Come on then chaps. Who else broke down on the way to and from Ford Fair this year?

You might have seen my Red Series 2 on the hard shoulder in various spots along the M40 and M42 on the way up.

And in the entrance to a farm just outside Banbury on the way home.

Saw a couple off Saffs and a Fiesta RS Turbo being recoverd so I wasn't alone.

 

It was on the trailer so never had chance to break down, so it decided to develop a problem on the track session

 

Much to my amazement, we got all the way there and all the way back virtually without incident.

My heatshield thats attached to the underside of my bonnet broke and scratched my slam-panel to shit, had to stop and sort that out, but apart from that was all cool.

 

My car proper shocked me! Drove all the way there and back completely trouble free! An cained it most of the day!

 

The ones that breakdown are done by the DIY guys

now would they do a total rewire job of there house top to bottom in the same sense with no previous experience then complain something is wrong with it

since stu @ msd sold his cossie its not missed a beat track days the lot so it just goes to show

 

Does anyone know who's grey 3dr blew up on track? It sounded expensive

 

We got there and done a track sesion and drove home without any problems at all


Brian

 

was you the guy with 17" rs 7 spokes on, that got 2 punctures?

 

No problems with my 3 door , foot down up there and back and didnt miss a beat

 

Mine ran faultless all the way there and back, and had the arse kicked out of it all the way, not bad for a diy job

Steve

 

Very sweeping statement.

 

Nope mine was the one with the wrongly wired TPS that was running lean on throttle and killed my spark plugs

 

mine was mint! No problems whatsoever

 

Mine did over 600 miles on Sunday and drove mint all day - sat in the traffic jam outside for about 80 mins and the temp didn't get above half way, not bad for a 23 year old sierra.

 

I BROKE DOWN!!!!! 2nd show in a row it broke down on the way to! Red S2 at peterborough servies station!

 

my little 1.4 escort made it there and back. really surprised as its a shit heap lol.

 

drove mine to pod, then to ford fair, did a track session, then drove home,

never misses a beat

 

That goes down in history and THE most ignorant comment I have EVER read.

Believe me, the standard of work in my car is FAR FAR higher than MOST cars I see on a day-to-day basis worked on by big-name tuners. The difference between a PROPER DIY'd car and a cheque-book tuned one is the fact that you can put a SERIOUS amount of time into fabbing bits yourself, far beyond what anyone could pay someone to do.

I really have taken offence to that remark.

 

mine broke itself before it even set off there new turbo needed

 

Mine wasnt ready in time, but mines a DIY bodge, but then i couldnt give a shit what my engine bay/car looks like as long as it works!

 

I went up in my brothers mk1 fiesta. Broke down on the way there and just as we got there. Alternator was knackered. Bought one while we was there, fitted it up on the stand, drove it back without fault. Not bad for a 27 year old car

 

It was Ele It didnt look good

 

Got to say i agree with your comment, its easy to build top end stuff when using the customers money, right pig headed im better than you comment and i couldnt give 2 shits whom you may be.

 

My 4be twincam ran faultlessly all the way there and back @ motorway speeds. Sat in the traffic, no problem. And only used less than half a tank of fuel all the way from Kent and back. The cabriolet had a slight water loss problem around junction 13 of the M1, but that was a simple perished heater hose which was remedied in about 2 minutes, including refilling the header tank. Not bad for a 23 year old car IMO which has not been touched under the bonnet except for "tarting up". New set of Roose black water hoses to be on order over the winter while it is laid up though, just in case.

 

kicked crap outa my golf,there and back no myther,well wouldnt trust my cossie,its never broke down,just the stigma of it which puts me off taking it on any long trips.

 

my car didn't break down on the way there or on the way back

 

Your golf wasnt a dark green one with a forsale sign in the window was it?

 

night before i was tryin on some new wheels which had slicks on and on the last one locking wheel nut key broke up :O:O
so i didnt even get to break down lol

 

well mine broke down on the way there .and no its not a diy job as i own www.stocktonautocentre.com .just the head gasket let go .....

 

it went past me with a taptaptaptaptaptap and loads of grey smoke!

 

We picked up a nail and had to run home on the spare
Not a break down as such but still a pain

 

my 3 door got me and my mate there just fine...............until we went to leave and the clutch quadrant decided to explode!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! D'oh

 

I was waiting in the traffic coming in. Fort turn car off for a bit, went to start it couldnt hear the fuel pump, looked under the dashs one of the wires had come apart for the immoblizer felt like a right dick! and i had the nice bird in car behind

 

Mine broke soon as i turned the key friday morning! so spent my weekend taking engine out!

 

there's diy and diy

i "diy" my track car and it's drive there and back and averaged 150miles on each track day

also nurburgring,

preperation is the key, do it right once, it and its fine

and my labour bill is pretty much ZERO


DIY is the way to go

 

I can feel your embarrassment from here

 

What a cock you are! not all of us have the money to dump our cars on someone else then come back and just pay for it!
Plus its so much better to do it your self! iv spent all day today in the drizerling rain sorting mine myself! i couldnt odds the mettering unit packing up! but she back out on the streets eating saxo's!

 

Can't be Spiky, you didn't pay someone to do it.

A bit like when we did our house up, the only jobs that are sub-standard are the ones we paid someone to do. Like the guy that screwed the pelmets on the cupboards through the inside of the cupboard (I'd have hidden the screws) and the guy that cut the worktop with the cooker on the piss to cover up the fact that he fucked it up. So don't talk to me about the PROPER trades doing things properly.

 

i did the 400 mile round trip and a few goes up the 0-60 5.04 secs with no failures or break downs was over the moon with that.

p-s my car is a diy built and mapped

 

I went up in my mates 4x4 saph and on the way there it managed to blow a pipe fitting out of thermostat housing and shoot coolant out everywhere, let it cool down whacked it back in and filled back up and perfect... he even done a 0-60 and we got home.
with a old ford carry a few select tools and 5l coolant and 5l oil sorted!