Your Most.Embarassing Moment?
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I did a good one on Friday, luckily in our yard. Been lumbered with a Scania on shunting duties and had just brought a trailer back from the docks and had to pick up another one, pissing it down so just jumped out and slammed the door behind me. Hearing that whirring sound that central locking motors make when you are standing outside with the lorry running is a real heart sinking moment 
Common problem on Scanias, the Bowden cables and the door handle attachment becomes worn and moved too freely. Good slam of the door and boom your locked out
The mechanic where I worked last was bemused when I asked for the above items to be replaced on my 54 plate R series when I got it in 2011, once I explained why he ordered the bits, and I fitted them when I was deep cleaning the door cards
The mechanic where I worked last was bemused when I asked for the above items to be replaced on my 54 plate R series when I got it in 2011, once I explained why he ordered the bits, and I fitted them when I was deep cleaning the door cards
The thing was that our workshop were used to the old 04 plate ones that we had, they're a piece of piss to break into. Took us almost an hour to get into the 10 plate one I was using 
Imagine if you did it out on the road somewhere and your phone was in the cab, what you going to do? Paranoia
Imagine if you did it out on the road somewhere and your phone was in the cab, what you going to do? Paranoia
s p a c e m a n said:
I did a good one on Friday, luckily in our yard. Been lumbered with a Scania on shunting duties and had just brought a trailer back from the docks and had to pick up another one, pissing it down so just jumped out and slammed the door behind me. Hearing that whirring sound that central locking motors make when you are standing outside with the lorry running is a real heart sinking moment
My old firm's Renault Premiums and Midlums had this same quirk 
s p a c e m a n said:
The thing was that our workshop were used to the old 04 plate ones that we had, they're a piece of piss to break into. Took us almost an hour to get into the 10 plate one I was using
Imagine if you did it out on the road somewhere and your phone was in the cab, what you going to do? Paranoia
Where i worked before i had a 57 plate one from 2 months old until 2 years old, a few months after the other driver got it it did exactly the same on a fuel satation forecourt with a queue of trucks behind him on a single lane HGV pump with no option to reverse out. Scania came out with the spare keys, but as the truck had remote central locking the door locks were seized through lack of use, they broke in by destroying the colour coded door handle and replacing it with a black one. Imagine if you did it out on the road somewhere and your phone was in the cab, what you going to do? Paranoia
If it were me that was still on it, id have insisted on the window being panned in instead
Scanias, great trucks but by christ they have their quirks
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