Roadside repairs..

[Duncan Grimmond]

I was overtaken on the offside by the nearside front wheel of my newly refurbished first Beetle. It all happened so fast, there was drop, a clunk and a scraping of a flat being worn onto the drum and I was trying to work out what had happened as the wheel shot across in front of me. I was on the centre lane of the M62 and the wheel ran to the hard shoulder and up a banking before it stopped on the way back down. Tore a newly painted wing off at the rear bolts. I found 3 of the 5 studs in the hubcap and had a couple of spares in the toolbox.
For years afterwards, I would randomly stop at any untoward noise and check the wheels, despite knowing I'd tightened them all.