🚀 go-pugleaf

RetroBBS NetNews Server

Inspired by RockSolid Light RIP Retro Guy

Article View: net.auto.tech
Article #554

Re: Wandering Nova

#554
From: henning
Date: Sat, 11 Jan 1986 19:09
11 lines
1149 bytes
****                                                                 ****
From the keys of Steve Henning, AT&T Bell Labs, Reading, PA mhuxl!smh

> My 1978 Nova (52,000 miles) "wanders" when I drive it, requiring
> constant, jerky steering wheel movement.  It feels as if the car is
> almost out of my control.  I've had this problem for quite a while, but 
> now it's so bad I'm afraid to drive the car at all.

My father-in-law had this problem on a Nova. He solved it by throwing
away the old-but-hardly-used tires and put on a set of radials.  Now,
believe-it-or-not, it handles very well.
Technical Details
Message-ID: <450@mhuxl.UUCP>
Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!mhuxv!mhuxh!mhuxi!mhuxl!smh
References: <187@drutx.UUCP>

Show Full Headers
Complete Article Headers
Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/17/84; site mhuxl.UUCP
Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!mhuxv!mhuxh!mhuxi!mhuxl!smh
From: smh@mhuxl.UUCP (henning)
Newsgroups: net.auto.tech
Subject: Re: Wandering Nova
Message-ID: <450@mhuxl.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 11-Jan-86 14:09:04 EST
Article-I.D.: mhuxl.450
Posted: Sat Jan 11 14:09:04 1986
Date-Received: Sun, 12-Jan-86 00:36:33 EST
References: <187@drutx.UUCP>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill
Lines: 11