Other issues are glass roofs detaching,
wheel nuts breaking, engines cutting out and Dynamic Stability Control faults.
Not exact matches
My Vitz front
wheel lug
nut broke.
My
wheel lock key socket has
broken and I am no longer able to remove the lug
nuts from my
wheel.
The loosening issue is that alu
wheels are more rigid due to having more material, and therefore, the bolt /
nut tension is lost if there's a grain of sand between the hub and the rim and the grain of sand then
breaks.
In either case, the
broken suspension parts, the chunk missing from the
wheel edge, plus the missing lug
nuts, the car is downright dangerous this way.
Turns out the
nuts had worked loose on that
wheel and one of them had even
broken the bolt it was on.
As part of their investigation CNN found that, while Greyhound has specific language in their handbook regarding a driver's responsibility to take
breaks every 150 miles traveled to stretch, check the
wheels and lug
nuts of the tires and perform some light exercise to ensure they're awake and alert, this was not actually enforced and was instead only recommended as a sort of guideline.