Morris Minor Owners Club

I've had Albert on the road about a year now and to be honest after yesterdays trip it seems like something untoward happens to him each time I take him out.
I had a loverly 50 mile drive with the roof down yesterday but got back to find the hood, which had only been replaced last year had caught in the frame in two places and had two slits in it.
I've had the hood up and down about 20 times now and that's the first damage it's received.
Somebody tell me a worse tale to cheer me up.

Could have been 3 slits










I'll try again shall I.

Thats a sod. Sorry to hear that.

At least its not as bad as a wheel falling off in the middle of the forest, or blowing up on the M3

The hood must be very fragile - and the frame very sharp! Perhaps the frame needs some localised padding to prevent this happening ?

Ermmm my new battery stopped working today, last week it was a spark plug, the week before it was a bad connecting fuse, the month before it was the points. Each time the darn thing ran lumpy or wouldn't start at all and it felt each time I'd sussed out what it was, something else would go wrong!!! When I get it on the road I'm going to be as nervous as hell, because I feel my car will let me down when miles from home over something stupid.

Well - RH provide Roadside Assist - and Recovery as part of their Classic Insurance - so at least they will fix it or get you home. Just do the regular maintenance - and carry some sensible spares and tools with you!
Very very unusual for a new battery to fail - sure it's not something else - ie bad connection/poor earth ? Is the battery being charged by the dynamo/alternator ??

i haven't driven the car since about the 4th of January when i killed the gearbox. you all remember that time of year? when you are still adhering to resolutions...yeah...a LONG time ago! how's that Pete? all this sun and me in a crappy Daewoo(borrowed from my mum!!)

bmcecosse wrote:Well - RH provide Roadside Assist - and Recovery as part of their Classic Insurance - so at least they will fix it or get you home. Just do the regular maintenance - and carry some sensible spares and tools with you!
Very very unusual for a new battery to fail - sure it's not something else - ie bad connection/poor earth ? Is the battery being charged by the dynamo/alternator ??

Thanks Bmc, it's dynamo charged. I took the battery back to the shop today for a health check. If it's dodgy he will exchange it... but I have a funny feeling I left the interior light on when I last worked on it Wednesday night. Unfortunately when I went to charge it back up today the charger just kept tripping out as if it was shorting. Hopefully everything will be ok tomorrow morning.

What type of hood is it? if everflex you can get it welded up.

James

At least its not as bad as a wheel falling off in the middle of the forest

too true. That's how my Monday night journey from woek ended. It took me 4 1/2 Hrs to get home.

tuesday night it was a hit and run with an 11 yr old boy. Not pleasant. At least he'll be OK though.

Wednesday night I took a different routre home

Doesn't help you though. I feel for you. I fixed some tears in my midget roof with some of that sealer stuff. It worked really well, but the roof was black, so hid it well.

Andrew

Saw about the bearing on t'other site (shameless plug for mog.myfreeforum.org)

Hope the kids alright!

What type of hood is it? if everflex you can get it welded up

Yes it is. Who could provide that service?

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My scimitar sabre (like the one above) had been off the road for two years whilst i lived in paris; I went to get an MOT on returing to the UK. The fan fuse failed and they cooked the engine.. being a K serise they warped the head..I got it back on the road only to find the rad was damaged..

I got a new rad fitted only to go for a drive down a road I had never driven down before.. it was dark and it had the sleeping policemen which are just big lumps in the road as opposed to going all the way across. I hit it square on and pushed the chassis through my new radiator!

I got another new radiator and my chassis straightened.

A few weeks later my daughter was born (14 week premature) in cardiff. By the time we got back to aldershot the battery was dead and I had to buy a new one. At the time both my wife and I had 2 seater so one had to go and putting both on the market at the same time (thinking mine would not sell quickly) I was happy that the first one to sell would go and we would keep the other... mine prompty sold in 2 days.

so in the last two years of owning the car it cost me a shed load of money and i drove it only a few hundred miles to and from work.

would i buy another one.. yes without a second thought it was a great car to drive.

positive side i have a lovely healthy daughter who supports Wales when we play rugby!

charlie_morris_minor wrote:
A few weeks later my daughter was born (14 week premature) in cardiff.

positive side i have a lovely healthy daughter who supports Wales when we play rugby!

What a great ending... 14 weeks prem is very young, glad she pulled through and is now happy and healthy.

Dean wrote: I have a funny feeling I left the interior light on when I last worked on it Wednesday night.

All positions are 'on' on my car's interior light… which means I have to work fast when doing jobs with the door open.

Peetee wrote:

What type of hood is it? if everflex you can get it welded up

Yes it is. Who could provide that service?

http://www.polyfacto.co.uk/

James

If it makes you feel any better, my Moggie needs a recon engine after me only having it for a little over a month or so, and the price I paid for the car plus the cost of the recon enigne, labour etc plus some of the other work I've had done will now wildly exceed the market value of the car .

This is in stark contrast to the man-maths which I convinced myself would apply (cheap insurance plus no road tax plus no depreciation = virtually free car! ).

I am trying to be philosophical, I could not have done anything differently in the buying process that would have made any difference, just one of those things.

It could be worse - we could own supercars that have shed tens of thousands in value thanks to the credit crunch...stay positive

look on the bright side once you have the recon engine you will have years of reliability,as long as you maintain it.for bad stuff on monday the police shut a lane very close to where i live[drovers lane] this was were the arm was found this week,and a leg in buntingford both in herts.i had to go a long way into work.this is not nice when its less than a mile away from were i live .

the arm was found this week,and a leg

It might fit this thread, but I'm going to resist this one!

Apparently the matching head was found in a field in Leicester....