Clare

And what started off such a good day out, soon turned into the day from hell for me when I decided to leave.






Queing up to leave Donny, following Spiky & Nuts RS to drop off Spikys car so the AA could come pick it up................ and my bloody clutch goes!

Managed to get 3rd gear and limped it to the BP at East Mids airport, which is where I then sat for 3 and a half hours for a Recovery Truck. I've just walked thru the door, im tired, hungry, and my face is red from wind burn................ top day out by all accounts

May I say thank you to the AA who have somewhat gone down in my estimation, your call centre staff are thick as sh1t and dont know what they are talking about.

A big fcuk you to Arther Jones Recovery in Donnington who tried to take advantage of my situation and tried to rob me blind by wanting £311 to take me home.

And a big to Keith at Trade Recovery based in MK/Beds, who came and got me, took very good care of the cossie putting her on the flat bed and turned out to be a huge Ford fan and only charged £140 to do the same round trip that the other Company would have had to do - highly recommended 07816 242798.

Lee Reynolds

fooking some recovery places are complete bastards

Physio

Sorry to hear about your car but on a positive note, it was really nice to meet you today

Spiky

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140 is that all????


mine costg mne over £450+ to get home


glad your home safe babe

Physio

Oh it was nice meeting you too Spiky

Spax

Doh seems a few cars got smashed/broke down this weekend

Does seem a little expensive tho!

Spiky

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wish i could say the same about you




nah seriously

you really ARE short

and ncie to meet you dude


see ya saturday

Clare

Nice to meet you too AJ, and thank you again for the doughnut(s) lol

Met so many people from PF today, apologies if you saw me tagging along behind Spiky, and every so often you heard me say "Who are these people" "Who's he" "What are your names then?" lol

Oh and apologies for getting Steve Scott to run around trying to find a trailer for me at 6pm, I bet when he heard my voice on the other end of the phone saying "Steeeeeeeeeeeeve, you know I asked you how much you want for a clutch earlier cos I think mine is on its way out........... well it's gone, can you help me get the fooker home?!" I bet he thought Great, just what I need at this time of night lol Nah seriously tho, I rang a fair few people from here to try and get a trailer and a big 'mwah' to all of you for trying to help in finding me one

Physio

Pmsl you cooont

Physio

[quote="Clare"]Nice to meet you too AJ, and thank you again for the doughnut(s) lolquote]
No probs mate

vroooom ptssssh

doh, bad news clare, BUT why the hell didnt u jus drive it home cos u dont really need a clutch once ure on the motorway..... and u can change gear without one

Physio

I've had to do that before

Clare

You serious??? Have you ever seen the traffic on the M1 on a Sunday evening? And unlike some, I have a little respect for my gearbox and didnt feel like having to shell out for one of them as well!

Plus........ I tried that, by which time I couldn't get any gears so had no choice in the end.

RichardPON

I was just about to say, why didn't you just drive home, but then I remembered about the M1.

You're not wrong - it's like the whole country decides to go home to Luton on Sunday nights

xr-stu

unlucky, been there done that! was with digitaldragon in essex (we both live in/near bristol...) and the diff went in his xrt, had to wait over three hours for a truck, didnt get home till 7 the following morning!

vroooom ptssssh

M1, ....no dont thinkso, although i do remember a busy road en route bk from nottingham once, may of been it

it dont crung if u change i think its between 2.5 n 3.5K revs, cant remember, but it can be done, jus knock it out of gear, turn it off, put in first, fire it up.......or use the hard shoulder i dont condone that tho honestly :P

dave green

Had a problem like yours at ford fair four years ago. A fter a good day the car decided not to start which puts a downer on a good day, glad you and the cossie got home in good shape.


Dave

NUTS RuS

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Glad you both got home safely in the end.

I would have really liked to help even more spiky had I had the time £450 how come ?????? I thought if you were in the AA then recovery was included

Kev.H

Nath

Sounded like an expensive weekend out for some people

nikki304r

hey to everyone that went to nat day, shocked to hear about the security probs, I myself had no probs either getting in, or out.
Was pleased to note at least 3 other rouse sports, one of which was in concours. Mine was the only Ebony one there that I noted - dint look round the car park tho. - Mine was parked on our club stand, but someone forgot to bring the club stand sign. Thanks to everyone who showed their interest, and thanks to everyone who made a comment about my furry yeti boots.. and no they dont need to be fed..
I had a really good day, and well done to everyone who did the track, they all looked like they were really enjoying giving it some welly. made me a bit jealous cus i really wanted to do it.
was a bit miffed that PJ motorsports werent there tho. I wanted some 4x4 badges

Spiky

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because it wsa in an acident, they said i wasn't covered

Less.

Sorry to hear of your probs Clare and I dont mean tagging along with Spiky

Shings

fuck that when I smashed mine into the trees on the way to the pod they dragged it out and took it home... but that was RAC.

too late now.... good u giot home tho

Rhys

Spiky how did it cost you that much??



Gutted Clare!!!! u two had an eventfull weekend

Sexy-RS

Bloody hell you to didn't have much luck this weekend

Cola

Cor you two had a right mare didn't you!

Good for you on the FUCK YOU though Clare!

And agreed with everyone else, the M1 on a Sunday eve is NOT the place to clutch dodge!

Kev H

SNAP! I know the feeling, my clutch cable snapped on the way back aswell but i managed to drive it the following 250 miles home , most of it was all motorway thankfully and there was no hold up's. There was a couple of hairy moments at the odd junction though. I only had to start it in gear twice

Oh yeh, coming through the tolls at the Forth road bridge i just threw the guy the £1 and kept going