Re: 70 road runner steering wheel
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Time has come for a new one. My 7-8 year old repop is falling apart.
Any suggestions who has these?
Thanks! Which one was is it? Wood or the pebble textured plastic/rubber one? What company/ manufacture was the repop ? Pics of what happened?
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Re: 70 road runner steering wheel
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I'll post pics once I take it off. It has cracked on each side of each of the three spokes down at the base. It also appears that the plastic part of the wheel is separating from the metal center hub.
It is a manual steering car, so that means really cranking on it when the car is still, which of course I try not to do, but it is disappointing that it has broken this badly after what is probably 10k miles of use or less.
It's the pebble textured plastic one.
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Re: 70 road runner steering wheel
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I'll post pics once I take it off. It has cracked on each side of each of the three spokes down at the base. It also appears that the plastic part of the wheel is separating from the metal center hub.
It is a manual steering car, so that means really cranking on it when the car is still, which of course I try not to do, but it is disappointing that it has broken this badly after what is probably 10k miles of use or less.
It's the pebble textured plastic one. Stinks that they are cracking after 7 or so years. But in reality, I would guess originals started to show wear and tear and cracks when they were 8 years old. My 72 Dart I bought in 84 had a wheel worn out, and a cracks. And that was from a well taken care of car. I agree that the manual steering really puts some stress on the wheel.
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Re: 70 road runner steering wheel
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04/13/21 01:16 PM
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I'll post pics once I take it off. It has cracked on each side of each of the three spokes down at the base. It also appears that the plastic part of the wheel is separating from the metal center hub.
It is a manual steering car, so that means really cranking on it when the car is still, which of course I try not to do, but it is disappointing that it has broken this badly after what is probably 10k miles of use or less.
It's the pebble textured plastic one. Stinks that they are cracking after 7 or so years. But in reality, I would guess originals started to show wear and tear and cracks when they were 8 years old. My 72 Dart I bought in 84 had a wheel worn out, and a cracks. And that was from a well taken care of car. I agree that the manual steering really puts some stress on the wheel. No, it does stink. Think about the use of this, garaged, probably 10k miles on the wheel, something like that. That's nothing in terms of use of a car driven daily for that many years. And I've seen plenty of wheels cracked at the rim. Obviously this has happened to OEM wheels, but I've never seen it.
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