A suggestion that each and every speedster owner check the steering shaft condition where it is VW factory welded to the "crush cage"on the column shaft, this is the location where the shaft exits forward of the firewall on your speedster.
Carfully, with a good light source, check for hairline cracks and or rust. Not restricted to, but a good number of the CMC/FiberFab speedters were home built and may have utlized a used steering column assembly.
Last summer I had a column crush cage snap away clean from the steering shaft! Luckly for me,this happened as I was loading a speedster on a car trailer and that was with minimal radial pressure applied to the shaft. A detailed inspection found that the shaft had cracked sometime ago ( this could have been caused by an impact while within the original donor VW or old age wear) the age of the crack was indicated by rust within the cracked area itself. The crack slowly increased in length by the constant twisting of the steering shaft during normal driving and gave way on the final 20% of the then still solid metal area of the steering crush cage area.
The alarming thing is that there was no indications of a problem (excessive play etc)and just prior to that both myself and my wife had the speedster up to some serious speed out on the highway.
Please......... take the time to pull the left front wheel and do a detailed inspection....Then,continue this inspection on the entire car...brakes,suspension,wheels,tires etc.
Yes it's a pain in the butt...However you'll feel confident in knowing that your Speedster is in top notch condition!
Be Safe!
Alan M.
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