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- Newsgroups: rec.autos.tech
- Path: sparky!uunet!gca!faill
- From: faill@gca.com (Peter Faill)
- Subject: Re: wheel came off!!!
- Message-ID: <1992Dec17.210003.25871@gca.com>
- Summary: my experience
- Organization: GCA Corporation
- References: <n10d1t@ofa123.fidonet.org>
- Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 21:00:03 GMT
- Lines: 25
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- In article <n10d1t@ofa123.fidonet.org>, Larry.Mc.Donald@ofa123.fidonet.org writes:
- > "Daniel U. Holbrook" <dh3q+@andrew.cmu.edu> sez:
- >
- > >>A friend's father had the right rear wheel of his Volvo come off while
- > >>he was doing about 60 on a 2 lane (each way) divided hiway. He did a 360,
- >
- > I've owned eight Volvo(e)s and have never had this problem, so
- > I don't think that it can be assumed that lug nut theft is a
- > "Volvo problem." Beauty ring theft was for a long time, though,
- > since Volvo beauty rings from '64 on back were almost identical
- > to early Ford beauty rings.
- >
-
-
- Funny you should mention wheels coming off. I've owned 5 different Volvo's
- over the past 8 years and infrequently, the exterior wheels do come off. But,
- what happens more frequently is the steering wheel coming off. Either way,
- its not much fun.
-
- Pete
- --
- Peter Faill
- GCA Corporation
- Andover, MA
- faill@gca.com
-