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Pitts Jr.
24-02-10, 01:04 AM
right i think this is the first thing i have to post in this Rant section, not so much of a rant rahter than one of those days, firstly went to school all day which was terrible as always then left school and drove the 20min drive to work happy as larry. got to work for bout an hour then me and my boss left, turned my car on, sorted out the tunes then moved off, pulled out of the yard where i work and got my car into 2nd gear and it started to really badly stutter. so i pull over to see what it was, opened the bonnet and started to check things, then all of a sudden with a cough and a splutter it died, so i quickly jumped in the car to try and start it again, no luck, so i sit there for a while trying it every so often. then i finally give up and phone my dad for some help, bout half hour later he turns up has a look over the car then was about to phone the RAC when i remember that the centre HT lead came off once a couple of months ago so we pull it off to check the connection...

and i head a "ting" as a piece of metal falls out of the end of the HT lead, hmm **** i was thinking. half was left in the distributor cap half on the floor and the HT lead its self no longer any use. so dad says we will jump in his car and shoot off to halfords (about a 10 min) drive down the road, got in and guess what his car wont start, my sister had had the music on so had drained the battery. hmm... what next, so dad phones RAC to get his car sorted and they say a 75 min max wait, so in the mean time me and my sister decide to walk round to halfords after phoning them to see that they had HT leads and distributor cap. we walk round takes like 20 mins to walk round there got the bits £50 later this is, we walk back takes a further 20 mins got back and dad had just got off the phone to RAC theres a further 2 hour delay. hmmm not good...

so we fit the new distributor cap and centre HT lead and my car lives again, so i quickly turn my car round and jump start my dads, then drive home.

this just sums up today tbh. bit of a story and sorry for that but i thought u all my like to know my journey home from work that takes a whole 10 mins in a good run ended up taking 3 hours. so as you can imagine i wasnt happy.


right rant over! :D :ack2:

night everyone! hope you enjoyed the read!

jgilbert
24-02-10, 03:10 AM
bad times but welcome to many years motoring. nothing is usually simple and striaight forward if its the wrong day. i went out to a flooded saxo the other morning as the door seal had come away 3 hours later and £8 with many F's C's and others lol fingers crossed its done.

SPERMBANK
24-02-10, 06:23 AM
That is the joys of motoring.
It's good you know what to do when you open the bonnet, because there are loads of chimps out there that don't!

mayfair86
24-02-10, 08:29 AM
its a sign that dad needs a new car :) lol, well at least you should be having that problem again as to be honest that is the only thing that has gone wrong with your car.

on a more positive note, i got my angel eyes and spacers :) they look awesome!!!
Im assuming you dont have any credit so ill give you a ring later after you finish work :)

amy-v17
24-02-10, 09:42 AM
did you mean to say at least you shouldnt have that problem again? lol.

We've all had one of those days at least you got it sorted :)

millerblud
24-02-10, 11:22 AM
its a sign that dad needs a new car :) lol, well at least you should be having that problem again as to be honest that is the only thing that has gone wrong with your car.

on a more positive note, i got my angel eyes and spacers :) they look awesome!!!
Im assuming you dont have any credit so ill give you a ring later after you finish work :)

please tell me the angel eyes are going on the mini :)

Pitts Jr.
24-02-10, 11:37 AM
im off all day josh im ill! and yeah gotta replace the other 4 HT leads when i have a sec then should all be ok fingers crossed!

Sh4dow
24-02-10, 11:57 AM
oh gutted..my fuel line came off in me engine once that was a nitemar the clipp busted off so had to try n do some seirous diy in the dark n get it home wasnt impressed

mayfair86
24-02-10, 01:43 PM
did you mean to say at least you shouldnt have that problem again? lol.

We've all had one of those days at least you got it sorted :)

hehe yea i did thanks amy :)

-m4rk-b-
24-02-10, 02:06 PM
why u just not bump ur dads car :) peice of cakeeee

Pitts Jr.
24-02-10, 02:28 PM
didnt overly fancy pushing tbh, too much effort! :D