As the title says - safe to drive on 4 out of 5 lug nuts for ~50 miles or so? About to snow and literally have no time to tear the rear brakes apart to change it till tomorrow night
Speed limits here are about 65-70 mph, and I will obviously take the corners slowly. Will my XJ spontaneously combust, or am I overthinking it?

How it happened:

I had a short time window to swap in my ZJ brakes and ran into a ton of issues due to rust. 4 hours turned into like 8 + hours for the install (parking brakes were the biggest time eater)
Got past all of the issues (except for a rusted shut and now stripped bleeder valve on the front drivers caliper, not ready to talk about that yet).

Went to put the wheels on and my new studs were grabbing a bit "tight" and all but two went on without issues. Well, I ended up cross threading one of the brand new lug-nuts after I am basically all finished up. Drove to Autozone to buy a new stud and lug-nut already but can't change it till after work tomorrow.

Already bought a set of 20 lug-nuts but they are shipping snail mail too. All new bolts but I forgot about ordering new wheel nuts for the new studs

 

I dont want to be responsible for your demise, but ive driven a vehicle with only 3 out of the 5 lug nuts for a short distance and im still here to tell the tale.

 

Absolutely do not drive it. I will say that I have driven with less then 5 lug nuts and I am still alive.

 

Id avoid it if at all possible, but.... sometimes circumstances are unavoidable.

 

I'm 80% sure that wheel won't fall off.

 

I've seen vehicles come in with only 3 lugs holding on a wheel. so yea you can putz it around but if in terms of covering my *** and yours it's not recommended. stay away from highway speeds.

 

LMAO!!!

 

I was hoping someone would catch that!!

 

I'm your huckleberry, LOL

 

Weve run racecars with only 3 or four lug nuts, and I mean run them hard. But for CYA I dont recommend unless in a race suit and 5 point harness...

 

I wouldn't do it unless you have to. I had a wheel fall off on me once and it became a very expensive trip. But some things are unavoidable. Good luck and god speed.

 

Sounds about the right number..... But 70 mph on snow covered highways numbers go way down.

 

60% of the time it works every time.

 

seems to me nascar approved 4 nuts? anybody know 4 sure. they go pretty fast!!

 

Yes, this was approved 2 seasons ago I believe. I knwo they ran 4 all of this past season. But they have equipment much superior to the average joe