CRAIG HAYTER

I mean like when you have went to buy or collect a car and its went wrong and its been a nightmare lol

i will start off here goes

My mate asked me to go and meet a guy from inverness to do a deal for my mates scoobie on his corsa turbo so anyway me and my other freind went up met the boy and we followed him to his house Had a look around it max powered oot its head but thats when max power things were the in admit it you know they were cool at the time:lo: thing i get the guy to start it up as it had a dead battery with not getting usedso we got it started sounded fine all was good.....................until i tried to open the passenger door but i forgot to mention they were lambo doorsi got the driver side open no probs but the passenger was stiff the boy said "just pull it up it will be fine"i told him "i will just leave it to you" he comes around and pulls then fkn door off and it hits the ground he turn and looked at me to say what the fk have i done i then phone my mate and tell him "your not going to believe whats happend...................the fkn door has fell off and hit the deck" at this time iam quite pissed off as i traveled a good bit to get this car and my mate was rally wanting this corsa my mates reply was "just tell him to give you 300 quid and i will get it fixed" i then said to the boy i have a full brand new system for the scoobie as i sold mine and never fitted it and noticed he had a saxo vtr looked a tidy car i said to him "i will take the car BUT............. i also want your saxo aswell and i will through in my exhaust for the scoobie"he was a bit in shock and was wondering to do it or not he went to his mates house asked him then came back and said "i just paid 1800 pounds for that... i really cant..........................right ok i will do it" so we changed papers and told him i would take the saxo home then he said "oohh theres no brakes they need bled" my reply was to him "does it have a hanbrake" "yeah but no foot brake" "thats good enough for me"at this point i just wanted home was meant to be a couple of hours was there for about 7 hoursso i get the saxo safely

a couple of days later my mate who's scoobie it was came up with me to see the car we get up there and the guy phoned my mate saying ther altinator is fkd it will need a new one my mate told him to get it in a garage get it fixed and he will sqaure him up when he collects the car we got up there and the boy didnt do it we finally got a garage had to pay double as it was past working hours and we were desprate to get the car back to get it home so were makeing track home having a race iam in the evo he's in the corsa turbo blasting up the side of me then i take off so iam driving down the road and dont see his lightspull back and the corsa turbo wount startits right on a bad blind corner and we were shitting itwaiting on someone to crash into us we pushed it abit down the road for saftey then we though its going to cost a few quid to get it recoverd down the road phone the AAso we phone up join and the ask whats the problem i said "i smell petrol and its like it over feuling its self i think it maybe leaking petrol" the woman said "we will be with you shortly"but we had been ther for about 4 hours already we jumped into the evo and them went back to the corsa it fkn locked itself picture the scene no door lock,handles it was freezing in the middle of the night and really really getting pissed right off.................NOT GOOD then to top it off our phone's died my mate had a charger but it wouldnt fit into any off our phones but he ripped the phone connecting bit and stuck the wires to his battery and pluged it into the evo cig lighter...............and it worked aswell fk nose how but it did the guy comes about an hour and a half later jumps out his truck and lights a fag up after telling them we think its petrol then he walks round the car looks at and says "theres nothing i could do"and fks off WTF we phoned the AA back and ask them wtf is going on the said they will send someone else outhe comes round about 3hrs later gets the bonnet open and tricks the battery to get the doors to openhe said you need to get something like the gold card from them for them to move us to saftey never mind down the road 15 hrs later yes 15hrs later starving,cold,feeling and looking like shite my parent call my mates phone and said "i have been onto the sun(newspaper)and another one and they are wanting a story"they phone and i told them whats happened and they said whats your comments on this.....well i am disgusted with the AA been here 15-16hrs in the freezing cold as the car locked itself and we have had to sit on the grass"so then about 45 mins later the AA said they would come and move the car back to dundee if we didnt give the papers a report on this but at the same time we had the evo so they came we jumped in the evo and ripped it home lol so the car got took home and we went straight to our beds lol

still cant get over the AA guy walking round the car with a fag when i said"its petrol leaking"i was the best man at my mates wedding but after a few............sorry alot of wine that was my story but i swore all the way through iteveryone was looking at me like i was mentalbeen on another few trips with him always something happen so i told him no more

NEVER AGAIN<<<<<REAL TEARS:lol

scoobypete

lol thats brilliant lololol

RUPERT THE BIG HAIRY BEAR

lol funny story that

CRAIG HAYTER

It was shitefunny when i think about it now not at the time though

Northants Ford Fan

A couple of my mates borrowed a granada to tow a metro 6r4 rep back on a trailer one night down off the m4, got down there fine then the fun began, about 20miles after setting off to come back the alt light came on the dash, they managed a further 20 odd miles in the rain and dark before the car completey dies on the hard shoulder about 9 at night, they try and get the car recovered by joining the AA but as the granada had no tax they would touch it, (yeah stupid driving a car with no tax) so in the end get a local recovery from northampton to go and recover them this has taken about 2 hours to sort, you think thats that sorted you would be wrong, my mate gets a phone call after about an hour the recovery truck has got a flat and is waiting for someone to come out and sort it, which took an extra hour, the truck eventually picks them up by which time they are freezing cold, they evetually get home about 2am about 9hrs after they left and with a recovery charge of about £350 plus the £130 or so for the AA so what was a cheap project turned out to be a expensive nightmare

CRAIG HAYTER

sounds like he had fun like me

RUPERT THE BIG HAIRY BEAR

lol its all part off the fun though

Glenn_

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Graig i love your story lol.

Barry_GTi

Going to cut a LONG story short:

Borrowed a mates Dad's van to take a car down from Glasgow to Yeovil and then pick another car up on the way back up the road, all in one day(that was a bad enough start). Anyway left at 11pm night before, got to Yeovil in the morning and dropped first car off, spent some time talking to guy about it and headed off at around 10:30 to over near Oxford to get the other. Had to wait about an hour for the prick to return home even though he knew we were down from Scotland.

So get loaded up around 14:30 or so and start heading back up road, got to Stafford Services on M6 and filled with Diesel. Van wouldn't fucking start . So I start checking basics, and mate checks fuses etc. We get totally stuck and have to PUSH the van and car trailer off the forecourt. We phone his Dad and he says it has AA cover so just phone. Well after about an hour of calls back and forth and all over the fucking country confirming it is covered they say they will send someone out.

So guy turns up in an Astravan..... He puts jump pack on it and funnily enough that doesn't fix it. So he says he is sending for a truck to recover to local place, we were now angling to get returned home as we had Platinum cover and had been on the go for fucking ages, it was now around 8pm. So another hour and truck arrives(all the time I am trying to find the fault with no tools), takes us to a local place about 45 mins away and send us in to nice warm room(helped make me even more tired).

After another 35mins some mecchanic turns up, they wouldn't let me borrow a test light ot anything. Cunt only finds a blown fuse

I swear I could have kicked my mate square in the balls, I had asked him 5 times if he was sure fuses were good.

So at about 10pm we get back on our way, with still around 4 hours to do...........

We had to stop at around Preston for a sleep, left it running with heater on as it was baltic, I wake up about an hour and a half later fucking freezing. My mate had only turned the fucker off and opened a window slightly as he got too hot.......... Luckily it restarted this time and we kept going till we got home at about................ 5am Monday morning. promptly went to bed and slept all day, getting a right bollocking from boss but no way was I working.

Fucking funny now though,

LHD220Turbo

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Craig, i think you win first prize for the most face animations in one thread!

CRAIG HAYTER

^^^^^^

Bary its always silly things like that the fk up a journey isnt it

carlo

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Years ago on the way back from knockhill andys old ldv van run out of fuel or broke down cant quite remember! he was towing the black escort cossie on the trailor! He took the escort off the trailor & towed the van & trailor with it

TIFF

I couldnt read the story as the smileys were doing my head in......Felt like i was at a rave in the early 90's

mozzy

this is a good one. I am a mobile security officer basically i respond to intruder alarm activations. when i was 19 I had an orion 1.6i ghia with rs turbo engine etc, one unfortunate night the gear box went pop so I bought a 1993 metro 1100s as a runaround until the orion was fixed. 2 weeks later the orion was fixed and the metro was sold for 40 squid. the following night i got called to a CO-OP store in Bristol for a ram raid when i got there there were 5 police cars and a helicopter scouring the area (bad bit of bristol known as hartcliffe) and there was the metro i sold the day before embedded in the front of the shop, the police done a pmc check already and i heard an officer say he was going to the owners house, I was like "No need I am already here lol" the v5 had not reached the dvla so it was still in my name.

CRAIG HAYTER

Carlo i would have just left the van instaed of towing with my escos

Mozzy thats a cracker

alanfordtw-15

couldnt read the story with all those smileys!
few days ago i was towing a 325 touring with my 325 when it lost a wheel and the half shaft came out the back onto the middle of the road and burst the sump of my buddies punto who was behind for lights. had to hitch him on after fixing the wheel and tow the two cars the last two miles

RSTurboSI

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about 2 years ago, Me and My Bro went off down to Bristol which is a good trip down, We made a good day of it and hocked up the taller to the car, bear in mind this car is only a ford escort Esta with a crappie 1.8 D engine without a turbo, so we headed off, Ready to go and collect our E30 BMW 5door for 300 nickers, cheap drift slag. So we headed off, Popped down to 24 services for some food and drinks for on the way, Not only food and drinks, but fags, we brought our selfs 20 sigs and that would be enough, headed down and made it there even tho sitting in 6hours worth of traffic, Get to the place and the BMW was in a drty state, not been moved for 6years and not sure if the engine starts. So this guy lives on a huge hill, Middle of winter, freezing cold, well, what can i say, the guy signs his side of the paper work, we attempt to put this BMW onto the trailer, its a hudge massive hill, off we go, both out the car and my bro pushing it, we start to push it up this hill, heres me pushing like im superman, for him to let go and guess what ''starts to roll down the hill, with me attached to the rear end, I dent jump off as this car is going down this hill at some speed, Half 11 at night and Bam! Right into the curb, Lucky enuff im not damaged, but the car, No zorst now, and rear Bumper bent. ''ah well, ill only smash it on the track anyways it'll be fine. So we have a plan to drive the car down with the trailer and winch it on, yeah right, winch is fucked, So heres me with a hammer smashing 10 bells of shit out of the winch and it finally comes apart, pull the car onto the trailer, Hand brake Fails on the escort est. Grate one, but hay, it got the BM onto the trailer, so we start to head up the hill, and down again, no problems, Go to have a fag as where both stressed, Kev you got the fags? No i thought you had them? No, OH shit, i must of thought they was empty and thrown them out the window. FUCKING KNOB!.. i was in a right mood, trying to gaine speed up thease Hills like there mountings, cluch slipping, finally get onto the motorway, and cruise, this time we have fags and there staying in my FUCKING pocket. Half way home, 2hours to travel, the damn heaters pack up, No joke, Icy window. cant see a dam thing, the wind blowing the car back and forth, its 4am in the morning, And driving like ace Ventura. Finally pull in at a garage and have a kip. Turn engine off, and i think, lets sort this heater out, grab a spanner, and BANG! blow my arm, my face. and anything coming into contact with the battery, Fucking Arm is burning like its on fire, and being scratched by a stray cat. So heres me, coverd in battery Fluid, to find a bodge job of the battery, open the bonnet at this point of the bmw and remove that battery, do my own barry boys job and wow, we have life, heres me still coverd in battery fluid, and him still fast asleep, im trying to ease the pain with singing bob Marley ‘’everything ganna be alright’’ as I have no tunes, sat inside a truck stop. Everything going wrong, change the fuse on the escort, and bam, happy with that fucker, head to the loos and have a baby shower and try dry myself, get a lot of drugs and head back to the car, Hes gone. No car there, no phone on me, nothing, me looking for him for over 2hurs, to find him messing around parked behind a twin trallerd lorry, thanks, me fucking freezing, not only in just a t-shirt, but its socking wet. Ice on the floor, and see ya, on my arse. NOT GOOD. Now I have a burning arm, tired, and a numb ass, getting to the stage of frezzing point. We headed home, I spent the next day in the hospital with 3rd degree burns to my left arm, and a hudge cold.

Thanks bro.!

RUPERT THE BIG HAIRY BEAR

lol some good storys there

CRAIG HAYTER

" im trying to ease the pain with singing bob Marley ‘’everything ganna be alright’’ "
lmao

"I spent the next day in the hospital with 3rd degree burns to my left arm, and a hudge cold."

bet you felt like killing your bro at the time

RSTurboSI

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i have more. LOL.

Day Zero. Time 5:45pm, Location Nottingham to East Scotland. Time travel, 2days on a safe Drive

So, I mate called me while at work, Didnt finished untill half 4, asked if i fancy coming with him to go collect his new shell. XR3I shell for 250 quid, no problem mate, where is it? Scotland, your having a laugh right? you relise it wont take us 5min to get there? More like 2 days, its a friday so im like yeah whatever pal. We start off, car has no problems, Auto aswell so easy drive, Runn around for winter, AGAIN winter. We finaly get there, Bright and early, The Guy was selling his wheels to someone else, so we changed them over for some old Oz 16s we had, not a bad car, no rust, track ready with a good set of camber, got bored of the project and brought himself a skyline, so fair play, Cranked it up, sounds all fine, no problems, we needed fuel so its going to be an easy tank and half each, so we both rim them, Try do a Top gear Drive back to Nottingham on one tank, buy some of that Tuff Tape, gaffer i think, and tape them up! make a bet and on our way, fucking 3I wouldnt start, Jump leads are a no go as we didnt bring any, 2mile walk later i have jump leads, i knocked on a old mans door, petrol sation didnt even sell a pack of fucking fags, didnt understand what he said, or ment. bar the price of the fuel, got the cars going, and did a runner with this guys jump leads, Bless him, Felt bad robbing an old man, Getting half way home, text message, Im low on fuel mate, ganna need to fill up, heres me Jumping up and down as i won 50pound!!!! Oh yes, im the best, i knew i would win, ahahaha laughing at his loss pull into the petrol sation and unlike topgear, we didnt make it, and wasnt risking drying the tank out, so we tryed to fill the beast up, and i still had half a tank, couldnt get the tape off, and couldnt get the cap open, Well i did play a tick and tape up the cap and added some extra super glue i found in his glove box... funny at the time, now isnt, frezzing cold, getting dark rather fast, and stuck inside this petrol sation, finaly, after a bit of force we get the cap off and have to buy one of them plastic caps, Now whos the clever one. filled it up, started the car, we noticed the car ran a bit Lumpy, idel real bad, but just jumped in and hoped for the best, Travel around 2/5 miles and the car is Puffing like a steam train, Not good. Pull up on the hard sholder and the car just dies, the dick put in Diesel, waited 3hours and finaly get home, was a night and a half, and will always dubble check the difference between black pump, and GREEN

RSTurboSI

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well, i only agreed that ill come along and help aslong as he has a reliable car, pull wagen. Which he then Repated he was 100% sure we would have no problems,

Now, I have not spoken to him since, The Barry boys battery Job got him from Nottingham, To rhiner In germany, with 2 broken wish bones, wheel bearings and a clutch, But, Not a battery Fail.

Dont worry, I slep with his ex GF after He left, Hes now back over here and i still aint gone to see him,

CRAIG HAYTER

heres another one bud no icons


My mate same fucker again lol phones me up it was friday about 4 and says come up to mine i need to show you this impreza ra its smart as fuck.After work i stopped at his house and he says he has phoned up for this impreza ra and told the boy he would leave tonight drive through the night and be there in the morning so i was hoping he wouldnt ask me as he always gets stuck in shity situations like the one above.He then came out with the words "you want to go on a road trip........iam have no one to go with me" i felt sorry and said ok were is it........Birningham i then could have dropped in tears as its MILES away pulled myself togther and said ok we will leave in the morning as i will need to get slp as i usualy drive there and back because he's fly as fuck and goes to sleep he says no we need to leave at about 2 in the morning just have a sleep in the car i had been at work all day really couldnt be fkd but what are mates for i went home got showered,changed and had my tea went back up to his he showed me photo's the guy sent and had to say it looked really good so 2 in the morning comes and were on our way me driving like i knew he was going to do cunt!!! Nackard already i proceed to make this go as quick as possible journey as possible when i got down about 20 miles outside of Birningham i had to get him to drive as even match stickes could not hold me eye lids open anymore was out of the game i jumped in the back and closed my eyes that felt like for about 20 seconds and we are there BUT no subaru iam thinking wtf is going here ther boy see's us outside in the car and comes out.My mates says wheres the car whats going on the guy replys its at my uncles house do you want a cuppa coffie to help you's out you's look tired so went into his house it was smelling like a fkn brothel will never forget that smell its making me sick thinking about it now typeing this so we drank over cuppa's REALLY quick and followed the boys to his uncle turned around the car theres a subaru like the one we are her to collect....my eyes like a chinese man half shut spring open and think thats it iam going to kill this bastard before we go any futher its meant to be i quote "THE BEST SUBARU IMPREZA TURBO IN THE UK IN MINT CONDITION"the bumpers were hanging off,wheel nuts missing,looked like it hadnt been moved in years,wrong interior for the sti ra and to top it off it didnt even start i seen red and was chasing the boy around the car in his front garden i really could have killed him he is shouting to my mate sort your mate out my mate then starts laughing as iam like a bull and this guy his showed me red he appoligises and i finally settle down i was really pissed off as i drove 400+ miles to see this my mate says you sent me photo's and it looked mint the boy repliys oh the there about 2 years old sorry its the only photo's i had i had to contain myself and went back into our car and was sitting ready to run the fkr down we ended up leave and had a look around garage for a new car as we wanted to have somthing else to go home in i ended up driving back up to york and getting a impreza turbo and sold it before we got back up the road to a freind i could have killed that guy and my mate that day

RSTurboSI

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its miles for you, Brum, but around 40miles from mine, haha...

Good old star city.. LOL.. should of poped on here, i would of offerd you a nights sleep.

Thats what mates do, ive had a few others, but there not really bad moments, i was exspecting my RS To be bad, but i chose a real good one down from brum aswell..

dojj

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i'd dropped my car off 270 odd miles away in plymouth and it was ready to collect

so i got the call and, after getting to work that morning at around 4am, i decided that i'd go and get it that afternoon

so after work me and my mate set off, he was asleep most of the way there though
got there just before 5pm, had a spin in the car, bloody impressed at how fast it was
got on the motorway to go home

got to the point where i was about to give it some beans and made sure the road was clear

gave it full beans and it went pretty fast

then it blew up

so had to wait 3 hours for the aa guy to come out and recover us the 200+ miles back home again who said it was a split pipe

stuck some oil in, fixed the pile, clean up the brakes etc and he said it was ok to go home in

so it was a LONG 50 mph trip home, only to have ot be at work for 4am the next morning so i drove straight to work

anyhow, a few days later it split again so i got on the blower to be otld that i shoudl bring the car back to plymouth again

so i made arrangemetns to go down there overnight with my cousin, dropped it off first thing in the morning and then headed home, in a 1.3 escort it was a fair bit of a mission i tell thee

and then i had to go and colelct it again a few weeks later when it was fixed

phew!

fair play though it never missed a beat after that other than for my own foolishness or stupidity

CRAIG HAYTER

any pics of your turbo Si

RSTurboSI

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indeed.

https://passionford.com/forum/pictur...est-again.html

dojj

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or the time when my brother missed his coach by about 30 seconds and then i had to drive him to manchester, and both our mobile phones died on the way up so we didn't know where we were going and it was sunday night so nothign was open

or the time i went to manchester to collect some bits for the car and ended up bringing back 2 cars absolutly bursting to the seams with bits and bobs and couldn't see out the side window let alone the rear view mirrors

or the latest one where me and mick went from london to newbury, then to derby, then to manchester, then to norwich, then back london, and then back to newbury again

THAT was a mission in a transit 12 seater van 600+ miles and it took from morning till the middle of the night

never again, we are too old to be doing this sort of nonsence any more

bigryrs

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Ive got a cracker!!
I was looking through the scot-ads paper one friday night and i see a fiesta mk2 xr2 for sale 700 quiod ono so i txt the guy asking if he would take a swap for a trials bike so the deals on we head through to a town about 20 miles from mine!! we have a look at the xr2 which has no mot or tax and the deals done!! its just after teatime in winter and its getting dark so i set off in the fiesta and my bird is behind me in her mk4 fiesta! we head to the next town for petrol and the headlights are getting dimmer all the time! i pull up turn off the motor,fill her up and jump in to fire her up but nothing! no dash lights nothing! so im sitting there in an old xr2 with no mot,no tax,no insurance and banned from driving (this was years ago when i was young and stupid btw) so i get out and ask a lad to give me a hand bump starting it and wtf the alarm starts going! so i pop the bonnet jump out and rip that fucker out as quick as poss! bang goes down the bonnet and im outta there as fast as that little rust bucket would take me!! so my birds in front with the headlights as mine are dimming all the time and all of a sudden i see lights behind me and freak out so im off like a shot! overtook my bird and luckily the moon was out that night lol fuck knows how i managed to drive in the dark with hardly any lamps!! so im getting chuft cos im just outside my town and bang the whole sky flashes and the car dies!! my exhaust fell off at the downpipe!!
At this point im thinking wtf am i gonna do now so i manage to push that piece of shit along the road a bit and down a side road! we jump in my birds fiesta and get the jump leads from my garage,head back to the fiesta,jump start it and let it tickover sounding like a tank for 5 mins than im off heading back into town with no exhaust on an xr2 with hardly any lights!
I get it to my garage eventually and thats my story of an absolute shit night.
Needless to say the fiesta was sold 1 week later thank god!!
lessons learned dont drive illegaly ever again lol

CRAIG HAYTER

llf Ryan did you get that from dundee iam geussing then?

bigryrs

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kirrie lol fcuking shithole

opposite lock

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Quality!!!!!!!!!lol

CoupeUK

I'm sorry chaps but I cannot read half of the stuff in here lol

Benni

FROFL.

Benni.

CRAIG HAYTER

Anymore guys

TurboShed

On LSD, Speed and weed and behind the wheel of a Renault 5 aged 17 or 18, long long drive down this hill (Hog's Back in Surrey), found out ALL about brake fade at the bottom... there's a roundabout, a Jaguar in front... BAM! It was this really cool old dude, never said A WORD! Just handed me his business card, I scribbled my name and address on a bit of paper and gave it to him. Fucking surreal! So anyway, my bird opens the car door, pukes, shuts car door - we head on to intended destination being a party somewhere and have a great night!

bigryrs

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Brilliant night lol

stuarth

Not a car,car story but, seen a nice kx250 on bike trader, phoned the guy up sounded good .So arranged to go get it on the sat, then rememberd it was in london , thought fuck it road trip !!, went on the sat morning got a tow bar fitted on ma shogun picked ma mate up fa work at12 off we went. got 2 carlisle and it started raning put ma wipers on and the car died , turned wipers off and on it went , then battery light started to flicker,brilliant alt on its way out.Thought fuck it got this far lol so by this time was getting dark, long story short got losed eventualy get to guys house bikes mint, pay the man and off we go way na lights 11pm at nite,go into services buy 2 torches and blag some tape stick the lights on trailer and on we go got stop 7-8 times by traffics manage ta bull shit them every time get all way home way no lights, get to roundabout 2 min fa house and bike falls off lol.eventually get home . Get up nxt day ,well afternnoon , wanting to take bike out look at jeep and turns out fann belts slack 5 min and its sorted

xr-stu

a few years back me and a mate chris (digitaldragon) were planning on going to collect a rollcage for his mk2 fiesta turbo, from essex, after a day at castle coombe.

we left castle coombe sometime in the afternoon in the fiesta, got on the motorway, a few miles later, the car began to behave oddly, and we summised that the diff was on its way out, and was locking. it was happening intermitently, and as we were on the motorway going straight, we thought fuck it

around 9pm iirc, we arrive at canvey island in essex, we're trying to workout where this guy lives (this is pre-satnav) and promptly drive past his road. arse. 1/2 way through a 3 point turn, you guessed it, diff locked, with wheels on full lock, its shit itself.

we push the car up a side road and walk back to this guys house (hes fucking determined to get this roll cage ), a while later and the three of us are walking back to the car with this roll cage, 20 mins or so later, its fitted. great! new roll cage fitted! but no drive

a phonecall to the AA later and one of their finest is on his way to our rescue, we wander around to try and find somewhere to get food etc, but being late on a sunday night, no chance. we head back to the car and wait for the AA guy to show up. about an hour later, around 10.30-11pm he shows up. one man in just a transit, after explicit instructions over the phone that the gearbox was broken and the car wasnt going anywhere....

this guy gets on the phone, sorts us a recovery truck, and is on his way. we try and get comfortable and wait for his mate to show up, i push the seat back, recline the back a bit and try to catch a few Zzz's.

me - "can you smell that?"
chris - "yeah....wtf is burning?"
me - "fuck knows....but theres smoke!!"

we dive out the car quick style and realise that when ive sat back in the chair, ive shorted out the battery which is mounted behind the seat!! smoke EVERYWHERE!!! we rip the seat forward and thankfully, there was no perminant damage!

some time later, the truck shows up, winches us on and we're off home, great, its only the middle of the bastard night

one truck change later somewhere down the M4 and we're on the final leg, we finally arrived back at chris's house in bristol at sometime past 7am, then he had to drop me off at the train station and i had to get a train home, as he had picked me up the previous morning. i finally got home about 10am!

fucking nightmare