My wife saw something similar this last week. She saw a car with the
passenger front wheel wobbling back and forth about 6 inches and the
passenger leaning out the window, half out of the car, trying to see why
the car was shaking. This was in the city and I assume the driver must
have clobbered a curb quite hard.
A few years back my sister in law came over and once in the house, asked
if I would look at her car as it seemed odd on the drive over from her
place. It was a Maza 626 so still a rear drive.
The rear driver's side tire was so flat it was off the rim. I jacked it
up and had to use a rope wrapped around the middle and twisted to get it
back on the bead so that I could re-inflate it.
She is also the one who parked that car in her parking spot and then the
next time she backed it out of the parking spot, it acted odd. It would
only turn in the one direction and not in the other. She called her
brother to ask him to look at it. He did and discovered that the
steering box was no longer attached to the frame. The car was so rusty
that the uni-body frame had disintigrated where the box mounted.
That was a blue car. She later had a brown one that was the same year
and model. There was no floor left in it by the time she gave it up. She
had 2X4s lenthwise under the driver's seat so that it would not fall out
onto the road. I was concerned that she might literally go through the
floor if she hit a bad pothole or rough railway tracks and kill herself.
That is long ago and she has a good job and a new vehicle now.
RB
On 07/11/2014 1:12 PM, Mitch Haley via Mercedes wrote:
Curt Raymond via Mercedes wrote:
Most people are clueless. I bet you take a glance at the car when you
get in, a coworker drove to work with a tire so soft that when she
hit a speed bump it came off the rim.
Some people seem to work at being clueless.
I noticed the car in front of me on the freeway ramp had a ferocious
wobble in the driver's front wheel. (if you can see it from 100' away,
it's BAD)
I was going to pull alongside her on the freeway and try to get her
attention, but she outran me. I gave up at 65mph (55mph national speed
limit). Less than a mile later I saw her wheel bounce down the median.
Fortunately it didn't make ti into oncoming traffic. Her brake lights
would come on, there'd be a shower of sparks from the LF brake disk,
then she'd get off the brakes, then back on the brakes and another
shower of sparks...
Mitch.
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