Check your nuts.

[Tesla]

Chris can you check mine for me?

Not after last time...

 

[thepharcyde]

I get my butler to check mine

 

[Conscript]

Reminds me when I was driving along the M8 about to overtake a council lorry when the front driver side wheel fell off and rolled in front of me onto the central reservation. The sparks were awesome.

 

[SilverTongue]

allof you guys that have had it happen because a mechanic didn't tighten them properly, do you not loosen them and tighten them up yourself afterwards.

I know I always do, don't trust anyone else with my wheel nuts. One of the tyre fitters at Kwik-Fit in Bracknell asked why I did it so told him and he said fair enough.

 

[BigglesPiP]

allof you guys that have had it happen because a mechanic didn't tighten them properly.

This will be the main cause, also remember that a torque wrench can fail.

The bolts should be torques up with a torque wrench to the specified torque. If you see a mechanic using just a cracker-bar or a windy-gun, ask him to use a torque wrench and the torque from the poster on the wall.