I have 2000 Voyager with 200,000 miles on it. In December I had new brakes put on the the van. Two weeks later I drove from Minneapolis to Kansas City for Christmas. ON the way back home, we started having trouble controlling the vehicle. We stopped in Albert Lea, Mn to have the vehicle checked. Th…

Do you have aluminum alloy wheels? Some aluminum wheels will loosen in time. The drivers side is worse because of the rotation of the wheels tends to want to loosen the lug nuts.

The current problem may fall back onto the shop that replaced the tires. Any chance they overtightened the lugs and pulled the threads? It might be a good idea to check all of them, not just on the problem wheel. If the vehicle has alloy wheels and if the original wheel was put back onto that LR i…

Wheel lugs should be tightened until they creak while tightening, by which I mean they should emit a high pitched sound like nails on a chalkboard. For five or even four lugs to loosen, clearly they are not properly tightened. I would guess that your mechanic used an air-ratchet at too low pressure…

Maybe you’re not getting the nuts tight, or somebody is screwing around with you. Your owners manual should tell you the correct torque for tightening the nuts. Use a torque wrench, not feel (or screeching sound). Most aluminum wheels get torqued to about 100 lb/ft, but check your van for sure. …

My tire shop requests that all customers return after 100 miles for a re-torque of lug nuts…If I don’t I do it myself…trust but verify!

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Caddyman July 26, 2010, 7:04pm 6

When the mounting holes in aluminum wheels get hogged out after 220,000+ miles, the lug-nuts can no longer get the “jam fit” they must have to be secure. If all of your wheels were allowed to run loose at one point, the wheels were certainly damaged beyond repair and they never will hold torque again…The lug-nut to wheel interface must be an EXACT fit to be secure…

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