Well had an interesting day yesterday.
The NS rear wheel hub when I bought it was notoriously hard to undo and tighten up wheel nuts. Was always something I had on the list of things to do, but in future I'll just do it from the start! However, could just be coincidence.
Either way, was driving down the M2 doing about 45mph when all of a sudden there was thing clunking happening from the rear, no vibrations unless I had my foot on the pedal, I thought great that's my rear prop doughnut gone/going, nursed it to where I could pull over and the doughnut is perfectly fine, was around the car for a while and can't notice anything until I looked at the ns rear wheel. The nuts were loose! The thread was ****ed and the wheel bolt holes were slightly elongated with fresh metal showing. Great. Just my luck. I'm especially paranoid about wheel nuts as my first car had a similar issue when I first bought it. Luckily no damage was done but it has always made me check wheel nuts whenever fitting them and taking off etc. Just the usual checks really.
Maybe somewhere down the line I didn't do them up right? I don't know. I was out the previous week and did over 100 miles and did my usual post off roading check that I didn't break anything, (I damaged the front wing where the tyre caught it) but that was the the only damage I could see.
Now, the NS rear wheel is also the wheel that is closest to my gate. Part of me think that someone came and loosened the nuts. I will hold my hands up high if it was my mistake but nothing adds up here to be honest as I'm usually very careful of this sort of thing. My area is generally okay these days, we have been burgled twice in the past (one attempt and one got inside) but they was about 15 years ago in the same month. Maybe someone has it out for me? Or maybe it's just my **** up. I don't know but I'll take it as both as I should have checked BEFORE I went out.
Just let this be a warning to anyone out there, check your wheel nuts! Could have ended horribly. Got the wheel nuts tightened up as much as I could get them with a massive heavy duty bar just to get the wheel home on the hub.
Looks like I'll be needing a new hub as the threads are ****ed. Possibly going to have to change that tyre over to my spare wheel and vice versa as the holes are not perfectly circular anymore but will get it all apart in coming days to see.