This could have turned out much worse...

[Tetanus]

A co-worker went to leave at lunch in her AWD Subaru wagon a little while ago. She backed out and started to turn and her rear drivers side tire/wheel came off and the car landed on it's brake rotor. There are NO lugnuts to be found anywhere. Not under the car or in the parking stall etc.

She thinks someone was trying to steal her wheel and got spooked. Would they pocket the lugnuts when they split?

I was wondering if she pissed someone off and they were trying to make her have a "bad" day. That would have been a little scary if she had made it out to the highway.

Funny part is... another co-worker and I went over to help her put it back on, using 1 lugnut from each of the remaining 3 wheels until she could get more..and she told us she didn't want us to do that. That she needed the "professionals" to do it. I mentioned that the rollback (since AWD) wouldn't be able to get into the parking garage anyway.

So the rollback shows up. Guess what he did. Yup, jacked it up, put the tire back on...drove it out of the garage and then loaded it onto the deck of rollback. (She still wanted it towed to Subaru for an inspection).

Oh, well. Good thing nobody got hurt!

 

[BigClay]

Wow, does she have nice wheels on the car that someone would really want to steal? If not, I tihnk someone was trying to make her have a real bad day...

 

[13bullets]

She...her...

That explains a lot about why "the professionals" had to do it.

The logic of what ya'll were doing couldn't be comprehended.

 

[y2kcrawler]

What constitutes as a prefessional lug nut installer? That is interesting to know how that happened. Have any security cameras at work monitoring the parking lot?

 

[Tetanus]

Wow, does she have nice wheels on the car that someone would really want to steal? If not, I tihnk someone was trying to make her have a real bad day...

I believe they're just the stock aluminum wheels. Unless someone messed up their Subaru wheel, I don't know why they'd want to steal one.

What constitutes as a prefessional lug nut installer? That is interesting to know how that happened. Have any security cameras at work monitoring the parking lot?

Not sure what a professional lug nut installer is either! I guess we aren't ASE certified mechanics so we shouldn't touch her car. And no, there aren't any cameras...yet. They recently stepped up police drive-throughs in our parking lot, we've had an increase in theft lately. I'm willing to bet their going to start thinking hard about cameras now.