Have all you Berkshire bods survived the floods?
Discussion
jazzybee said:
I had a terrible trip from London to Bristol this morning on the M4. My colleage's wife dropped him in Bristol, and went back to London. She started at 11:20am, and got home at 4:30pm. We had another meeting in Somerset - and after this morning and hearing about the nightmare Journey, we decided to stay here the night and work our way back in the morning.
Careful, M4 14-13 quite a bit of the carriageway has come up and emergency repairs most likely will be done overnight/into tomorrow. Newbury is still here and I must admit seeing the railway station under water is a sight! Water up to the platform, the rest of the roads seem to be back to normal with all signs of flooding gone.
Trip from Bracknell to Binfield - all of 2 1/2 miles took just under an hour and included a little wading - fingers crossed the electric's on my Barchetta will not have disintegrated by the morning......... 
Oh, a word of thanks to the c
in Shogun who decided to hit the flood that I was wading through at speed - very clever 
- shame your IQ does not match your CC 
Oh, a word of thanks to the c
in Shogun who decided to hit the flood that I was wading through at speed - very clever - shame your IQ does not match your CC 
I really can sympathise, as I've only just got home myself, having left the office in Waterloo over 5 hours ago...
OK, so that had a lot to do with More Beanz, Turbofun, Tonker, ProPlus, 8 pints of bitter, 3 slices of pizza and the only 2 French girls still employed amongst the the sea of Poles in Waterloo station, and absolutely nothing to do with floodwater, but nevertheless... , I can sympathise
I'm glad nobody ended up with a house under water anyway!
OK, so that had a lot to do with More Beanz, Turbofun, Tonker, ProPlus, 8 pints of bitter, 3 slices of pizza and the only 2 French girls still employed amongst the the sea of Poles in Waterloo station, and absolutely nothing to do with floodwater, but nevertheless... , I can sympathise
I'm glad nobody ended up with a house under water anyway!
AngryS3Owner said:
took me two hours to get back from maidenhead to crowthorne (14 miles for anyone that doesn't know) last night, was not amused, some very serious flooding and some ing stupid people on the roads and I think probably more than 10 broken or crashed cars along the way.Seriously though - have you managed to get the car back up and running?
john_r said:
Ben - were you pushing or driving your car?
Seriously though - have you managed to get the car back up and running?
Thought I was going to have to push at one point when some total numpties going the other way through what seemed like a river managed to make some waves that were coming up bloody high and nearly made the car cut out. Seriously though - have you managed to get the car back up and running?
Yeah, got the clutch pedal sorted out at work last monday and Pete changed the ball joints last night so just need to get some new tyres and the geometry sorted out now and then I'll be looking to sell it all being well.
2.5 hours from Calcot to Finchampstead last night, although this did include sitting in a flood for about 15 minutes.... was making steady careful progress through a flood, turned a corner under the railway bridge at Grazely to find a car stopped on my side of road and 3 or 4 coming the other direction; didn't keep the revs up quite enough and the engine died! 
Luckily a good samaritan in an old Range Rover came to my rescue, but not before various larger vehicles had come past at speed within the confines of the bridge helping to clear some of the flood water by washing it into my car!
I was convinced that I'll killed the engine as it wouldn't even turn over, although the starter was still trying - I had visions of cylinders like Evian bottles and bent con rods - but a bump in 4th gear behind the Rangie got it going again and I then limped home with lots of steam coming out of the exhaust (luckily not due to a blown head gasket!). I've had to bale boats out before, but it was very strange baling 2 inches of water out of my footwells.
The car started fine this morning and a trip to the hand car wash place in Arborfield saw the remnants of the water hoovered out - all's back to normality now (apart from the misty foglamps!). It certainly could've turned out a lot worse!
A short trip in New York!
Luckily a good samaritan in an old Range Rover came to my rescue, but not before various larger vehicles had come past at speed within the confines of the bridge helping to clear some of the flood water by washing it into my car!
I was convinced that I'll killed the engine as it wouldn't even turn over, although the starter was still trying - I had visions of cylinders like Evian bottles and bent con rods - but a bump in 4th gear behind the Rangie got it going again and I then limped home with lots of steam coming out of the exhaust (luckily not due to a blown head gasket!). I've had to bale boats out before, but it was very strange baling 2 inches of water out of my footwells.
The car started fine this morning and a trip to the hand car wash place in Arborfield saw the remnants of the water hoovered out - all's back to normality now (apart from the misty foglamps!). It certainly could've turned out a lot worse!
G T 3 said:
Whats a joiney?
A short trip in New York!
Not sure on M5 types but my bro in law recently bought last shape M5 met blu 2000 or 2001 car mint all the goodies cost 18.5k 50 odd k miles.Excellent car keep it in 5th and the limiter doesnt work he had 165 going to Lemans....get one!!!!
Wots the missing car......Cerbera?????????
Wots the missing car......Cerbera?????????
Edited by G T 3 on Sunday 22 July 08:32
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