Apparently You can Thread Lug nuts.. Backwards.
 

According to this guy on youtube who commented on this old video.

Apparently, his wheels fell off because he put on his lugnuts.. backwards.


jamsieballz
6 months ago 6
hahahahaha.......!!!!! id say someone didnt like this lad and losed the wheel nuts !!!!!!

420inthe604
1 month ago
@jamsieballz Or he put them on backwards

spugen
2 hours ago
@420inthe604 How the fuck do you put lug nuts on backwards? Are you stupid? They only thread one way.

420inthe604
1 hour ago
@spugen Now now, don't be an ignorant tool. I know for a fact it's possible because some goofball, very possibly the kind of character like yourself, put them on backwards. The customer then was driving on a narrow bridge in the middle of the city with her child in the back when all 4 wheels came off. It's very possible, go read a book.

I don't know if I should laugh.. or cry.
I don't even know how to reply to that.


/dumbthread.

Why bother with the youtube trolls?

Holy fucking shit........ I need sleep. I just saw your avatar and thought I saw Bradford whatshisnuts' face on her as I went to another page.


And, no, I don't smoke the good stuff.

Sleep... you need lots of it. :p

/fail

lol wtf

What is was those lugs where it a hole all the way through and one side is a tapered side.

So he put the non tapered side on the wheel and than everything broke ?


/iunno

At the same time is what boggles me.

That guy is an idiot. The lugnuts were not properly torqued and they all bailed when the tires started to turn.
It makes me wonder how this sperm won out of half a billion to produce this genius.

Man, this is super old sauce. I thought it was that the wrong size lug nuts were put on.

^ it was, parts store gave him the wrong size, threads were touching just enough to "tighten" down, not enough that they didn't just pull off when he started racing.

if they are open ended, its possible. but that would be kinda stupid as the taper is obvious that it should sit towards the wheel, not away from it.

A guy i went to highschool with thought that was how they go on - so an impact gun centers on the lug nut and goes on faster!

I dont believe that for a second. If you can torque it down to 90ft/lbs theres no way they should come off or slip in anyway.

if you put it on the other way you don't even have a hex head to work with....

^ this guy is right. and this video was from like 5+ years ago.

Well, we all know that it's old, and the whole story behind it.

It's just funny how someone would think that it happened because you put it on BACKWARDS.

Even if it's open-ended, it doesn't thread in past the first centimeter. Any idiot would figure that out.

uh... yeah it does.

if you take any nut, lug nut, lock nut, nuts with welded washers or just plain nuts in general it doesn't matter which way you put it in, it'll thread ALL the way in.