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Old Mar 5, 2008 | 03:18 PM
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Exclamation OMG!!@ The wheels fell off!!
Nope not the red FD.

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Old Mar 5, 2008 | 03:51 PM
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woah that sux. wonder how bad the damage was
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Old Mar 5, 2008 | 03:54 PM
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There goes his rotors...
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Old Mar 5, 2008 | 03:54 PM
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damn. sucks you have to be logged in to read the comments.
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Old Mar 5, 2008 | 03:56 PM
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Wow, that sucks big time.
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Old Mar 5, 2008 | 04:00 PM
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R E P O S...... wait what??


How do these things keep happening?




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Old Mar 5, 2008 | 04:15 PM
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Note to self: Test wheel new wheel mounts before going to an autocross.
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So are these guys undertorqueing the wheels? overtorquing them? WTF??
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Old Mar 5, 2008 | 07:07 PM
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I believe in the case of the red FD, they used lug nuts with the wrong thread pitch. I read it somewhere anyway.....
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Old Mar 5, 2008 | 07:34 PM
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Ouch!!!!
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Originally Posted by GoodfellaFD3S
I believe in the case of the red FD, they used lug nuts with the wrong thread pitch. I read it somewhere anyway.....
Yeah I read that too...

But I dunno, that vid shows some of the wheel studs sheared off so I kinda wonder. But man, this seems t obe plauging autocross's nation wide! lol
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