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| posted on 14/10/06 at 05:51 PM |
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oops - wheel nuts
just a quick reminder to make sure your wheel nuts are tight BEFORE you go out for a shake down run first time after coming back off honeymoon.
I'd taken all of the wheels off and raised her onto axle stands (the car not the missus) for the duration of the honey moon and managed to
forget to tightenup the front wheel nuts. Didnt loose any, thankfully, but it certainly focused the mind when i got down the road.
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Phil. S
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| posted on 14/10/06 at 06:37 PM |
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Learnt my lesson when I was 18 (long time ago). I had the car jacked up and the wheel off. Put the wheel back on, lowered the car to the ground, and
duly forgot to tighten the nuts properly. The next day I jumped in the car and set off. While I was wondering why the steering wheel wobbled everytime
I went round a corner the front wheel fell off, and went bouncing off gracefully down the street, over someone's hedge and into their garden.
Luckily I wasn't going fast, so no damage done.
"The unexamined life is not worth living" (Socrates)
"The unlived life is not worth examining" (Kopp)
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