Check Your Wheel Nuts

I want to share my experience with Club Together.  Can I suggest you all check the wheel nuts on your outfits at regular intervals, I will do in futrue.  I recently had a service  and my wheels were torqued up before I left the dealer, I saw him do it. Do make sure they torque for the right type of wheel, having read my handbook alimunium wheels need a higher setting than steel wheels.  I recently lost a wheel whilst towing on the A1, fortunately nobody was injured but the guy behind took the brunt of running over my wheel and it damaged his tyre wheel and suspension on teh near side front wheel, as he stopped at the same time as me he was quite polite, maybe it was the shock!  The caravan is now being repaired fortunately the motor mover and spare wheel carrier took the brunt, I was lucky that a layby was about quarter of a mile away and I could stop there.  All in all a scary experience so make sure when you have your caravan serviced you ask that the torque is set at the right setting AND check yourself 30 miles later. I was not told to check after a service or indeed was I told to check after we took delivery of our caravan. We all have enough lesure time when we holiday with our caravans so when you have a moment "lads or lassies do check your nuts!"  Finally I am not saying that the torque was wrong on my wheel after a service but as to why the wheel fell off is still a mystery. Keithster