scary trailer failure

[Chris]

So last week I was towing a trailer with a 16' boston whaler using my '99 OBW. I was about 3 miles from the harbor going toward my house at around 45mph when I started to hear what sounded like a wheel bearing. I slowed down to about 40mph and the sound got less, the BANG and the trailer started to shake and make a horrible screeching metal on metal sound. I immediately pulled over to check out the trailer. Sure enough, a wheel bearing had blown and the wheel was extremely wobbly. Since I was about 4 miles from home I figured I'd just bring it back to the harbor, I got the trailer turned around (a bit hard to do on narrow Maine roads...) and set off at 5mph back to the harbor. The whole time with a horrible metal on metal screech following me. After being pulled over for driving 5mph I finally made it back to the harbor, put the boat it the water. And as I was pulling the empty trailer back up the ramp the wheel fell off

All I could do is think what would have happened if it fell off going 45mph.

 

[09FXT]

Most of the time the wheel just rolls on by and you hope someone picks it up for you. Fortunately for us, we had a garage just down the road from us when we had it happen to our camper.

 

[Ty Ty]

We had a wheel fall off from the tag axle of our old 40ft. motorhome going down the highway once. Whole rig gave a shudder, and then a wheel went rolling on by doing about 70...haha.