***** Motors Chat - Round 5*****

This might sound a little silly, but when you take a wheel off a car and just roll it across the ground, should it be perfectly flat?

I have hard points in my steering and recently when I had one of the front wheels off, I rolled it away from me across the room and it was leaning to the right very noticeably. There's three large grooves in the tyre on the right side and it was running along them, quite unusual I thought.

There's no bulges or the like and i'm thinking that's just how the tyre rolls unladen; probably runs perfectly flat under the weight of the car. It's also mounted on the alloy the right way round. Anyone see this before?

Sobanek posted this in a thread on here. What I wanted to know is this....... was that wood trim a factory option?



http://cars.donedeal.ie/cars-for-sale/2008-volvo-v50-high-spec-tax-nct/5849928

It's hideous!

Voodoomelon wrote: »

This might sound a little silly, but when you take a wheel off a car and just roll it across the ground, should it be perfectly flat?

I have hard points in my steering and recently when I had one of the front wheels off, I rolled it away from me across the room and it was leaning to the right very noticeably. There's three large grooves in the tyre on the right side and it was running along them, quite unusual I thought.

There's no bulges or the like and i'm thinking that's just how the tyre rolls unladen; probably runs perfectly flat under the weight of the car. It's also mounted on the alloy the right way round. Anyone see this before?

Often seen it voodoo, think it's to do with the side the spokes are on. Little more weight that side leans the wheel when rolling.

Finally, the BM is sold.!

OSI wrote: »

Poor CRX driver. The look of disappointment on his face when he couldn't pull away no matter how much noise his fart cannon made was priceless.

wasnt a red bodykitted del sol by any chance?

got "overtaken" myself by one when i was cruising home on the N2 at 80kph last night on my way home from footy;)

toastedpickles wrote: »

Nah hes a bmw fanboy :pac: im guessing a 7 series or 8 series

Cant he just put us out of our misery already?:(

if not an mv6 the hopefully an early e36 m3 ?

if your going to pay 3l tax you may as well get the power level it deserves lol

toyota supra 3l TT? 1800tax bracket:D


i would take one over most older gtr myself

toastedpickles wrote: »

Skyline? Supra? :eek: Oh god get a supra!

Supra would be half right :P

toastedpickles wrote: »

Right so its Japanese and a Toyota?

No, it is a SUPerb

toastedpickles wrote: »

I am very aware of that :pac: but aren't you selling this and getting something else??

Ah no I was just trolling.
Its a superb. Planning to keep it for a few weeks and then sell it.
Watch out for the ad in the next while!

The plan is to eventually replace this with a e39 540i (ideally) or something like that. If I manage to clear 12k for the superb I will look at getting an RX8