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Old 09-25-2004, 02:12 PM
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John Struthers
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I need a 16 inch Phonedial wheel in excellent condition.
Snow took great pains in most areas while maintaining Zack's White 81',
the wheels were no exception . They look showroom.
Unfortuneately, while reassembling the White after Zack's wreck we didn't do a runout check on the wheels. When he spun out on the migrating road millings passing a PU truck and was subsequently hit on the drivers side front end the physics and geometry of the accident pushed the White -with the tires still spinning at a high rate of speed- up and over the curb.The pass.side rear wheel hit first. We figured that the curb strike was at 3 to 5 mph as the car straightened out on the sidewalk parallel to traffic with only 3 inches of lateral movement and 8 inches forward movement and the PU truck stopped as soon as it touched the curb -perpendicular to the traffic lane-.
We figured that since Zack was SMOKING the tires from the point his rear end broke loose in the grit while initiating the pass and didn't stop smokin' till he was lined-up on the sidewalk that a lot of damage had been averted due to the White 'floating' on the smoking tires.
We pulled the wheels and did an aft end survey which turned out to be spot on. We inspected the brakes, brakelines, short shafts, boots, hardware, tranny cradle, all suspension components, tranny mount, fuel tank , exhaust and hangers, ...., everything !
When I first saw the tires I thought Zack had been powerbraking with the boyz'.
This, he promptly denied, and was proven -more or less- innocent by the horrible run-out. What was odd was that at 'normal' highway speeds under 'normal' driving conditions there was no felt or driver observable wobble, wiggle, bounce, or noise. Zack only noticed it when "the wire" started slapping things in the wheelwell.
So...
I need a great looking phonedial/cookie-cutter in a 16", please.
928 Has them for about $100.00 plus shipping as a reference.
TIA



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