Box 8 Waipu LETTERS

Death Wobble

EAR ed, A long, long time ago,1990-ish, John Reid said to me “GB, I think you and I are the only two people in NZ who understand front end geometry”. Years before that, I had a 4cyl VC Holden Commodore which had 13” wheels, and I decided to put 14s on it. The only ones with that bolt pattern were HT/HK Holden wheels, but they had a different offset, which I didn’t think too much about, but when it came to driving, it was uncontrollable, and when cornering it felt like the tyres were rolling off the inside of the rims!