At least it's not my car
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DrDeAtH said:
Its been 2 1/2 hours since the thread started....
Has it gone BANG yet OP?
Just off the phone to them...they're on the M25 and it's still alright so they may make it there in one piece.Has it gone BANG yet OP?
I suppose I should be happy she won't be frozen to death on the hard shoulder but part of me is slightly gutted at a missed opportunity to mock them
Still, when I get down there tonight, I'll be in the pub with the random that's driven his car into the ground so will be curious to find out what his invincible chariot is.
I drove a car with a leaky HG for over a year without trouble, just kept the coolent topped up (with water usually!). Garages (3) told me it was just my short journeys (16 mile commute) casuing the small amount of mayo, and my coolent leak was a coincidence. One day, when I pushed it particularly hard to work, I parked up and when I went to drive home several hours later it wouldn't start. Kept trying, and trying and eventually it coughed into life along with plooms of steam out the exhaust and a puddle on the floor. Filled the (empty) coolent tank back up with water and drove it for a few days until I bought a new car, and scrapped the old one.
Edited by TheBALDpuma on Friday 22 November 15:58
. (Fixed)My mum did something like this once many moons ago, driving home from work, Oil light was on, this being the days when the oil light meant STOP!, rather than, might need a top up.
So pistons welded to block and new engine from scrapyard, and b
king from my old man, was never repeated, and mums pretty good about her car and if something goes wrong she always has a look or asked dad or I to check.
Ah well.
Are they still crawling? I had a Mk2 MR2 GTI that played this game till I found a holed radiator as the culprit, many a time 2 bottles of water were carried in the boot in case
So pistons welded to block and new engine from scrapyard, and b
king from my old man, was never repeated, and mums pretty good about her car and if something goes wrong she always has a look or asked dad or I to check.Ah well.
Are they still crawling? I had a Mk2 MR2 GTI that played this game till I found a holed radiator as the culprit, many a time 2 bottles of water were carried in the boot in case
when i was younger my dad (who is a mechanic mind you) had a vauxhall carlton which he got of a client who didn't want to spend money on repairing it. It had overheating issues. despite that he chose to shed it out for several months and use it commuting to work and dropping me off at school. The bloody thing would overheat so many times, on afew occasions he did knock on random peoples doors to ask them for a pan of water.
Monkeylegend said:
Oh..... T ow job, as you were.
If I want one of those, I better not show her this thread, she's probably wondering why I'm so concerned about her progress and safety and is on the verge of thinking I'm being nice......she doesn't know the internet is waiting for an explosion
Tell her just to keep going no matter the smoke/noise from the engine. When it starts to rattle and knock and the revs seem to be falling advise her to change down through the gears but keep her foot to the floor!When its down to first and revving its tits off ram it it into reverse to blow the box as well. Once its rolled to a halt dump out a log on the drivers seat, brick on throttle pedal walk (run) away and what for the fireball. Bus home job done..
Big Rod said:
markmullen said:
Fill it with fosters.
It got one PHer home from Pistonfest in his TVR.
I know someone who ran out of water and topped their car up with pretty much anything they had to hand, including Coca Cola, urine, etc...It got one PHer home from Pistonfest in his TVR.
Got them over the Alps into Italy.
Topped up the radiator by peeing into it. However, I singed my ball bag doing it.
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