Date:         Sat, 27 Feb 1999 10:23:31 PST
Reply-To:     Katherine Maas <katherine_maas@HOTMAIL.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Katherine Maas <katherine_maas@HOTMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re losing wheels
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SNIP:  Date:    Wed, 24 Feb 1999 00:22:18 -0900
From:    Chris and Alina <bigsofa@ALASKA.NET>
Subject: Syncro GL: keep your eye on that wheel!

I had the rare experience of being passed on the highway by a piece of
my
van last weekend.

This happened to me many long years ago when I was driving a 1974 Kombi,
with my very small kids (fortunately strapped in).  I was driving along
a dirt road, heard weird clanking sounds coming from the front wheel,
stopped to check the tires, saw nothing, continued on and lost my wheel
in almost the exact same circumstances you did!  I had recently had my
tires rotated or something, as I remember, and I attributed this event
to the dealer having done a bad job of tightening the lugs.  I got out,
put the wheel back on myself, drove to a garage and got things tightened
up properly.  I never had another problem, and I drove that van for
another 7 or 8 years before selling it to a neighbor who in turn drove
it for about another 10 years.

Katherine Maas
about to become an owner of an 87 Westy
Vancouver, BC

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