Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:29:37 GMT From: James Sweet <jamessweetnospamail.com> Subject: Re: New tyres fitted to rear?
R. Frist wrote: > Au contraire, if you remember playing with wagons or toy cars or have > ever let go of a shopping cart with a stuck wheel you may have noticed > that free wheels always tend to follow locked. A blowout in the front > will cause a slight drag to that side that can be easily corrected for. > On the other hand a blowout it the back will tend to whip the car > around before you know it. You can try this out in an ice covered > parking lot if you have rear parking brakes. Pull on the brake and > turn the wheel slightly and go for a spin. The classic 900s had true > emergency brakes. That is, they were on the front wheels. When you > pulled them on on you tended to stop in a straight line. > Not all C900's did, my '88 has the emergency brake on the rear wheels and that was long before GM screwed with the design.
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