Date:         Thu, 22 Jun 2000 10:44:41 -0400
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From:         "(Donna Cassano)" <pokeswagon@blazenet.net>
Subject:      Re: Spare Tyre Bolt
Comments: To: Luke Plaizier <lukeyson@ozemail.com.au>
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You are one lucky dude!
Can I run your belly before my next road trip? ; )

Peace - donna
'84 Westy (Pepe)

Luke Plaizier wrote:

> In regard to my story about losing the Spare Wheel bolt at 65mph.....
>
> I had been on a 4WD trip that day, and I can only imagine that somehow I
> must have compressed the spring for the clip itself. Because it didn't
> hold......
>
> At 65mph, the tray actually went crashing down onto the road! It was at
> night, and the Isuzu Rodeo behind me that we had been 4WD'ing with said they
> saw loads of sparks as I began to swerve to get off the road! It made such a
> clatter that I thought my tailshaft had broken free for the first fraction
> of a second, until the brain kicked in and I realised that if that happened,
> we probably wouldn't have remained in the upright position.
>
> The small loop that the bolt fed through actually bent right back, and
> there's some substantial scratches under the tray itself.
>
> And yes, even during this, the tyre remained in it's tray. I'd hate to say
> what could have happened if it came loose and ran amok among the cars behind
> me.
>
> Luke