waltah
10+ Year Contributor
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- Mar 2, 2011
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fairfield,
Virginia
'95 GST bought two weeks ago, driven a couple hundred miles since, no major problems reported by p.o. or noted since. Returning from a short night test drive (for headlight aim) and about 1/2 mile from home on two-lane mountain road with no place to stop I hear a sudden ker-thunk ker-thunk ker-thunk, wheel rotation speed. Slow down to 5 mph or so -- there is nowhere to stop here -- it gets home okay but as I turn into the driveway I notice the ker-thunk is now associated with a slight force on the steering wheel.
Parked in my 'out of service car' slot I can see nothing obvious underneath (dark and drizzling rain ...), camber and toe are eyeball normal (as best I can tell with a flashlight) but the left front wheel looks about an inch left of where it should be. This is not good ...
Clearance between the tire and upper part of the knuckle seems unchanged but something is coming loose down there. I have no happy thoughts about just what ...
But definitely thankful that whatever it is happened where it did and at a speed of 25 mph or so. 'New' cars are always exciting but this is a bit more than I care for.
Parked in my 'out of service car' slot I can see nothing obvious underneath (dark and drizzling rain ...), camber and toe are eyeball normal (as best I can tell with a flashlight) but the left front wheel looks about an inch left of where it should be. This is not good ...
Clearance between the tire and upper part of the knuckle seems unchanged but something is coming loose down there. I have no happy thoughts about just what ...
But definitely thankful that whatever it is happened where it did and at a speed of 25 mph or so. 'New' cars are always exciting but this is a bit more than I care for.