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That old chestnut
Posted: Thu Dec 24, 2009 6:28 pm
by Cam
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!
Posted: Thu Dec 24, 2009 6:55 pm
by Blaketon
I have just bought two new uprights for mine (A stitch in time!!).
Posted: Thu Dec 24, 2009 9:13 pm
by bmcecosse
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.
Posted: Thu Dec 24, 2009 9:31 pm
by PSL184
I see the train is back
Posted: Thu Dec 24, 2009 9:33 pm
by DAVIDMCCULLOUGH
OOPS!! Ive seen this happen once before, thankfully not on one of my cars
Posted: Thu Dec 24, 2009 10:28 pm
by Cam
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!
Posted: Fri Dec 25, 2009 10:00 am
by kennatt
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.
Posted: Fri Dec 25, 2009 2:45 pm
by ssnjimb
Hi
That looks so dangerous. Why didnt Morris/Austin Rover/BLMC/British leyland. not sort this problem out.
Jamie
Posted: Fri Dec 25, 2009 2:48 pm
by aupickup
its called lack of maintenance normally
it is not that common
Posted: Fri Dec 25, 2009 5:55 pm
by autolycus
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
Posted: Fri Dec 25, 2009 6:29 pm
by ssnjimb
Dont you start roy off on christmas day
Posted: Fri Dec 25, 2009 7:42 pm
by alzax3
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!
Posted: Fri Dec 25, 2009 10:55 pm
by autolycus
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