My take is it's the passenger side wheel as the diver said "Passenger window is broken out" mere seconds before the possibly missing wheel the OP posted fr 38:14 comes into view.
Kiely's car does not have hubcaps. Timestamp 44:13, AWP retrieval video.My take is it's the passenger side wheel as the diver said "Passenger window is broken out" mere seconds before the wheel the OP posted fr 38:14 comes into view. In the pic below, snipped from AWPs recovery vid at 44:14, there's a wheel on the passenger side. @RedHaus commented that LE might have changed it to prepare for extraction. That seems like a pretty difficult thing to do underwater IMO, but what do I know? I won't even change a tire on land. LOL
And you'd think the diver would have said "Passenger side wheel missing", because, well, a missing WHEEL is pretty big in my mind. A missing hubcap isn't a big deal to me as that stuff happens frequentlyish. (there's one resting against a tree down the street as we speak for the owner to notice), but a missing wheel?? How in the world does that happen?? Hmmmm... And if it DID happen, what in the world could that mean for this case?
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Thanks so much for confirming I'm not crazy. I do believe it took hours? for LE to recover her car. What did they do down there?!
Aside from being extremely difficult to replace a tire, underwater, If they had, when the car was pulled out, it most likely should have had a typical donut spare tire on it, not a tire and wheel (rim) that is a perfect match and size to the other three. I am pretty sure that, if the tire and wheel had been missing, they would have just drug it out with the three that were still okay, or used balloons to float it out.
IMO it was not removed for underwater preparation because it was the diver's video that took that shot and it appeared to be missing then. So the timing of events doesn't work out IMO for it to have been purposely removed when the car had just found by the divers mere moments before. LE isn't even in the picture at this point and the diver didn't do it.
So what we’re seeing is just part of the wheel?
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This is from AWP Kiely video — doesn’t the front passenger wheel look different than the rear?
It sort of does? I was just looking at that, after my reply to Steve. I tried to screenshot head on too, but it is all so fleeting, I'm not sure what to think?
If you could enlarge the pic, they look exactly the same, and both tires are inflated. Here are a couple of larger screenshots from the same recovery video...
What you're seeing is the wheel well.
Its a tire and rim, note the valve stem and also a rotor only would not fill the wheel well.
She mentioned it because another photo of the CRV was handed out that had different hubcapsSo what we’re seeing is just part of the wheel?
This wheel/hubcap talk is interesting because early on SS made a comment about Kiely’s hubcaps, “HER CAR DOES HAVE HONDA HUBCAPS.” I’m not sure I would ever notice someone’s hubcaps!
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