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Well i went to Bathurst on the weekend, had to test out my yet unused towbar. trip up was fine, bit awkward having a clunking trailer following me though.

After loading up the trailer with furniture and heading out of town, i get about 50km from bathurst and then an almighty BANG, and the car started to lose control. i swerved all over the road fighting this car with a heavy trailer swerving and kicking around. if there was an oncoming car i would have bought the farm and there'd be a story of a stagea killing heaps of people.

i finally got it under control and pulled over, thinking the trailer had hit something or busted a tyre/axel.

turns out my tyre on the rear left had blown, and in a big way. it was proper f*cked. i turned around on the spare 'emergency' tyre and limped back to bathurst. luckily i had stored my original stock rims at my parents place in bathurst, so i changed the tyres over and drove back thismorning.

I think this is a good reason to get my really bad rear camber fixed up, as the outside of the tyre had almost 100% read left. it feels weird driving around on 16" tyres now, they're so much rmoe comfortable than 18"s

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Well i went to Bathurst on the weekend, had to test out my yet unused towbar. trip up was fine, bit awkward having a clunking trailer following me though.

After loading up the trailer with furniture and heading out of town, i get about 50km from bathurst and then an almighty BANG, and the car started to lose control. i swerved all over the road fighting this car with a heavy trailer swerving and kicking around. if there was an oncoming car i would have bought the farm and there'd be a story of a stagea killing heaps of people.

i finally got it under control and pulled over, thinking the trailer had hit something or busted a tyre/axel.

turns out my tyre on the rear left had blown, and in a big way. it was proper f*cked. i turned around on the spare 'emergency' tyre and limped back to bathurst. luckily i had stored my original stock rims at my parents place in bathurst, so i changed the tyres over and drove back thismorning.

I think this is a good reason to get my really bad rear camber fixed up, as the outside of the tyre had almost 100% read left. it feels weird driving around on 16" tyres now, they're so much rmoe comfortable than 18"s

Mmmmmm! Just looking at those tyres you are lucky to just get away with a fright. Maybe the rear camber needs attention before that manual g/box, otherwise your new tyres will be heading off down the same path.

GoldZilla Grand Master

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Lucky escape Term!

Good to hear you are safe, and that you didn't have to drive all the way back to Canberra on the space saver, too. Who knows how much extra load the trailer would have put on the space saver, as well.

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Close call mate, bet it scared the s#@t out of ya, glad you got out of it unscathed, wear on the inside of tyres is an easy thing to miss.

Might be worthgettin a rear camber kit from the group buy.

Terminal Grand Master

Terminal

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Thats just it, i had a rear camber kit installed over a year ago when i got my coilovers and sway bars installed. i'm going around there in the next few days to see what else can be done, as it's becoming a joke with the amount of tyres i'm going through

i'm just going to run around on my stockies until i can get it fixed up

Terminal Grand Master

Terminal

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getting the camber fixed next week. i saw what he's going to do on an R33 GTR today, looks the bees knees. means i'll be able to have the car lowered still, and have a trailer with no negative camber.

Tangles Grand Master

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getting the camber fixed next week. i saw what he's going to do on an R33 GTR today, looks the bees knees. means i'll be able to have the car lowered still, and have a trailer with no negative camber.

Undies thrown in for free I hope?

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