Most embarrassing moment so far!!!?
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Picked up my new (to me) Chim in Cheshire driving it down south stopped on the M25 services for petrol. Standing there refuelling with a grin on my face watching everone looking at my new car and realised that petrol was pissing over my feet much to the amusement of all those looking on. I had'nt quite got the hang of filling the beast up. Have now though!
Hi all..been a keen reader of this site for some time, hope to be a Griffith owner in near future.
Had a great moment at the last motor show in Birmingham, guest of TVR dealer doing his all to sell me a car.
Not having much experience of the door mechanism on a Griff I pulled it instead of pushing and it promptly came off in my hand!!
Walked over to the salesman and said 'I think this is yours' - unphased, he asked if anyone saw me do it, I said 'no' so we pushed it back while no one was looking & went for a drink.
So if you couldnt get into the Griff on the TVR stand I apologise.
Nick
Had a great moment at the last motor show in Birmingham, guest of TVR dealer doing his all to sell me a car.
Not having much experience of the door mechanism on a Griff I pulled it instead of pushing and it promptly came off in my hand!!
Walked over to the salesman and said 'I think this is yours' - unphased, he asked if anyone saw me do it, I said 'no' so we pushed it back while no one was looking & went for a drink.
So if you couldnt get into the Griff on the TVR stand I apologise.
Nick
I don't feel as though I'm alone now! Have had my Griff for a week (first TVR) and can now safely say that I now know what all the unlabelled buttons on the dash are for....although I learned the hard way! While driving back from Wales to London at night I was wondering where the fog light switch was and promptly opened the boot while doing 90mph! And then last night, I was driving back on the A3 and my bonnet started to rise up my windscreen (dodgy bonnet catch!)...so I pulled over on the hard shoulder and fumbled around for the hazard lights (you know whats coming don't you!)....got out the car, pushed the bonnet down, went back to the drivers door and couldn't get in! Passenger side was locked too...engine was running, coat and mobile was in the car! In all the excitement I'd selected the 'lock all occupants in car' button! Arrgghhh!!! Considered smashing the passenger window when I remembered reading the thread on 'how to break into your car'! Phew! Thank God for PH's I though!!
>> Edited by AndyX on Friday 1st February 21:51
>> Edited by AndyX on Friday 1st February 21:51
Last year I had a bit of a problem with my Chimaera – it needed a new radiator and starter motor and was booked in for the work one Saturday morning
Knowing that the car had been loosing water I got up that morning at 6am (yes, my girlfriend thinks I’m mad too) with the intention of topping it up and making sure that it was ok for the trip down to the garage. And guess what, press the button on the remote and nothing happens. No clunk as the door lock releases. No flash of the indicators as the alarm deactivates… I pressed it again, ziltch…again…bu@@er all!
I couldn’t get into the car!
Now being fairly new to TVR ownership the lack of response from the car seemed to provoke an equal and opposite reaction in me. The air in the garage was positively BLUE!
Calm down…cup of coffee…think through the problem…flat battery – I know, I’ll break in, push the car out onto the drive and jump start it from my other car. The trouble was my drive is not that big, and trying to position both cars so that the jump leads would reach from one car to the other was not easy...and opps, the TVR rolls down the curb and ends up half way across the road! Now I know TVRs are relatively light, but they are not THAT light! Could I push it back up onto the drive? NO!
OK, stay calm…move the other car around so that the leads will reach again [and block the entire road in the process] 'Just as well it's early,' me thinks, 'and it's quiet.'
Anyway, I get the jump leads all set up and start the Chimaera, disconnect the jump leads....
Wooo ooooo, Wooo ooooo, Woooo ooooo ....the alarm goes off and no matter what I do, no matter how many times I stab the little black buttons on the remote, I cannot shut it off.
Curtains twitch up and down the streat…turn off the engine, the alarm dies as the battery fades.
The milkman’s float round the corner, ‘You ok mate?’
‘Yes,’ I reply, ‘no problem…’
‘Can I get by?’
‘Errr…no.’
I connect the jump leads again, start car...
Wooo ooooo, Wooo ooooo, Woooo ooooo...'FCUK!' I think, 'What do I do? The neighbours are going to kill me!' Disconnecting the jump leads from my other car, I pull it onto the drive and then leap in to the TVR ...Wooo ooooo, Wooo ooooo, Woooo ooooo...and drive off...Wooo ooooo, Wooo ooooo, Woooo ooooo...and drive round for what seemed like half an hour until the alarm stops!
WHAT A LAUGH! And no, my girl friend was not impressed when I arrived back at the house at 07:15, and leaving the car running on the drive, demand that she get up there and then [no you haven’t got time for a coffee] and follow me down to the TVR hospital…
Knowing that the car had been loosing water I got up that morning at 6am (yes, my girlfriend thinks I’m mad too) with the intention of topping it up and making sure that it was ok for the trip down to the garage. And guess what, press the button on the remote and nothing happens. No clunk as the door lock releases. No flash of the indicators as the alarm deactivates… I pressed it again, ziltch…again…bu@@er all!
I couldn’t get into the car!
Now being fairly new to TVR ownership the lack of response from the car seemed to provoke an equal and opposite reaction in me. The air in the garage was positively BLUE!
Calm down…cup of coffee…think through the problem…flat battery – I know, I’ll break in, push the car out onto the drive and jump start it from my other car. The trouble was my drive is not that big, and trying to position both cars so that the jump leads would reach from one car to the other was not easy...and opps, the TVR rolls down the curb and ends up half way across the road! Now I know TVRs are relatively light, but they are not THAT light! Could I push it back up onto the drive? NO!
OK, stay calm…move the other car around so that the leads will reach again [and block the entire road in the process] 'Just as well it's early,' me thinks, 'and it's quiet.'
Anyway, I get the jump leads all set up and start the Chimaera, disconnect the jump leads....
Wooo ooooo, Wooo ooooo, Woooo ooooo ....the alarm goes off and no matter what I do, no matter how many times I stab the little black buttons on the remote, I cannot shut it off.
Curtains twitch up and down the streat…turn off the engine, the alarm dies as the battery fades.
The milkman’s float round the corner, ‘You ok mate?’
‘Yes,’ I reply, ‘no problem…’
‘Can I get by?’
‘Errr…no.’
I connect the jump leads again, start car...
Wooo ooooo, Wooo ooooo, Woooo ooooo...'FCUK!' I think, 'What do I do? The neighbours are going to kill me!' Disconnecting the jump leads from my other car, I pull it onto the drive and then leap in to the TVR ...Wooo ooooo, Wooo ooooo, Woooo ooooo...and drive off...Wooo ooooo, Wooo ooooo, Woooo ooooo...and drive round for what seemed like half an hour until the alarm stops!
WHAT A LAUGH! And no, my girl friend was not impressed when I arrived back at the house at 07:15, and leaving the car running on the drive, demand that she get up there and then [no you haven’t got time for a coffee] and follow me down to the TVR hospital…
Picked up my Chimaera from High Wycombe , drove it down to Devon with an insane grin , chuffed to nuts ...lovely. Got it into my work in the evening , gave the car a proper clean so not to miss daylight hours , checked all the vital signs etc ...bang on. Following day woke at five in the morning just itching to go and pick the lad up. Work at nine all fired up , low and behold ...sun!!! Roof out , off we go!!! Got to show my baby off so went over to mates house , lovely house , parked on his drive....Ta Daa !!! then the power steering rack decided to dump it's guts all over his drive only compounded by some tossbag with a 911 who lived next door coming out and saying "that's TVRs for you" As a fellow TVR owner said make sure you get AA cover and funnily enough I had my first encounter within 24hrs!!!
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