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Re: Jack Needed!

To: robert nanzig <rnanzig@webtv.net>
Subject: Re: Jack Needed!
From: bmounce@impop.bellatlantic.net
Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2001 13:33:22 -0400
On my S4, back at college, I had a wire wheel begin breaking spokes, and
about 1/3 of them were gone by the time I stopped.  Very scary, had a friend
and her child with me at the time.  Bill

robert nanzig wrote:

> The factory jack works VERY well for emergency tire changes. I wouldn't
> advise using it to work underneath the car, but it will get you out of a
> bind if you have a flat. Read my June 1999 feature back issue at
> www.sunbeamalpine.org. I had a flat on the way to Columbus, Ohio for a
> Brit car show.
> --------------------
>      I also found mine very easy to use when my wheel fell off which
> brings up an old subject that still haunts me. I know a number of you
> have had your wire wheel spinners fall off but has anyone else had the
> same experience I had in having the threads of the spinner strip out ? I
> meant to bring the old spinner to the Invasion for show and tell and
> then to the big Brit meet at Hickory Corners but I forgot.
>
> Rob Nanzig
> 67SV

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