It's happened to me at last!
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Sorry for the cryptic title but this could be helpful to any of us. I'd put this in the chim section but I've repeated here too.
So, for the first time in my driving life (quite a few decades in fact), I found myself sitting at the roadside awaiting vehicle recovery. Usually I don't have it and trust to luck, but this time it came with the classicline insurance cover. I digress.
I was making good progress west along the A14 to home, all intentions of making a good mpg coastal daytrip given up with, when POP! WHOOSH! ..WTF! an oil smell, look back, plenty, plenty smoke, gauges all normal, no warning lights, bit of throttle - still fine. Very luckily a big layby to dive into. Leapt out expecting fire, looked under to see a torrent of oil from the sump, quickly switched off. An impressively spreading pool of Valvolene's finest besmirching the near pristine concrete, looked like a crude and emphatic full stop to the day's fun. Game over.
This is not unknown to Chim and Griff owners. Earlier on in the day I'd caught the underside on a very rough track harbourside at Southwold. An unseen bar of thick steel exposed from the ground was the culprit, I'd got out and checked the underside and declared an ARB strike, it is a low point after all. Well you've all joined the dots by now.
I called Classicline with my phone battery dwindling, told the friendly chap the problem and location, which he confirmed back to me. It seems he then proceeded to inform the recovery firm that I was somewhere other than I'd described and that I have a fuelling issue. In spite this chap's help, the excellent and very efficient recovery man did manage to find me (after some effort) and deliver me and my very oily car back home. And of course, my neighbours, even at gone 11PM, were outside to witness the rare sight of my TVR gracing the back of low loader. Great.
In due course, I'd like to find a socket sump plug with magnet attatched, but for now I'm making do with a brass plumbing fitting (pt no. 98635) from screwfix for the princely sum of £1.15. Keep a close eye on your plugs people.
So, for the first time in my driving life (quite a few decades in fact), I found myself sitting at the roadside awaiting vehicle recovery. Usually I don't have it and trust to luck, but this time it came with the classicline insurance cover. I digress.
I was making good progress west along the A14 to home, all intentions of making a good mpg coastal daytrip given up with, when POP! WHOOSH! ..WTF! an oil smell, look back, plenty, plenty smoke, gauges all normal, no warning lights, bit of throttle - still fine. Very luckily a big layby to dive into. Leapt out expecting fire, looked under to see a torrent of oil from the sump, quickly switched off. An impressively spreading pool of Valvolene's finest besmirching the near pristine concrete, looked like a crude and emphatic full stop to the day's fun. Game over.
This is not unknown to Chim and Griff owners. Earlier on in the day I'd caught the underside on a very rough track harbourside at Southwold. An unseen bar of thick steel exposed from the ground was the culprit, I'd got out and checked the underside and declared an ARB strike, it is a low point after all. Well you've all joined the dots by now.
I called Classicline with my phone battery dwindling, told the friendly chap the problem and location, which he confirmed back to me. It seems he then proceeded to inform the recovery firm that I was somewhere other than I'd described and that I have a fuelling issue. In spite this chap's help, the excellent and very efficient recovery man did manage to find me (after some effort) and deliver me and my very oily car back home. And of course, my neighbours, even at gone 11PM, were outside to witness the rare sight of my TVR gracing the back of low loader. Great.
In due course, I'd like to find a socket sump plug with magnet attatched, but for now I'm making do with a brass plumbing fitting (pt no. 98635) from screwfix for the princely sum of £1.15. Keep a close eye on your plugs people.
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