Car issue with wheel: turn sharply around at first (8)
Clue leads to a 9 letter word from which a letter is removed to get the 8 letter entry. I have:
O _ E_ _ _ E _...
I was lucky enough to stumble on a theme not at all familiar to me and a bit of targeted googling got me most of the rest of it - except I'm now left with a few clashes that don't seem to belong......