I'm Confused!!

[Mick_VT]

I'm not sure I understand the reason for this so if anyone can help me understand I'd appriciate it. I intercepted a VK Commodore which has only 3 wheel nuts on each wheel when I asked him about it he said "it was the in thing". Does anyone do this? If they do can you please explain to me why because it confuses the hell outa me. However I thought this might be a once off until I saw another vehicle a Nissan Skyline R33 close to the Train Station in my area and it also had 3 wheel nuts on each wheel. Please Help?

[Tom_1569]

They are ****ing nobs, theres nothing more to it.
Why anyone would drive around with 3 wheel nuts on and compromise safety, damaging there car, and hurting/killing someone or themselves because "it is the in thing" is beyond me, and plain stupid.
It would put so much more strain onto the 3 wheel studs, and is just asking for trouble.

[eurekamad94]

might have a diffrent stud pattern to fit diffrent wheels ....

[fuzzy2308]

Ha ha ah ha thasts gold man pure diggy gold i love it. 3 wheel nuts what a dickloven wanker u should have gave him the phone book treatment to smack some sence into him

[Grennan]

Were all four wheels like that or only the backs? My assumption is they were probally on the back so they could easily remove the rear wheels when they go do burnouts or something. Nonetheless sounds pretty moronic. I always check ive got nuts on mine everytime i fill the car up with petrol/check the tyre pressures.

[badaz]

What the ! how stupid are some people.

[1vngal]

what a dickloven wanker u should have gave him the phone book treatment to smack some sence into him

Gotta agree with you there mate. Bring back the more 'old school' type of poilcing. None of this soft **** approach that the police force is made to use nowdays. Crims should fear the police and not be able to walk around with their heads held high thinking they can't be touched due to regulations on the way 'issues' are dealt with.

[Jo3_Blo]

What. The. ****. ?.

?????? I have never heard of that before........gesus, what a knob.

And as someone said they do it for burnouts, but is two more nuts make any real difference? they're only a few seconds each to remove. And plus, an even higher risk of damage/accident when doing burnouts.............

[minux]

We can only hope that these brain dead idiots do not take out someone else with their idiocy.

[TVR-190]

should of defected them, stupid gits

[Tsunamix]

Im pretty sure it's actually illegal. Your supposed to have wheels mounted in the factory specified manner. Changing this by adding spacer plates is illegal, so changing it by using less than the recommended mounts would be too.

Besides. Chances are that the increased load will stretch the studs, making the wheel out of balance and causing a stud to shear off, resulting in an innocent bystander wearing a wheel for a hat at 70kmh, and a minivan on the way to school being buttsecksed by a car full of idiots. Defect the car. Defect the brain of the driver for driving an unroadworthy vehicle. Defect the brain of the other occupants for letting that idiot drive. Then defect the main roads dept for letting the human spanner get a licence from them.

Other things that are illegal that need policing - Non working tail lights - high line stop lights don't count as the australian design laws require the tail lights to be on the outermost corners of the body.

Non working indicators. A car is only considered roadworthy if all indicators work, not just some.

Bald tyres / Bald spare. Weirdly - no spare is legal, but a bald spare is not. How to double your stopping distance in the wet without trying.

Window tints - The law requires that the window tint is light enough so that when beside the vehicle, you can see through the glass to notice approaching vehicles. What happens if it's a truck or a van or a bloody 4 wheel drive ? Change this one - but until it's changed, police it.

Failure to keep left - At speeds of 80KMH or greater, you must keep left. No if's buts or maybe's. Quite being a road hog and get the FU*K over !.

Turning - The law states - when turning, you must turn from as near as possible to the edge of the road. Swerving right to turn left is illegal. Turning left from the middle of the lane is illegal. Get over to the edge of the road so you don't block it for FU*KS sake.

Car parks - are public access land and the road laws apply here. Don't stop in the middle of a lane while you wait for someone to pull out - keep moving so you don't block the lane you tool. Not only is it uillegal it's bad manners and you deserve a crowbar through the fuel tank for it.

The way I was taught was this - Drive so that what you do, impedes those around you as little as humanly possible. Dont drive too fast or too slow. Consider others. And for chris'ts sake, let others drive around you easily.

/end rant.

[Stressball]

Failure to keep left - At speeds of 80KMH or greater, you must keep left. No if's buts or maybe's. Quite being a road hog and get the FU*K over !

Just as an aside, it's 90kmh up here in QLD, not 80kmh or over.

[VT-565]

We can only hope that these brain dead idiots do not take out someone else with their idiocy.

Lets hope they don't fuggen reproduce, more like it!

[Tsunamix]

Hmm... Because im in QLD i thought i'd check on the road rules about keeping left...

Turns out there isnt a specific speed limit, it applies at all speeds.

found this - "On a motorway you must - not drive in the right lane unless overtaking, avoiding an obstruction or travelling in congested traffic" http://www.transport.qld.gov.au/reso...ules_partC.pdf page 87'


I also found this -

You Must - be prepared to give way to vehicles already on the motorway as you
enter along the on-ramp.

Interesting - on ramps are NOT merges.

I recommend people go along and have a look.


In penalties I found this - Failing to keep left in any other case - 2 demerit points

[Stressball]

Hmm... Because im in QLD i thought i'd check on the road rules about keeping left...

Turns out there isnt a specific speed limit, it applies at all speeds.

No it doesn't. Read it carefully; on two-way roads, 'keep as close to left as practical' ie. don't hit your right wing mirror on the oncoming car's wing mirror.
Then it goes on to say that on a multi-lane road *where the speed limit is more than 80km/h* you must keep left except for in those particular circumstances.

Common courtesy would tell you to keep in the left lane regardless of speed; the law does not.

[Tom_1569]

Common courtesy would tell you to keep in the left lane regardless of speed; the law does not.

We have a road down here, no one uses the rleft hand lane. Its full of pot holes and those work pit things, not sure what they are but they give access to the water lines under the road, also has heaps of rises and crap. You get one slow person in the right lane and its a long trip down that road.

[lukieboy]

only three nut you say................what they used two to replace their own .....shotcommings???????? ****in morons and i dont think a phone book is thick enough to get some sence into idiots like that

just when i thought i had heard it all

[minux]

Failure to keep left - At speeds of 80KMH or greater, you must keep left. No if's buts or maybe's. Quite being a road hog and get the FU*K over !.

In Vic also its in zones OVER 80 km/h so 90 zones and above.

[Tsunamix]

Peoples. go read page 87 not page 84. I gotta admit, that a rode code that has 2 different things in 2 different places is as confusing as hell.

However it clearly says that motorways and highways have a different rule. Go figure.

Quotes

When you drive on a multi-lane road where the speed limit is
more than 80 km/h, you must not travel in the far right lane
unless you are:
overtaking
turning right
making a U-turn
avoiding an obstacle
driving in congested traffic.
You could be fined for driving in the right-hand lane.

On a motorway you must:
be prepared to give way to vehicles already on the motorway as you
enter along the on-ramp
not stop except in an emergency or if you break down. If you must stop, use the
emergency lane or bay and switch on your hazard lights
not travel in the emergency lane
not make U-turns
not reverse
not drive in the right lane unless overtaking, avoiding an obstruction or travelling
in congested traffic
check behind and signal before you overtake
signal for long enough to give sufficient warning to other road users before you
change lanes
enter the exit lane and slow to the appropriate speed when you are about to
leave the motorway

http://www.transport.qld.gov.au/reso...ules_partC.pdf

[minux]

Dude, a motorway as defined by Queensland Transport is a divided Highway(generally at least 100 km/h).

[ScoHar]

3 wheel nuts is phat, 2 even better, joking...what are these idiots thinking? saving weight LOL

[vlv8vic]

In Vic also its in zones OVER 80 km/h so 90 zones and above.

also if posted. you'll notice next time you are down this way that the highway through town is 70, but is posted every few 100m that you must keep left unless overtaking. doesn't stop people grannying along in the rh lane though.

OP-
As for the wheel nuts - given the number of heroes we have here, to see none of them support this 'in thing' makes me think you may have found some strange little cult of absolute tossers who wouldn't know the 'in thing' if it jumped up and slit their throat.

[Stressball]

Peoples. go read page 87 not page 84.

Hmm... Because im in QLD i thought i'd check on the road rules about keeping left...

Turns out there isnt a specific speed limit, it applies at all speeds.

You are referring to motorways in that second quote then? Because you didn't mention them specifically. That's why the people who responded replied as if the case were a normal multi-lane road.

Perhaps it should have read,

Hmm... Because im in QLD i thought i'd check on the road rules about keeping left...

Turns out there isnt a specific speed limit, it applies at all speeds on a motorway or highway.

[DannyboyDS]

These guys must have slipped into the gene pool while the lifeguard was on a lunch break.

Above someone metntioned extra strain on the wheel studs causing them to stretch, that was my first thought as well, next comes bearing failure, then you will lose a wheel.

I hope these guys realise they are tossers only when it is too late and they need to fork out for new bearings.

Mick if you want to understand you probably would be better off asking them where they got the idea from, I'd never heard of it before but it sure is disapointing to think people are really that stupid.

did they have the other wheel studs poking through? or had they "shaved" them off?

[coolvxss]

they prob cut 2 studs off so car has less weight