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 helbus
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 posted on September 23rd, 2003 at 09:40 PM |
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Blowout
Fleur had a blowout tyre in the beetle yesterday on the Eastern Freeway. It was pretty severe as she was going 100 at the time. She felt a vibration
and a few seconds later a bang, then the wheel totally locked up. It was the left hand rear tyre. I had taken the spare out to get it changed with
another tyre, because it was bald.
So I went and got the other wheel from home and took it to her.
When I took the wheel off I could see the inner tube had come out of the rim and wrapped itself around the axle and in doing so, pulled the hand brake
cable tight against the axle and locked the left hand rear wheel.
Lucky it didn't go into a spin?
Then I found a couple of wheel nuts were dodgy. Had to steal a couple of nuts from elsewhere. :o
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| posted on September 23rd, 2003 at 09:46 PM |
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glad she's safe, could have been nasty!
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| posted on September 23rd, 2003 at 09:50 PM |
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damn... go tubeless> some bugger put a tube in my tyre in Katherine and it lasted alll the way up the main road and about 3 ks up onto the stuart
highway. tubes are for WHEELBARROWS (or non tubelesss tyres  )
let sleeping dubs lie
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helbus
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| posted on September 23rd, 2003 at 09:50 PM |
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When the rear tyre locked up it fully wore the tyre out until it had a complete hole in it.
She said there was heaps of smoke, doesn't know how she got off the freeway, but stopped in about 100 metres from 100kmh, without applying the
brakes herself. :o
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helbus
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| posted on September 23rd, 2003 at 09:55 PM |
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A friend who is getting a set of second hand mags for her beetle is giving us her set. I have a friend who will take them off the rims for me, another
who is going to sandblast them, and then I will paint them a nice two pack and put them back on definitley tubeless, ad defintley a spare.
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| posted on September 23rd, 2003 at 09:57 PM |
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could've been much, much worse...
THe MC Bat Commander's motto: "Never do now, what you could do for 24 hours straight, all night, the night before."
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helbus
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| posted on September 23rd, 2003 at 10:03 PM |
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Sounds like we should all check our tyres more often. The EH and the bus have new mags and tyres, so I feel ok about them. 
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| posted on September 23rd, 2003 at 10:09 PM |
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Glad to hear Fleurs OK
Hope it was not in peak hour, it can be even worse along there then:o |
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helbus
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| posted on September 23rd, 2003 at 10:13 PM |
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It was quarter to nine and very much peak hour. :o
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| posted on September 23rd, 2003 at 10:50 PM |
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eeeep :o
go buy a lottery ticket dude :thumb
and cos i told you to i expect remuneration
let sleeping dubs lie
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| posted on September 23rd, 2003 at 10:55 PM |
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she got up to 100 kmh in bound on the eastern in peak hour !?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!
i think u deffinately should buy a lottery ticket !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Glad all is well !:bounce
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helbus
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| posted on September 23rd, 2003 at 11:00 PM |
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Do you have to buy a ticket? I have been wondering all these years why I haven't won
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| posted on September 23rd, 2003 at 11:15 PM |
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Glad to hear shes OK! That would've been one hell of a hair raising exprience!
...and Robert's ya father's brother...
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| posted on September 24th, 2003 at 12:49 AM |
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That's crazy man. Glad she's okay.
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| posted on September 24th, 2003 at 11:04 AM |
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good to her she's ok also anychance of you posting some pics of your EH ?? my lil bro wants to buy one but he cant get any good pictures of em to
get a good idea of what they look like thanks
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| posted on September 24th, 2003 at 12:38 PM |
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Jeez Pete. Glad to hear fleur is ok. time to get some mags for the beetle too huh?
Steven
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| posted on September 24th, 2003 at 01:55 PM |
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Cars can always be fixed, but sometimes people can't, so thank heavens Fleur is fine and healthy.
If you can't laugh at yourself you can't laugh at anyone else! Because life is to short not to LAUGH
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| posted on September 24th, 2003 at 04:51 PM |
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'When the rear tyre locked up it fully wore the tyre out until it had a complete hole in it.
She said there was heaps of smoke, doesn't know how she got off the freeway, but stopped in about 100 metres from 100kmh, without applying the
brakes herself. '
Thats why she didnt spin it!
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| posted on September 24th, 2003 at 09:34 PM |
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Aha it all makes sense. If she applied the brakes herself then possibly both back wheels would have locked up and a spin would have occured.
Then we would be :cry
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