Wheels falling off was: Front wheel bearings.

["Ewan Hopkins" <ewanhopkins@hotmail.com>]

Time to wheel out (sorry for the pun) those 'wheel falling off' stories:  
my wife had a MK1 diesel golf which lost a rear wheel - fortunately she 
was doing <20mph.  Both the innner & outer bearings had collapsed, with 
no warning,  so the drum pulled right over the hub nut.  Scary stuff!

Cheers,

Ewan.
'85 2.0 Storm
'86 1.8 GT

>From: SCIROCCO87@aol.com
>Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1998 07:50:05 EST
>To: scirocco-L@scirocco.org
>Subject: Re: Front wheel bearings.
>
>In a message dated 11/16/98 12:57:03 AM Eastern Standard Time,
>skerocdriver@juno.com writes:
>
><< How can bad wheel bearings destroy a hub? Curious. >>
>From what I heard, you can get it soooo hot by running with a bad 
bearing that
>the HUB expands & warps and will no longer hold the bearing tight like 
it is
>supposed to.  That's just what I was told.  Its never happened to me.  
ON a
>related note, I know a guy that had his rear wheel fall off because his 
bad
>bearings got hot enough to break the stub axle. D'oh
>Dan May
>8716VScirocco  95.5Tacoma4x4
>http://members.aol.com/scirocco87
>
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