My scirocco tried to kill me!!! (long)

[mpeters6@rochester.rr.com (Marc Peterson)]

The thing was, this literally happened in the space of about 5 minutes, and
I was on the highway which gave me no chance to slow down and check things
out.

I pulled the right rear wheel, and dust cap, and that bearing was "perfect",
with the exact amount of preload...very strange.

Marc
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mash" <type53@yahoo.com>
To: "Ewan Hopkins" <ewanhopkins@hotmail.com>; <mpeters6@rochester.rr.com>;
<scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2002 9:15 AM
Subject: Re: My scirocco tried to kill me!!! (long)


> --- Ewan Hopkins <ewanhopkins@hotmail.com> wrote:
> > My Storm lost a rear bearing in the same way, just
> > went with no warning on
> > the motorway - felt really wierd.
> > My wife had a MKI Golf diesel a few years ago which
> > did the same thing not
> > long after she bought it, except that the rear wheel
> > came right off!
> > Fortunately she was doing < 10mph at the time so
> > there was no real damage.
> > Unbelievably, the brake shoes survived unscathed so
> > a replacement stub axle
> > & drum/bearings fixed it.
> >
> > Ewan Hopkins
> > '85 Storm 2.0
> > '86 GT 1.8
> > '87 GT 1.6
>
> I guess this means I better "keep my ears to the
> ground" - my luck will surely be soon running out!
>
> ;-)
>
>
> =====
> Mark Peele
> 1985 Scirocco, 1982 Scirocco, 1981 Scirocco, 1978 Scirocco, 1987 Golf GT
> http://www.scirocco2.de/mark.htm
> Direct Mail: SCIROCCO_GTX@YAHOO.COM
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> or http://thescirocco.com
>
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