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Reflex steering stabilizers
The ‘return-to-center’ concept
and how it works…
Take the spring from a ballpoint pen. Hold each end
with a thumb and index finger and squeeze it toward the
middle. Feel the pressure pushing your fingers apart?
Now, gently extend the spring. Feel the pressure of the
spring pulling your fingers back to the neutral position?
That’s what physicists call ‘memory,’ or the ability of a
material to return to its original state.
Reflex Steering Stabilizers have a tempered steel
spring secured at both ends to a specially designed
and valved steering damper.
One end of the stabilizer is attached
to the tie rod, and the
other end is securely fastened to
the chassis undercarriage.
When the steering stabilizer
is compressed, the spring pushes
back to the neutral position.
When extended, the spring pulls
back to the neutral position.
Benefits Reflex provides…
• Front tire blow out — when
you blow out a front tire, your
vehicle will make an abrupt turn
toward that tire, causing you to veer into oncoming traffic
or off the road. The stabilizer reacts instantaneously
to bring the vehicle back to center.
• Crosswinds and passing traffic — works to keep
your steering centered, and prevents oversteering to
help control your vehicle more effectively.
• Road fatigue — helps you stop fighting the steering
wheel for control. The stabilizer keeps the steering
Times
By Molly Moorhead, St. Petersburg Times staff writer
Published Tuesday, June 29, 2010
This is not the time to buy a
Reflex Steering Stabilizer.
Your best insurance against the catastrophic
consequences of a front tire blow out is a Reflex
Steering Stabilizer.
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wheel centered — not you.
• Rut tracking — ruts cause you to oversteer. With
the Reflex Steering Stabilizer on board, your reactions
become easier, eliminating overcompensation when
steering out of a rut.
• Road edging — when your tire drops off the edge
of the pavement, it can startle
even the most careful driver. The
Reflex Steering Stabilizer keeps
you going straight — helping
you control the RV until you’re
back on the road.
• Pot holes and debris — with
the Reflex Steering Stabilizer in
place, the motorhome will stay
straight and go in the direction
you want, even when you
bounce through a pot hole or
other dangerous road condition.
What do our customers say?
“After installing the (Reflex) stabilizer bars, the truck
handles like a Ferrari! Unbelievable how this has changed
the unfavorable handling characteristics into a finely-tuned,
very user-friendly vehicle with exceptional road manners.
After the installation, I test-drove doing hard swerves…
like being on rails! I highly recommend adding these to your
chassis.”
— Carl Sommer, Fort Wayne, Indiana
St. Petersburg $ Jury awards Pasco family 5.6
million in Goodyear tire crash
NEW PORT RICHEY — John Schalmo was driving with his
family to his son’s graduation from boot camp in August 2004
when he felt a vibration, then a tire blow underneath his RV.
The motorhome slid down an embankment, across an interstate
on-ramp and into some trees.
Schalmo suffered multiple broken bones. His mother-inlaw’s
face was shattered. His father-in-law lost both his legs.
The family sued Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., alleging its
G159 tire was defective — prone to overheat and separate at
high rates of speed — and that Goodyear knew it.
Their case, filed in 2006, went to trial this month in New
Port Richey. After two weeks of testimony, a jury on Friday
returned a $5.6 million award for Schalmo and his family.
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The Interstate 10 crash near Chipley in the Panhandle destroyed John
Schalmo’s motorhome and injured family members in 2004. He sued Goodyear
Tire Co. “It was simply to make Goodyear admit that they’ve got a tire out
there that’s a problem,” he says.
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