Steering Faults
Steering faults are frequently ignored until they are imperatively serious. It might be noticed that there is wheel wobble or that the steering has become stiff or has too much play, but the trouble is not so pronounced that the car is difficult to handle on good roads. The careless motorist might say to himself, “It’s nothing to worry about; I’ll have it fixed if it gets worse.”
Yet there might come an emergency when safety depends on a sudden swerve, the immediate response, of the steering, or precisely accurate driving through a narrow avenue of escape as, for example, a width of road which leaves only inches to spare between an oncoming vehicle and the ditch. Then it is that looseness in the steering gear, and consequent play in the wheel or stiffness owing to underinflated tyres or other causes, might be the undoing of the most alert driver.
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Northern Advocate, 28 November 1936, Page 3 (Supplement)
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152Steering Faults Northern Advocate, 28 November 1936, Page 3 (Supplement)
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