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Jul 17th, 2018, 15:08 | #11 |
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A chap who lived over the back from us wanted to change his old car .....he kept it in the garage which was at the bottom of his garden.
He decided he wanted a Bond three wheeler because of the economy, late 1960`s this was. Anyway he bought the Bond three wheeler and i saw him returning from where he had bought it first time arriving home.......he opened the garage doors and drove in and the front wheel went straight down into the pit ! Quite a few home mechanics had pit`s in their garages then. He was the talk of the locals.
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Jul 17th, 2018, 16:15 | #12 |
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A friend of mine has a tale that he swears is absolutely true:
He once worked with a man who decided to buy a wood burning stove; he had it fitted, bought a chain saw and axe, arranged with a local farmer to collect wood from a small plantation, put the trailer on his car and set off. When he got to the woods, he realised there was nowhere to plug in his electric chain saw.
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Jul 17th, 2018, 16:56 | #13 |
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there was me, outside welding the TR7 (wheel arches/wings and flitch plates,, you know the drill if you had a TR7) id put a nice Thick tarp up to stop anyone seeing the mig welder arcs, and set to,,
id put the tarp to cover From the pavement/road And to prevent anyone leaning over the fence behind me and getting an eye flash,, heard the fence get bumped,, stopped and welding mask up to check who/what,, Mrs next door has popped the bonnet of her rover 216vdp, nice white one pretty good nick (she hadn't parked it on a fence/gate post or otherwise bent the body at this point) asking if she/the car was ok "yes im just topping up the washers" thinking ill sit lean up the fence post roll a ciggy and have smoke while she's doing it and get back to welding when she's gone, ciggy finished and i thought ill check, to see her walking back out the garage, slam the bonnet, and get in and goto start the car,, it Didnt start,, so she tried it again, im thinking this Really doesnt sound right so waved at her to stop cranking the key,, asked her to pop the bonnet and id check something hadnt come loose when she did the washers,, thinking has she drowned the electrics or something nothing looked amiss or loose,, but there was a wetness on the engine ,, "that took 3 watering cans before it was full" she says,,"i put it in there, where it has the watering can with the drips",,,, yups she'd taken the oill filler cap off, emptied 3 x 2 gallon watering cans of water into the engine,, and cranked it like a loon,, wrote off the engine hubby wasnt Best pleased at her,, she'd had the rover 2 weeks,, due to pranging the last car on a bollard while parking and taking out the B post , both doors and the sill,, she borrowed her dads car until they could find a "lynn proof" motor to replace the waterlogged rover,, she took the rear drivers door + 1/4 out on the metal gate post at the end of their drive ,,
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Jul 17th, 2018, 18:04 | #14 |
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Dear o dear, how people can be so oblivious is unreal but, as they say, 99% of motorists don't care and just turn the key and go until something forces them to take action.
Years ago when we used to offer servicing a chap turned up smoking out the industrial estate in a very very old micro car 1.0L thing. He said his car has been serviced elsewhere and when he checked the oil level after it had been smoking for a few days, its was well over the max. He drove to a few random garages and the likes of kwik fit places, all refusing to drop some of his oil - that I do not understand. We did it without charge despite having a queue and when I checked the level before dropping, it was half way up the dip stick! No idea how someone could overfill that badly in the first place.
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Jul 18th, 2018, 23:56 | #15 |
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Years ago I had a Rover 820 that leaked oil like you wouldn’t believe (T-series engine). At one stage the sump rusted from the inside out and it was like the Exxon Valdez had taken to the roads of the Central Belt. In ‘normal’ usage it took half a litre with each tank of petrol (350-400 miles). If I tried that regime with any of the other cars I’ve owned it’d be blown oil seals, doom and disaster.
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