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Wow, Steve, that is really scary! I'm glad to hear you and Ellie were not involved in an accident because of this.
If I may ask, maybe this will help me avoid the same situation. You mentioned you had removed the wheel. Did you retighten the lugnuts every 50 to 200 miles until they no longer turned? If not, I wonder if the lugnuts loosened enough to allow the wheel to move enough on the lugs to eventually sheer them off?
You mentioned not having a torque wrench so is it possible in your estimation that they were overtightened, as Trukdoc mentioned?
If you feel you did everything right, then I'm probably going to remove each of those black nut covers and check the torque each time we get ready to take off.
Thanks, Steve. I appreciate your honesty in reporting this. You have probably saved some of us some future grief.
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