I feel so stupid, got home tonight and did once over again before taking to dealer and guess what freaking lug nuts were loose on rear wheel. Thank God, so I unloaded back off the trailer and drove the shit out of it to make sure and it's fixed now.
Brother. let me tell you a story.
Back in about 1985 I was rotating the tires on my Corvette and was just about done when the phone rang. I went in the house to answer it and it was my buddy. He said we got some babes coming over to party at my house in an hour, can you make it?
Being newly divorced and horny I was like "Oh hell yeah". Jumped in the shower, got cleaned up and then jumped in the Vette and headed off.
I was on Hampden Avenue which is a very busy 3 lane boulevard about 15 miles from my (then) house.
All of the sudden I hear a bam in the right rear fender well and figured I hit a rock. About 10 seconds later I hear another bam, look in the passenger rearview mirror and see something chrome bouncing behind me. It looked oddly like.... a lugnut.
Long story short the two bams were the last two log nuts. The rear wheel rode against the inner fender well and kept the wheel from completely flying off.
Yep. I had put the nuts on that last rear wheel but in my hedonistic, impulsive rush forgot that I didn't torque them down on that one wheel.
Moral of the story:
1) Sometimes really stupid stuff happens to the best of us
2) Horny hurts
3) If you try really hard, you can find four of five lug nuts you lost on a busy boulevard if you are really in a bind
And no, I didn't even score that night.
Edit: And I should add - since that day when I remove a wheel on anything I am like Rainman in triple checking the lug nuts. Seriously. I always triple check each wheel with the torque wrench 3x. One, two, three four, five. Click, click, click, click, click.
