Re: Rough Riding

["Graydon D. Stuckey" <graydon@apollo.gmi.edu>]

On Mon, 11 Dec 1995, Allan Tygert wrote:

> My '86 5kcstq started shaking my fillings loose today.  Yesterday we got
> about 4 or 5 inches of snow (I need new snows before I can fully  appreciate
...
> interstate and at about 60 mph, the steering wheel started shaking pretty
> bad on clear pavement.  The struts are new Boges.  The tires ar Bridgestone
> via Sears.  They were spin balanced in the last two or three months.  The
> car never did this before.  Our adnoH has done this in the past when the
> tire tread got low.  The tread on these is not as great as it once was, but
> there's gotta be 1/16" or so left.
Allan,

	First, 1/16" tread is pretty much  "none", so I would suggest new 
tires, but secondly, it could be that you got snow/ice in a wheel which 
upset the balance of the wheel.  I have had this happen before.

Later,								
Graydon D. Stuckey								
graydon@apollo.gmi.edu								
'86 Audi 5000 CS Turbo Quattro, GDS Racing Stage II				
'85 Mazda RX7 GS 12A-leaning-towards-a-13B-soon