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Posted: 5/3/2024 10:42:15 PM EDT
[Last Edit: CZ75_9MM]
Driving down the highway today and hit a huge bump in the highway going about 65-70mph. Then immediately another big bump and I noticed in my rearview mirror my spare tire is following me. I tried to slow down to get it to hit my truck and stop it but it passes me by on the left then goes across the median and onto the other side of the highway then down into a steep ditch full of tall grass and brush.
Glad I was in BFE and no other cars around. Looks like the cable broke that holds the spare up underneath of the truck. |
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FL, USA
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Posted: 5/3/2024 10:44:55 PM EDT
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Nope, but hookers in the trunk can be tricky.
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Posted: 5/3/2024 10:52:04 PM EDT
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With that horrid Chev cable mount underneath the box (a 2007), I’ve had the opposite problem. Damn thing wouldn’t lower when It needed to and I had to zip disk the cable off to get the spare tire free.
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TX, USA
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Posted: 5/3/2024 10:55:07 PM EDT
[#3]
Is OP in the Rust Belt? How old is the vehicle?
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USA
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Posted: 5/3/2024 10:56:49 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By MeInMediocrity: Is OP in the Rust Belt? How old is the vehicle? |
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AL, USA
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Posted: 5/3/2024 10:57:30 PM EDT
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I lost a spare off my 2001 F250 that way. I remember going down the road and hearing/feeling a loud bump wondering what that was. A couple days later I noticed my spare was gone.
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Posted: 5/3/2024 10:58:15 PM EDT
[Last Edit: Merlin]
[#6]
A runaway spare tire hit a coworkers truck, I-565 Huntsville AL in front of the Space and Rocket Center. Totaled the truck:
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Posted: 5/3/2024 11:00:32 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By CZ75_9MM: 2001 Dodge Ram. In the rust belt. 23 years in the rust belt wasn't a bad run. |
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Posted: 5/3/2024 11:02:12 PM EDT
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I lost the spare from under a dodge Dakota a few years back, don’t even know when I lost it . Just looked under there one day and it was gone
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Posted: 5/3/2024 11:02:50 PM EDT
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Yep , lost 2 on 2 different pickups . Both times going over rr tracks at a slower speed . They just dropped flat down and skidded 2-3 feet at most .
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USA
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Posted: 5/3/2024 11:08:09 PM EDT
[#10]
The greatest mistake Humans ever made was giving boomers access to the internet.
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Posted: 5/3/2024 11:15:01 PM EDT
[Last Edit: panzersergeant]
[#11]
Had a 2000 Chevy S-10. I was changing the oil one day and noticed the spare tire wasn't there. Cable holding it broke at some point. Don't know where the tire went.
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Posted: 5/3/2024 11:18:06 PM EDT
[#12]
It happens if you live long enough in the salt belt states.
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Posted: 5/3/2024 11:18:44 PM EDT
[#13]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By DayandNight1701: The greatest mistake Humans ever made was giving boomers access to the internet. And yet ANOTHER Marxist comes out of the closet promoting hate based on age. What a surprise. 
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Posted: 5/3/2024 11:20:04 PM EDT
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Nope. I check it every once in a while because it was loose at one point.
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Posted: 5/3/2024 11:22:18 PM EDT
[#15]
The greatest mistake boomers ever made was raising spoiled and smartass kids
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USA
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Posted: 5/3/2024 11:22:24 PM EDT
[Last Edit: DayandNight1701]
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Kent: And yet ANOTHER Marxist comes out of the closet promoting hate based on age. What a surprise. Boomer isn't an age, but mostly a mindset. "It was easy for me, so everyone it was hard for must be stupid." Your 2000 join date only reinforces my point. I work my ass off for a living, so go sit down and have some pudding. |
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Posted: 5/3/2024 11:28:17 PM EDT
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Posted: 5/3/2024 11:38:56 PM EDT
[Last Edit: Kraquine]
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Had one under my old 2004 Taco. Toyota used a cable under the bed to cinch it in place. Went to check on it one day and it was gone. The cable was frayed on the end. Have no idea where or when it came off. |
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NT, USA
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Posted: 5/3/2024 11:46:19 PM EDT
[Last Edit: TechOps]
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By DayandNight1701: The greatest mistake Humans ever made was giving boomers access to the internet. You really should get a hobby or something, maybe try to touch some grass. I know it's scary, but there's a great big world out there. I have not lost any spare tires personally, but have had the cable seized before. |
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Posted: 5/3/2024 11:50:12 PM EDT
[Last Edit: SixSquared]
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I've had part of a leaf spring fall off but never a spare tire thankfully.
"CLANG CLANG CLANG clang...." Just keep driving. |
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Posted: 5/3/2024 11:52:12 PM EDT
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My old ranger had a system that hinged down from the frame. Release a bolt and then push down. The bolt was rusted and the hinge was rusted. At some point the hinge had rusted through and the tire started to dip forward towards the cab. Someone on the road spotted it and honked and got me to pull over. The bracket holding the tire was cracked and it was only about 1 inch from making contact with the road.
Whoever the guy was that stopped me had a breaker bar and we busted the bolt loose and down it came. I grabbed it, and threw it all into the truck bed. Gave the dude 10 bucks and told him thanks. |
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Posted: 5/3/2024 11:58:58 PM EDT
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Yup...1994 Chevy Z-71.
Was there for years... Then one day on the way to work....seemed like a little excessive bump i hit. Next day it was gone. Was in a bad area for it to come off...thankfully it was 645am and probably not too many people walking around. |
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Posted: 5/4/2024 12:04:24 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By PacNW5: https://media1.tenor.com/m/oDjKT38BJG4AAAAd/kia-soul-crash-tire-crash.gif Holy fuck. |
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Posted: 5/4/2024 12:04:44 AM EDT
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Not a spare tire, but in the past couple days I have seen three F150s with the splash pan or whatever it is called hanging down. All of them seemed to be very new trucks too.
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Posted: 5/4/2024 12:05:41 AM EDT
[#25]
If you have an older vehicle in the rust belt you should probably check underneath it from time to time.
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Posted: 5/4/2024 12:11:36 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Oldmikey: I lost the spare from under a dodge Dakota a few years back, don't even know when I lost it . Just looked under there one day and it was gone Might have been stolen while parked. |
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Posted: 5/4/2024 12:12:19 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By DayandNight1701: The greatest mistake Humans ever made was giving boomers access to the internet. How much is your rent? |
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Posted: 5/4/2024 12:17:00 AM EDT
[Last Edit: Kent]
[#28]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By DayandNight1701: Boomer isn't an age, but mostly a mindset. "It was easy for me, so everyone it was hard for must be stupid." Your 2000 join date only reinforces my point. I work my ass off for a living, so go sit down and have some pudding. "Boomer" is a name for a set of people born in a certain time period. If you understood English, you might know that. Instead you get pissy thinking "working for a living" is something unusual and excuses you hating retired people. I work full time too, and I'm GenX, so take your boomer-hate attempts at division elsewhere. |
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Posted: 5/4/2024 12:18:34 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By DayandNight1701: The greatest mistake Humans ever made was giving boomers access to the internet. I always figured it was dumping massive quantities of salt on the roads, but you do you. |
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Posted: 5/4/2024 12:50:11 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By DayandNight1701: The greatest mistake Humans ever made was giving boomers access to the internet. Don't be a dick and just go fuck off somewhere else. Christ, we spend time here to get away from people like you. |
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Posted: 5/4/2024 12:58:33 AM EDT
[#31]
Nope.
But that happened while driving my 86 Accord. Darn thing was in the trunk, and the trunk was closed, I'll let you figure that one out. |
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VA, USA
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Posted: 5/4/2024 1:08:01 AM EDT
[#32]
Yes, right after leaving a tire shop and driving about 150 miles.
Hit a bump on the interstate and the spare fell out the back of my 4 Runner and skidded along behind us. No one behind us thankfully. Recovered it with no damage to the $600 wheel, unlike three of the other four that were scarred by the meth monkey who mounted our tires. |
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USA
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Posted: 5/4/2024 1:12:23 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By DayandNight1701: The greatest mistake Humans ever made was giving boomers access to the internet. Having decided this, learning to scroll would be key. |
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Posted: 5/4/2024 1:23:28 AM EDT
[#34]
Twice, same truck.
I don't remember why, but I looked under my truck and saw that the spare was missing. There was just a little bit of frayed cable on the end of the winch. I replaced the winch and spare tire. A few years later I checked again, and and again, no spare. Just frayed cable. Spare tire #3 stayed chained to the bed under the camper lid. No idea when or where the first two ended up. |
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Posted: 5/4/2024 1:24:27 AM EDT
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I have had a tire fall out of a pickup truck in front of me while doing 70 on the freeway. It bounced up higher than my hood.
Luckily I was able to brake enough that the tire hit the front grill and bumper of my SUV instead of coming through the windshield and killing my wife and I. The truck didn't stop |
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NV, USA
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Posted: 5/4/2024 1:29:03 AM EDT
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I saw that happen to a friend's 4Runner on the freeway. I was following him in my truck and happened right in front of me.
Tire jumped over the center median and head on into him. I hit a bunch of debris from his vehicle. Was totaled exactly like these pics. Luckily he was ok. |
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Posted: 5/4/2024 1:31:23 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Bullwhip2006: With that horrid Chev cable mount underneath the box (a 2007), I’ve had the opposite problem. Damn thing wouldn’t lower when It needed to and I had to zip disk the cable off to get the spare tire free. Had the tire fall off from under a suburban and fortunately I was only going 35mph. I had the use the zip disc to take down the tire crank and replace it. |
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Posted: 5/4/2024 1:33:27 AM EDT
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I lower my spare once a year and spray the cable with Boeshield T9. Hasn't fallen off and truck is pretty old. Still cranks down easily.
If you never use the mechanism and don't maintain it.... yeah they rust and break. |
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AZ, USA
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Posted: 5/4/2024 1:33:43 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By PacNW5: https://media1.tenor.com/m/oDjKT38BJG4AAAAd/kia-soul-crash-tire-crash.gif That’s nuckin futts |
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Posted: 5/4/2024 2:00:07 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By SixSquared: I've had part of a leaf spring fall off but never a spare tire thankfully. "CLANG CLANG CLANG clang...." Just keep driving. And then somebody else comes along and hits the broken spring, it flies up and goes through the windshield of another car and destroys the drivers face. After reconstruction of the face, that person lives ten years in pain, finally losing the will to live and dying days later. But, yeah, just keep driving. |
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Posted: 5/4/2024 2:02:37 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By PacNW5: https://media1.tenor.com/m/oDjKT38BJG4AAAAd/kia-soul-crash-tire-crash.gif let me guess, wheel spacers, and only pussies properly torque lug nuts |
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USA
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Posted: 5/4/2024 2:05:56 AM EDT
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Sorry I torque spec my spares with a certfied Snap-On and use purple loctite
If I had a spare tire come loose, my truck gun would come in handy Can never be too sure |
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PA, USA
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Posted: 5/4/2024 2:24:01 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Oldmikey: I lost the spare from under a dodge Dakota a few years back, don’t even know when I lost it . Just looked under there one day and it was gone This happened to my S-10 back in the day. Was looking under the truck and noticed it was gone, just a frayed, rusted through wire was all that was remaining. Still have no idea where it went. |
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Posted: 5/4/2024 2:32:31 AM EDT
[#44]
I don't live in the salt belt, so nope. My spare tire winches still work perfectly.
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Posted: 5/4/2024 2:44:08 AM EDT
[#45]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By DayandNight1701: The greatest mistake Humans ever made was giving boomers access to the internet. Thank you for your intelligent response.We can always count on you. |
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Posted: 5/4/2024 3:33:50 AM EDT
[Last Edit: PhuzzyGnu]
[#46]
Toyota uses a chain now on trucks and SUVs. The chain itself much less prone to failure but the winch mechanism is known to fail. The more it is used the more likely it is to lock up.
Rather than get five identical new tires and get into five tire rotations every 5k miles, I just got four for the road and one- the least expensive one offered- for the spare. One disadvantage of the chain is that I occasionally get to watch it swing around up in front of me all day.  Attached File |
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USA
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Posted: 5/4/2024 4:12:50 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Cardplayer: Don't be a dick and just go fuck off somewhere else. Christ, we spend time here to get away from people like you. Replies to a troll are like change to a hobo. |
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Posted: 5/4/2024 5:58:00 AM EDT
[#48]
Originally Posted By CZ75_9MM: Driving down the highway today and hit a huge bump in the highway going about 65-70mph. Then immediately another big bump and I noticed in my rearview mirror my spare tire is following me. I tried to slow down to get it to hit my truck and stop it but it passes me by on the left then goes across the median and onto the other side of the highway then down into a steep ditch full of tall grass and brush. Glad I was in BFE and no other cars around. Looks like the cable broke that holds the spare up underneath of the truck. |
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Posted: 5/4/2024 6:05:25 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By CZ75_9MM: 2001 Dodge Ram. In the rust belt. That'll do it. |
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OK, USA
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Posted: 5/4/2024 7:28:23 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By MilHouse-556: If you have an older vehicle in the rust belt you should probably check underneath it from time to time. |
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