Spitting Into the Wind

Alex and I went to football in Adelong yesterday and it's a steep, windy drive all the way. I admit that I generally speed everywhere I go, we're always running late. We got home around 2pm and I noticed a knock in the front wheel, so as soon as we pulled up out the front of home, Alex checked it for me. One wheel nut was missing, another one ready to fall out, and 2 others so loose you could turn them with your fingers. Only one wheel nut was tight. I was horrified thinking about what might have happened if we'd lost a wheel while negotiating those tight curves.

About 6 weeks ago I had to get the power steering rack replaced on the car and I needed a wheel alignment afterwards. At the same time I got them to rotate the wheels. I can only assume that they forgot to tighten the nuts on the front wheel. I've never thought to check wheel nuts after I've had something done to the car in the past, you always trust those people to do the right thing, but I certainly will be checking everything from now on.

Last Saturday I drove to Sydney and home, two weeks prior to that I drove to Canberra and back, with numerous trips to Wagga and home in between. I'm just so grateful that nothing awful happened, and everything is okay now.