# My tire fell off **URL:** \ **Category:** Maintenance/Repairs\ **Created:** [January 24, 2012, 3:32am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/my-tire-fell-off/70616 "2012-01-24T03:32:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![the\_same\_mountainbike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@the\_same\_mountainbike](https://community.cartalk.com/u/the_same_mountainbike)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2012, 10:35pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/my-tire-fell-off/70616/41 "2012-01-25T22:35:30Z")
I’ll bet you mumbled some rarely used expletives when you discovered that error… ---
**Author:** ![partsdave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7c8e57/32.png) [@partsdave](https://community.cartalk.com/u/partsdave)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2012, 11:08pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/my-tire-fell-off/70616/42 "2012-01-25T23:08:18Z")
I had brakes done at a local independent shop, they left all four wheels loose… I discovered after driving a couple of miles because if the awful sound they made. Ever since that incident, after a couple of weeks of being properly torqued my wheels come loose…I tighten them up by hand with the OE lug wrench (probably over-torquing), they then stay tight until the next time I have the wheels off. I suspect the cone-shaped seats in the wheels were damaged after driving with the wheels loose (lucky I didn’t strip or break any studs), hard to inspect because the seats are deep in the wheels. Someday, I’ll get around to replacing the wheels (2 or 3 are bent/warped, and they’re ugly wheels), and the studs and nuts. '97 Accord EX m/t w/ OE alloy “bottlecap” wheels ---
**Author:** ![lion9car](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/59ef9b/32.png) [@lion9car](https://community.cartalk.com/u/lion9car)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2012, 1:30am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/my-tire-fell-off/70616/43 "2012-01-26T01:30:56Z")
_partsdave wrote: Someday, I’ll get around to replacing the wheels (2 or 3 are bent/warped, and they’re ugly wheels), and the studs and nuts._ That shop should have paid for fixing the damage. It may be too late now. [Previous page](https://community.cartalk.com/t/my-tire-fell-off/70616.md?page=2)