OT: My Job Interview

Drum brakes on the back, right? Or it would have screwed up the rotor, I'd imagine.

Best regards, Spehro Pefhany

I must admit the first thing I thought of was Spud's job interview from _Trainspotting_ . Hopefully that was far from reality.

Best regards, Spehro Pefhany

I had it happen in DC about 300mi from where and 48 hours after the knuckleheads did their work. Fortunately, I caught it before I lost a wheel (all four were loose). The care acted "funny". A couple of years ago my wife lost a wheel the same day the car had its annual safety inspection (about two weeks after the snows went on for the season). That one messed up the quarter-panel, all the lugs, and a year-old Haakapalita. Knuckleheads are everywhere.

People are not making fun of Guy because of his name, they are making fun of his name because he's acting like a knob.

Best regards, Spehro Pefhany

As a long time knob in good standing, I take offense at the mere notion that GM is in any way knob-like. I demand a full retraction and apology. Acting like a knob, indeed! An insult to knobs everywhere.

Bob

My wife's snows (the Haaks) were done at Costco. They (nominally) use a torque-wrench too. The manager looks up the specs and usually did the check. There is a disclaimer that says that they should be re- torqued after 50 miles. I wonder how many bring them back?

I'm sure it's happened to them all. I know a certified mechanic who forgot the last half of an oil change. Cost his employer $5K for a new engine.

I understand that some aluminum wheels creep and have to be re-torqued periodically. I was advised to have these re-torqued every oil change, after the wheel went missing. I've since ditched the car; problem solved.

I think the Miata is pretty much the same thing, done right and with modern technology. I drove down to Florida in one a few years back-- lots of fun. They even come in BRG, but that's going a bit too far.

Best regards, Spehro Pefhany

I bought a Miata in BRG with a biscuit top for my wife. She loves it, but still has an MGB and a 50 MGTD. Life's too short to drive crappy cars or to drink bad wines.

Don

There are certain emotionally crippled people who find themselves unable to make their way through life without turning every interaction into a fight. The can often be identified by their use of namecalling and making up "funny" spellings of someone's name. Hhere is a quote from an interesting study that identifies what is really going on when they act this way:

"The most hostile group was the one with high but unstable self esteem. These people think well of themselves in general, but their self-esteem fluctuates. They are especially prone to react defensively to ego threats, and they are also more prone to hostility, anger and aggression than other people.

"These findings shed considerable light on the psychology of the bully. Hostile people do not have low self esteem; on the contrary, they think highly of themselves, But their favorable view of themselves is not held with total conviction, and it goes up and down in response to daily events. The bully has a chip on his shoulder because he thinks you might want to deflate his favorable self image."

-Roy F. Baumeister, _Evil: Inside Human Violence and Cruelty_ p 149

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What's all that green stuff ?:-)

My dogs go ape over dry-roasted peanuts... if I open the jar on my desk they come running from anywhere in the house.

...Jim Thompson

And now for the Trondheim Hammer Dance, where the old ladies have their boots tied around their necks, and are thrown into the fjords......

John, you should know better than to buy tires from a place called "Fine, Howard & Fine"! ;-)

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Rich, to be honest, I have one suspicion, that some of these guys were reading this NG, since they know Watson, or maybe searched in Google groups for messages with your name. Now you have been always open about your habits. Short, when you were making them laugh, they were thinking: wow, this guy is *really* stoned. You always see what you expect, and then you might as well have smoked something before. How did the story end?

Your premise is defective. I'm actually defending you against those who are effectively saying you *are* a knob. See the difference?

Best regards, Spehro Pefhany

Hey, what exactly is a fathead anyway :)

Guy, you should be angry with your parents. They not only gave you a funny last name, that was not their choice, but then also this first name. You must have suffered a lot. Do not project it onto people, see it clear. And your pertinent behaviour provokes these kind of reactions. Why don't you invent an unsuspicious name like Bob Smith. Nobody will make fun with your name then.

"John Larkin" wrote in message news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com...

I had a similar experience some years ago. The amazing thing to me, was that it worked just like Disney shows. I was going down a fairly steep hill, and suddenly out of my right hand peripheral vision, saw this wheel going past. I had time to think 'that looks familiar', when then the car dropped at the back. Exactly as is shown in the cartoons, where the coyote never falls, till he realises there is nothing below him... Unlike you, I had gone about ten miles, including a section at high speed before it happened. The thought that the wheel could have come adrift then was quite unnerving. Since the failure spot was in the 'middle of nowhere', I ended up retrieving the wheel, and fortunately had four spare nuts (I had fitted locking wheel nuts, and had kept the original nuts when these were fitted), so refittd the wheel, went home, and then had a good 'swear' over the phone at the tyre company concerned... As another posted has guessed, I had drum rear brakes, as did the old Midgets, so aside from a fairly generous 'flat' on one edge of the drum, and on the backing plate, no real damage was done.

Best Wishes

This appears to be fairly common. I had it happen at the amusingly named Big O Tires in Castro Valley. The lugs were on, but not tightened, so the tire shifted, and it destroyed the hub. I had driven it on the freeway.

About a week later, there was a story in the newspaper about a guy who was killed by a head-on collision with a tire, which came off a car going in the opposite direction on the freeway (238, again near CV.)

I used to go over my airplane with a fine tooth comb after an annual. When I get my car worked on, I just jump in it and drive off at 80.

They are waiting for the drug tests.........

martin