That happened to someone I was driving by on the highway and the wheel hit me. Almost totaled my ranger. Scary stuff.

like what was said aluminum wheels seem to be the ones that it happens to most.i know all the shops and garages use air gun on the lug nuts and some time the air pressure isn't the same. always put my lug wrench on em when I get home. they should be doin it at the garage but to much in a hurry.

If your mechanic doesnt use a torque wrench to tighten your vehicles lug nuts to the factory spec then you need to find a new mechanic.

Twice with the '07 Tundra I've had vibrations enough to cause me to pull over before the tire fell off. I check monthly now.

Torque wrench, or at a bare minimum, torque sticks for impact guns. Hammering the lug nuts on with an impact gun is for grease monkeys, not professionals.

when I changed tires we would say 60-100 miles but yes exactly especially on aluminum alloy wheels , steel is less of an issue

Have a 2006 equinox that needs tightened twice sometimes after switching out winter for summer tires or vice versa. You can torque them ten over spec and then after a bit of driving get them another half turn till torqued, some more. After a while longer you can re torque and they will still tighten some. Every time...

You guessed it, aluminum rims.

Tighten with a torque stick and then follow with a torque wrench. You might be suprised at how often the lug nut turns before the wrench clicks.

I'm in my 60's and have been changing tires on all my vehicles... and when I farmed on tractors, wagons, trucks, just about anything that had lug nuts since my dad died when I was 15. Almost always take a tire off when I took it in... cheaper that way. I have never ever had one come loose. That said when I take a long trip I usually check each wheel for the lugs to be tight. Specially if I had one off or repacked the wheel bearings. I have seen where a wheel came off when a shop or tire store worked on it. My buddy broke a shackle on a trailer in Colo this year elk hunting. Took it in to a small repair shop to get fixed. On way home back to Illinois ..... yep, he lost the tire. One time I seen where an 8 bolt wheel got loose but the lugs were to tight to work off farther than just loose. The holes were not round but oblong and had just about cut thru to the other hole. That would have been a disaster. Better to be safe and check the lugs every now and then or before a long trip.

You would run out of gas trying to find a tire shop around here that uses a torque wrench. Been driving for 49 years and never saw one use one.

I had 4 tires mounted at Walmart last week on my car. Their policicy is this.....mechanic runs them on with air, mechanic checks each nut with a torque wrench. THEN, another mechanic had to come over and recheck to torque settings. THEN, it is driven around the parking lot, and retorqued again by the original mechanic. I witnessed all this from the waiting area, and when I asked if there was a problem, I had their policy explained to me. Seemed like overkill to me.

Walmart deals with a lot of the bottom feeder dishonest people. They have these policies to help cover their rear ends in case of lawsuits.