Interesting, were the broken spokes randomly distributed ?
...Wayne
>
> Reminds me of hitting a huge bump whilst rounding a curve in my '67
> Sunbeam Alpine many years ago. It broke about 1/3 of the spokes in both
> front wheels. From experience I can tell you the car is still drivable
> (slowly) with 1/3 of the spokes broken but it's not something I'd suggest
you
> repeat. :-)
>
> Chuck Norcutt
>
>
> On 5/15/2013 7:42 AM, SwissPace wrote:
> > Hi I can add myself to this - never knew lost/loose wheels was such a
> > common thing, triumph 2.5 PI driving into Shrewsbury in the '80s
> > hear/feel strange noise/feel stop get out to discover all wheel nuts
> > missing from one wheel, no tools knocked on door of nearby house
> > disturbed a couple of youngsters getting intimate but they found some
> > tools in the cellar fro me soI took one nut off each of the other
> > wheels as a get me home, I won't say who's fault it was but he shoots
> > mostly fuji now. (pal disturbed him when swappimg wheels around).
> >
> > And I was discussing cars with my boss last week and he said that that
> > morning he had a similar thing but caught it before the nuts totally
> > came off - he said a few stern words to the garage that had just
> > swapped his tyres over to summer ones.
> >
> > IanW - who has also signed official secrets act but can't say why :-)
> >
> >
> >
> > On 15/05/2013 12:02, Andrew Fildes wrote:
> >> 1. I have watched as the front left wheel of my Range Rover bounced
> >> down the road ahead of me. I took it into the ditch nicely and only
> >> needed a new disc brake rotor. Scarey though. I thought the rumble
> >> was a bad wheel bearing but no; loose nuts
> >>
> >
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