that I cared about them not hammering the bolts in at 200NM = less work for them. So everybody happy.

Occasionally I'll find myself moving my head around trying to see something out of frame or not straight on in the frame while watching these types of videos.

Hahaha Garry caught myself when my right thumb and index finger were twisting the lug nuts on!

@UC6pGaiPSFPB7eOD-8JwTo9g... Yep, just you.

You shouldn't do what the customer doesn't want, but you can't always do what he want's either. If it isn't safe, you have to say no.

@@fascistpedant758 yes very true indeed.

And also only what they actually need. There's much to be said for that in this day and age with everyone looking to upsell rather than serve the customer honestly.

GOOD ONE

😂

" four sturdy lug nuts, and a balance by feel"

Thanks Dave, now I can't stop singing that. LOL.

That wasn't kenny rogers. Pretty sure it was Darrel Waltrip.

Tell him if he pushes it he doesn't need his engine and gearbox either😊🙃

But you usually know long before teh wheel comes off. I drove a car where the lugs were not tightened at all, just finger tight. It made noise that was pretty obvious.

@@robertgary3561 the point this guy made is that they can be properly torqued on installation and still end up failing for a variety of reasoms

I work in England as a tech and the policy is to clean the mating surfaces of hub and wheel, add grease to hub, do wheel nuts up by hand, no power tools, torque to manufacturers specs, re torque after 15 mins. I had a wheel fall off because of I replaced front brake discs and didn't replace and torque the grub screws, turns out there is a warning from the manufacturer about this problem, the grub screws come loose and slowly loosen all the wheel nuts. When the car came into the shop and we removed the wheel after the owner put it back on, the grub screws were off and sitting in crevises in the alloy wheel. It's Renault Clio, Nissan Note, Dacia vehicles.

...and how coincidental it is that someone else with a Scubaru is having wheel issues.

I showed my nephew the magic trick after he totally rounded off a brake caliper bolt on the backside of the wheel how to take a file and file flats on it down to the next smaller size and use a 6 point wrench. That’s why I collect up 6 point box wrenches.

I'm waiting to see some forklift action, too. Often see the forklift in the background of a shot, never seen it being used. I'm guessing that it does, how else do the big items get up on or down from the mezzanine?Another viewer from across the (small) pond, in Onscario, Canada, eh....

Not everyone comes back to get there wheels retourqed

My truck calls for 500 ft-lbs on all ten lugs per wheel. There are 60 of them on the tractor alone, 40 more on a standard tandem config trailer behind. You can tag-team it, having one guy pilot the socket over each lug while the other one does the twisting, but there's no sense trying to rush the job. For my own truck, I insist on being one half of the "tag-team". That way, I know that every lug has been torqued (or re-torqued after driving 75 miles or so). I had an incident some years ago involving improperly fastened lugs, and only by pure bull$#!t luck did I not have the wheel completely separate from the truck. It damaged the aluminum rim, the pilot flanges on the hub, the studs, and they put new lugs on just because they didn't trust the threads from the old ones. That cost a small fortune that eventually got charged back to a very unhappy tire dealer near Milwaukee, Wisconsin, but I put the brunt of the blame on my own shoulders for not demanding that the fasteners be torqued. On the positive side, I can say that I survived a 3hr delay on the shoulder of the Dan Ryan Expressway without being struck by another vehicle during the afternoon rush.

It is usally the left front that comes off. Back in the day Mopar had left handed threads on the left side wheels.

@Jason Bowman Ford trucks use hub centric wheels where the center of the hub centers the wheel, and flat based lugnuts with built in washers. others use a conical base lugnut which recesses into the wheel to center the wheel. If you tighten conical lugnuts that tight it can damage the conical recess in the wheel. in contrast if you don't tighten flat base lugnuts that tight the wheel might slip a little under the lugnuts under acceleration and deceleration, this can lead to oval lugnut holes and can loosen the lugnuts over time. The bigger trucks often use the same type of bolting system for their wheels as the newer ford pickups.

I just watched RU-vid compilations of wheels falling off stuff, and unless something simply broke for whatever reason, they all are on the driver's side, which matches my personal experience.

My first car was a VW Beetle, it had left hand threads on the driver's side. I learned that the hard way.

Good to see someone bring God into the comments 🙏 Eric O is such a humble person

@@FORDTECH313 Amen.

Good comments🙏🙏

after this video, seeing the wear and worn parts (in terms of corrosion) and its still rolling? Wonder if it will withstand the desert environment. Hmm what year is this vehicle?

🤣🤣

I was a vehicle mechanic for ten years when I decided to pursue a different field but ended up training as a aircraft mechanic got a job at a aircraft factory in the Seattle area then spent the thirty years doing that. Retired 2 years ago. I still wrench on my own vehicles but no body else. Working on aircraft is no longer my profession I just work on being a retiree. I just got so tired of working on cars and trucks that I simply spent my off time for 2 years in a class room part time and three months in 8 hours a day in a Airframe and Powerplant Certification program. Best thing I ever did. One thing is get into training for what you want to do and then do it. I did.

He and the boss were yelling at each other - it was a loud argument with lots of name calling - and they finally worked it out. I think one of the boss's complaints was that Eric kept leaving polished spots on things he works on... it is aesthetically discordant because it damages the salt patina of life in New York.

@@flagmichael I too Sir , have a deep love of sarcasm ! Merry Christmas to you !