That old chestnut

Post by **Cam** » Thu Dec 24, 2009 6:28 pm

Found this a few streets away from me!

The owner was delighted I stopped and offered help, but a tow truck was on it's way already.

Plenty of grease but very little in the way of threads left!

Post by **Blaketon** » Thu Dec 24, 2009 6:55 pm

I have just bought two new uprights for mine (A stitch in time!!).

Post by **bmcecosse** » Thu Dec 24, 2009 9:13 pm

Amazing - no snow ?

Strange it would happen on a dead straight/flat piece of road! usually happens when the wheel bcomes unloaded - ie it's the inside wheel on a corner.

Post by **PSL184** » Thu Dec 24, 2009 9:31 pm

I see the train is back

Post by **DAVIDMCCULLOUGH** » Thu Dec 24, 2009 9:33 pm

OOPS!! Ive seen this happen once before, thankfully not on one of my cars

Post by **Cam** » Thu Dec 24, 2009 10:28 pm

BMC,

It happened on 13th December (before the snow). I had lost the lead that connects my phone to my PC so I could transfer the picture(s) but I found it today!

Actually, it DID happen when turning. You will notice that the car is pointing inwards towards the kerb. He was pulling into a gap to let another car past when it happened.

It was apparently MoT'd only a few weeks before!

Post by **kennatt** » Fri Dec 25, 2009 10:00 am

brings back memories when it happened to me forty odd years ago,scavenged a length of wire from a fence and strapped it back together and drove it 15 miles back home

would't dare do it these days.

Post by **ssnjimb** » Fri Dec 25, 2009 2:45 pm

Hi

That looks so dangerous. Why didnt Morris/Austin Rover/BLMC/British leyland. not sort this problem out.

Jamie

Post by **aupickup** » Fri Dec 25, 2009 2:48 pm

its called lack of maintenance normally

it is not that common

Post by **autolycus** » Fri Dec 25, 2009 5:55 pm

PSL184 wrote:I see the train is back

And very troubling it is, too. Why isn't the signal post on the cess side, and why does it display a yellow spectacle regardless of whether it's on or off?

And what's the easiest way of blocking all animated gifs?

Kevin

Post by **ssnjimb** » Fri Dec 25, 2009 6:29 pm

Dont you start roy off on christmas day

Post by **alzax3** » Fri Dec 25, 2009 7:42 pm

If you're running Firefox and 'adblock plus' you just right click on any offending image, add it to the 'filtered items' and it's gone in a puff of logic!

Post by **autolycus** » Fri Dec 25, 2009 10:55 pm

Ah, yes - adblock - one of the finest Firefox add-ons, and my addled brain had forgotten about it. And wouldn't it disappear in a puff of steam? (And smoke, thanks to M Chapelon).

I didn't think they bothered much about Christmas up in Roy's neck of the woods - I wouldn't have dared to wind him up on New Year's day.

Kevin