Originally Posted by psaboic

Folks, I never said I thought someone was trying to steal my wheel/tire. What I said was lately we have had some instances in town where kids have been playing around with peoples car, and I think someone may have loosened the lugs on the one wheel just to be funny.

Anyway, that apparently was the cause of the knocking sound as once I retorqued the lug nuts, the car was fine again.