Remind me again why I should keep the car???
 

Having a nitemare 24 hours!

00.00 - Got home last night to find some Honda 4x4 thing on my drive, guessing it beloned to one of the doctors that stay in the house at the end of my street when they work late I proceeded to block the cheeky fucker in cos I like to be able to see the car from the house.

8.30 - Said cheeky fucker knocks the door asking me to move my car, I begin to give him a gob full about parking on my drive then realise he's a foreign twat who can only understand half of what im saying (really reassuring being a doctor and all that) so in trainers and dressing gown I stomp over to my car, see it covered in frost and go to start it. Engine turned over once very slowly and then dead so had to push it back. :wall: :mad:

11.30 - By now im awake, dressed and about to go out. Car has been in sun for last 2 hours so figure the cold has shaken off it. Go to start car and it turns over really slowly again.

12.00 - Luckily mate that lives with me comes home for 30 mins so I borrow her car, shoot over to TMC and get a new battery.

12.30 - Got new battery, dig out 10ml spanner, go out to car and realise that the braket bolt is bigger than 10ml, I only have a 14 and 17ml spanner. I do have a mini socket set but ive lost the extension bar so even thats useless. Meanwhile my mate has to go out so im effectively house bound.

1.00 - After texting mates to see if they got a 13ml spanner I end up phoning my Dad who says he's got one and he'll bring it over when he can be arsed.

1.30 - Realise mate has used up last of bog roll and I need to go!!!!

14.30 - Dad just turned up with spanner, so battery all changed and car running.

14.50 - Im now going over to mums for sunday dinner and sympathy :top:

So I figure ive got another 9 hours of bad luck then all should be ok again, think i'll go back to bed after dinner lol

Don't worry about it mine done that last friday went to run it up and make every thing was ok for sat and the battery was flat :wall: Went to fords and bought a new one onway to work, mate that works there done me a good deal :D Got home and fitted new battery car nows starts fine as i was putting tool box back in boot i noticed the light in the boot now working it never did before so as i was closeing the tail gate i made sure it went out when it was shut and it stayed on :wall: need a new switch.So had wasted journey to fords wasted money on new battery cos of a stupid boot light so your not the only one that gets shit off there car :top:

we just gotta laff at one quickie :blabla:

Red 1600is.........the most reliable cars on the planet :cool:

Go back to bed everthing will be alright in the morning.

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Tony you would say that now you own one :wall:

And i second that :top: any advance :DD:

Claire wrote:
Edit- 14.50 - Im now going over to mums for sunday dinner and sympathy and a shit.............PMSL :DD: :DD:

And yours has been bullet proof has then Pete i think not :blabla:

Dont know, havent shot it yet mate :007: :p

Wanked out alternator and AA van spring to mind :blabla:

boring and that's common knowledge :wall: :wall:

Only for people that were their :DD: :blabla:

and everybody that uses this board














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Hope so LMAO!!!! :blabla:

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Martin, mine had the boot switch fault when I first got it but my local auto elecy bloke picked up on it straight away.


Oh, and now my stereo has died :wall: :wall: :wall: :wall: :wall: :wall:

petrol and matches are a quick fix LOL :eek:

:wall: :wall: sounds like a right nightmare, least you got it sorted in the end though! :clap: I would keep the reciept as my TMC battery packed up after only 9 months :mad: :mad:

The worst thing I have had recently is the starter motor on mine doesn't work once the car gets hot, and there was a big cue on the way to work as there had been a serious car crash. The police turned up and was diverting us off the dual carridge way, I let my foot slip off the clutch stalling it :wall: , tried to start it up again but it was doing nothing :wall: . So in the middle of all this traffic and stuff I have to pop the bonnet and tap the starter motor to get it going. The first try didn't work :cry: , at this point I was begining to sweat a bit as I was getting some proper agro and blocking of one lane of the dual carridge way just before a bridge with no hard shoulder or pull off area :wall: :wall: So I thought I would give it one more go before calling the RAC before I got linched! So I Pop'ed the bonnet again, tapped it with some proper force this time and thank God it worked :top: nightmare

Funnest thing recently was, while having a play on the way back home with my mate TD Audi Quattro. I got to this bit of dual carridge way before my home kinda squaring up to have a thrash with him down the dual carridge way. I put my foot down, then all of a sudden, it grinds to a halt stinking of petrol. The petrol pipe had poped off! Proper scary putting it back on though, on the side of a dual carridge way (no hard sholder again :wall: ) on a blind bend with the bonnet up so I couldn't even see if anything was coming towards me :eek: Bodged it on though and limpted home :DD:

RSi's, who would have em! :DD:

Ad - I didnt get it sorted in the end, my stereo still dont work and thats worse than the battery dying! lol

Sounds like you've had some right marish moments in your RSi recently tho!!!

See Clare you not the onlyone that gets grief off there car :top:

Stereos in Escorts are a nightmare!! In my RSi I cant get a radio signal at all and in the S2 it has a pretty aweful radio signal most of the time! :wall: I'm tempted to give up with it all and buy a push bike :cry: :DD:

Dont forget your cycle clips - not because of the chain but you have to be brave to ride on the streets today - and they'll keep the shit of your boots :top:

Keep it cos it is an rsi
and there aint nuffin like it :banana: :banana:

Ad - isnt the poor radio signal cos you live in the sticks?? lol

I was bad enough getting a radio station in cornwall last week :wall:

Get out of the sticks then bumpkin :blabla:

MKTart - Yeah i think that has a lot to do with it!! :cry: it's funny, a few years ago I drove to Iffracoombe and the signal in cornwall was crystal!! And as soon as I was back home I got back to like crackling noise or Classic FM for some reason? :? :cry: you can't talk anyway as your barely out of the sticks!! :blabla: :DD:

push bike - cant beat it,use mine every day for work !!!!

radio - in 16i,never use it !!!! - put the cd's on

radio - in rst,is pretty good signal - but have cd's on in that

I'd rather play CDs than listen to radio :top:

me to matey

got a 12 disc player in the S2

only single disc in the rsi

MY CD PLAYER DOESNT WORK ANYMORE :wall: :wall: :wall: :wall: :wall: :wall:

Mine just jumps like a pig whenever i drive but works good a traffic lights or in stationary traffic :top:

Mine plays pukka :top: :top: :top:

in the rst - works a treat :DD:

in the rsi - jumps a few times,the dash is a bit lose me thinks :cry: - but sounds nice with me new speakers in it now :DD:

I think I may be alone here but I use my car every day and have had no real problems yet. :top:

Touch wood

Fingers Crossed

Throw salt over my left shoulder

Avoid all black cats

etc etc :cry:

perhaps your roads are better then !!!!!

mines a single disc unit - it jumps a few time,but not many

I mean with the car as a whole, not me cd player! Although that has been trouble free too.

Dont talk to me about the roads by us. I have driven round most of our fair land and reckon the roads in Dudley Borough to be the worst by far :bat: :bat:

thats good news then - just what you want with the winter coming up,everything all okay.

roads ............ - na,gotta be round here,are the worse >>>> - about 50 bus's an hour + loads off cars + roadworks all the time !!! = fugging big post holes :cry: