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Date Posted: 04:04:26 12/09/02 Mon
Author: Chemikal
Subject: Re: HOLY CRAP, WTF just happened????
In reply to: chris 's message, "HOLY CRAP, WTF just happened????" on 12:28:03 10/31/02 Thu

Check your wheels, one may be loose. that happened to me on the highway, the car just started shaking. I had to tighten the wheels and then I was ok. (I had just changed my wheels and apparently one wheel wasnt tight enough. scary)

Also, how much tread is left on your tires?

>wow. um...so i was accelerating hastily, when all of a
>sudden, at about 4000rpms the car started shaking
>violently, and the RPM's just started going AWOL. i
>dunno what the hell just happened. up until then, the
>engine was running as smoothly as the day i got it
>('92 es, 161,000 miles). i cant really expalin what
>just happened.
>
>i dunno if the wheels just started slipping for some
>reason, or the tranny was trying to shift, but i had
>the pedal floored, so it freaked out. that might be it
>actually, b/c i didnt floor it right out of the gate,
>only about 10 feet later, so the tranny might have
>been in the middle of a shift when i floored it.
>
>anyone else have this problem? up till now this has
>never happened before. now i'm afraid to go drive it
>again. thanks.

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