Last run of the year, and what a day!

[kamilb1998]

Should have posted this yesterday, but didn't get round to it.

The way TO Plymouth was fine, didn't miss a beat, no warning lights everything working as it should.

The way back however was slightly different.

Started off with trouble to start then Fuel Fail followed by Circuit 1 Failure causing the antenna for the radio not to work. With the Fuel Fail showing we didn't move from the campsite until I knew what the fault was, so a quick text to Rob Jenner and he told me it was the resistor for the hot start sensor, so we set off and that may have been why it had trouble starting in the morning. Fault cleared after re-starting the engine and didn't reappear.

About 100 or so miles into our journey a rather large rock hit the bonnet taking some paint with it before hitting the windscreen and causing an annoying 5mm scuff on the bonnet and a little chip in the windscreen.

That was only the beginning though, after a visit to Browns Ln, we pulled over at McDonalds and mum went with my little brother to get the food, not telling me she locked the car and then put the keys on the rear right hand side carpet where I was getting my stuff ready to give it a quick go over with Meguiars Speed Detailer, while they got the food and then I shut the right hand side rear door ops: Yeah. Big problem there we were about 100 miles away from home and locked out of the car, fortunately though she found a guy in a van on the same McDonalds car park and asked him whether he knew what to do. And guess what...HE DID! He went to his van stayed in there for a bit and came out with a wire and a load of long flat-bladed screwdrivers. He then very carefully prised away the chrome and slid in a bar to hold the chrome in place while he lifted the locking knob thing on the drivers door with the wire And thanks to him Oliver still has all his windows (mums plan was to break one of them to get in...NEVER :lol: )

But after a long and eventful drive we got home, Oliver got a wash and is now sitting on blocks tucked away under his cover.

Pictures from camping below, JDHT visit in another thread


And some pics :-


On the campsite




Queuing for the Torpoint Ferry



On the Torpoint Ferry



A Rover P4 that was on the campsite

[Monkeylegend]

Reading that I thought you had a little brother called Oliver, then I got to the bit where you talked about Mum wanting to smash his back windows in


Why Oliver? And what happens to him for the rest of the year?

Edited by Monkeylegend on Friday 13th August 13:44

[RobCrezz]

Nice Jaaaaaaaaaag!

[RichB]

kamilb1998 said:

But after a long and eventful drive we got home, Oliver got a wash and is now sitting on blocks tucked away under his cover.

Put away on blocks and it's only August? What's wrong with it?

[Jonny_693]

Nice write up. Needs more mum pics though.

[kamilb1998]

RichB said:

kamilb1998 said:

But after a long and eventful drive we got home, Oliver got a wash and is now sitting on blocks tucked away under his cover.

Put away on blocks and it's only August? What's wrong with it?

End of MOT, insurance and TAX.

[kamilb1998]

Monkeylegend said:

Reading that I thought you had a little brother called Oliver, then I got to the bit where you talked about Mum wanting to smash his back windows in


And what happens to him for the rest of the year?

Tucked away under its cover.

[RichB]

kamilb1998 said:

RichB said:

kamilb1998 said:

But after a long and eventful drive we got home, Oliver got a wash and is now sitting on blocks tucked away under his cover.

Put away on blocks and it's only August? What's wrong with it?

End of MOT, insurance and TAX.

MOT runs for year whatever/whenever so that's no excuse, insurance must be cheap so that's just tax and you can always SORN it in October/November... just seems a pity to put it away so soon.