I think so but that was about 40 years ago so my memory of the event is
a bit foggy. I do remember that the wheels were pretty wobbly.
Fortunately, I had another parts donor Alpine in the garage (with a rod
through the block) that had steel wheels and I just swapped them.
Chuck Norcutt
On 5/20/2013 8:27 AM, Wayne Harridge wrote:
> 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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