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Originally Posted by KyleGilbert45
No warning...just thud and then screeching. It happened about 3 minutes after getting it back from the mechanic and was only about 1/2 a mile away so I figure they probably just forgot to put the lugnuts back on, because we never found all of them..
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Same thing happened to a few of my friends. They were driving back from school (going about 65 mph down a highway) when all of a sudden they heard a *THUD* *SCREEEEECH* - the entire wheel fell off. No rattling, no thumping - no warning at all. It just happened.
The two only WalMart autoshop experiences I've had were bad. First, my dad bought two new tires for my car. It says, in the contract, the tech was supposed put the tires on, balance it, etc etc. About a month after I got the new tires, a friend (DJ, actually) was driving my car and parked on the street outsied of a friend's house. He lightly bumped the curb and the whole sidewall of that tire tore. It turned out the tech didn't balance the tires at all, and the whole right side of the ripped one was completely bald.
Before that, I'd gotten an oil change at WalMart. On the way home - all of a mile - the car sounded just awful. When I got home, I thought, "Man, sounds like it does when it's low on oil!" I checked the dipstick and sure enough - they'd forgotten to put oil in my car.
