Wheel Studs Broke - Truck Rolled

Was coming home yesterday pulling a 16' trailer loaded with fiberglass insulation. Probably one of the lightest loads you could pull.


My rear passenger side wheel came off and I fish tailed. Tried counter steering. Couldn't figure out why it wasn't really helping until learning the wheel had gone afterwards. Trucked turned sideways at 60mph and I rolled several times. Ended up climbing out of my driver's window. This was yesterday... I'm sore, but alive.

It looked like the studs sheared clean off. Has there been any other report or recalls on for this or related?

 

Glad you’re alive and only sore, God knows it could’ve been much worse. Scary to think about!

 

Holy crap! You’re lucky to be alive! Quick go to Vegas.

 

Damn! saw a guy do basically the same thing some years ago. Same results. He walked away as well. Glad it wasn’t any worse. Who’s been rotating your tires? Studs being over torqued over the years, causing metal fatigue?

 

This truck is brand new to me. I bought it two months ago... as a replacement vehicle after getting my van totaled by an 18 wheeler. The tires were new and the previous owner only put 3000 miles on the tires. I suspect the tire shop just put a impact gun on them. Unfortunately, I don't have any real way to go after them. I changed insurance plans while on the road and declined the collision insurance so I could pull it up online later and decide how much/what deductible I wanted to pay... I never did.

I have comprehensive coverage... but that doesn't seem to cover this.

This has become a total loss for me.

 

glad you're alive. sorry about your best-gen.

 

That definitely sucks! But you walked away too move on too bigger and better things…. It can be replaced…. You not so much….

 

So sorry to hear this. To answer your question, I haven't seen another member report this issue. We've had a lot of lower ball joint failures but this is the first time I've seen studs snap like this. Glad you're ok.

 

My son's Civic, a 2012 beater for college, had cracked studs on every wheel after some tire shop overtightened them somewhere before buying the car. Careless and dangerous by whatever that place was.

So sorry for the loss. But so thankful you walked away, brother.

 

Yeah, unfortunately this has over torqued nuts written all over it. Glad to hear you weren't injured worse.

 

Sorry to hear about your loss. Glad you’re okay. There’s probably evidence of the other wheel studs having stress fractures if that helps you in seeking out those responsible. As stated from others, there’s a high probability it’s from over torquing of the wheel lugs.

 

Jeez, glad you’re alive!

My guess is there was some over tightening or something that caused the issue before you owned it. Wheel studs don’t just sheer like that for no good reason.

 

Wow! Glad you're okay. Bummer about the truck and the coverage, but it can be replaced.

 

I’d say that your wheel was loose leading up it’s departure. Looking closely at your picture, you can see some evidence of fretting on both the pilot and hub face of the axle flange.

Do you know wheels are those are ? I can’t make out if if they are a newer Tacoma or 4Runner wheel, or if they’re aftermarket. I do wonder if the correct wheel nuts were used for whatever wheels they are. Might be worth investigating.

That insurance thing is a kick to the tender bits at this point, but it’s always a good day when you can walk away from a roll-over.

 

I wonder if someone oiled the threads at some point and that led to stud stretch. A lug from another wheel could be pulled and checked for oil if it was a recent error.

 

Glad you are OK.
Sorry about your tundra.

Looks like aftermarket wheels..
Do you know the wheel offset?
Did the truck have wheel spacers on it?

I miss my 2005...

 

Yikes. Glad you’re ok. Bummer about the truck.

Have you ruled out the wheel breaking off as a result of the rollover?

poorly loaded trailer and too light tongue weight?

 

Glad you're ok!

 

That just sucks. Sorry about the loss. Glad you are okay. That hits hard.

I have a friend that had a stud break on one of his wheels last week. It broke was hardly any effort. The rest were extremely tight. He even broke a 20 year old 4 way wrench and a breaker bar trying to get the rest of his lugs off that one tire.

 

I've had tire shops shear off every stud but one on my wife's car. This is probably what happened to you.

 

First thing I did when I bought my 2013 GX was replace the lug studs. Would encourage others to do the same every 10 years or less.

 

I'm happy that you're ok. That had to be one scary ride! I'm sorry about the loss of the truck and trailer for you. Financially that'll leave a mark. In the end, however, the truck and trailer can be easily replaced. You cannot be replaced at all.
FWIW, I agree with the cause of the wheel stud failure in your case. All too common issue due to improper torque values/equipment/knowledge employed when mounting wheels.

 

Glad to hear you are all right...

 

Glad you made it out in one piece!!

 

As much as this entire thing sucks, and while the messages of "Glad you're okay, truck can be replaced, you can't" won't bring the truck back or make the situation better, you're all absolutely right.

A damn swell group so much that I ought to go back out and get another Gen 1 just to stay apart of this community.

 

Dang man. Glad you’re ok. Could’ve been a lot worse.

pretty ringing endorsement for another Yota to jackknife/ roll like that and walk away from it.

 

You don’t have to ignore the 2nd, 2.5th, or 3rd gens to get that. Well, maybe it is too soon to know for the 3rd gens.

 

Glad you survived.

I highly doubt that the studs all broke at once. I had replaced my wheel studs in place for longer ones. The front axles I used a large wrench to hand tighten the nuts in order to seat the studs. It was a bitch to do it by hand so I decided I’ll use my impact gun. It made quick work of the rear axles, although I knew that I overtightened the passenger rear wheel. I then drive to Moab to go wheeling. On the way home from Moab I noticed the truck was driving weird on the highway. I pull over and find out that 4 of the 5 studs had snapped off. I'm sure the studs broke off one at a time while I was wheeling. If the 5th one snapped I believe I would've had the same accident as you.

 

I've taken to MOUNTING my own tires, with tire irons. Won't go to a shop for anything but an alignment.