breakdown truck

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JPB
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Re: breakdown truck

#2361 Post by JPB »

:lol: Thing is though, while the seller is obviously a comedy legend among eBay visitors, it is entirely possible to change the colour of your discs.
Here's what you do:
Take one lovely Volvo 142S that's had its pads removed pending the fitting of a fresh set. Don't tell your tutor that you didn't fit them yet, but replace the wheels so that the car could be moved temporarily. Finally, shriek with shameful joy at the language being used by the tutor in question, who'd decided to take his car, obviously all done as the wheels were on, down into Leith from the city centre via the thoroughfare famously known as Leith Walk, which equally famously is a downhill bit of road that might only be half a mile long but feels like more when the car has no pads in its front calipers. Praise Volvo for their foresight in splitting the circuits in each caliper, which definitely prolonged the agony.
Realise that the car has stopped without needing to drive it at a solid object and then, best of all, look at the discs and be glad that they're now that lovely shade of blue (front pair) and straw (rear pair). It's amazing how much fluid a 21mm master cylinder can move when you pump hard enough to prevent its bottoming!

Some would say that bottoming would have been a suitable punishment for the student who didn't leave a post it on the wheel to advise of his pause, some would say that the staff member who didn't check for himself was just as bad?

Conclusion:
Anyone who changes the colour of their discs should be bottomed for a whole week and only set free again when they've eaten a light bulb..
J
"Home is where you park it", so the saying goes. That may yet come true.. :oops:
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Re: breakdown truck

#2362 Post by rich. »

did the tutor in question ask if the car was ready?
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Re: breakdown truck

#2363 Post by JPB »

No comment. :scared:
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Re: breakdown truck

#2365 Post by GHT »

Rich the first link is showing: Cette annonce est désactivée. What is it, another Vauxhall?
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Re: breakdown truck

#2366 Post by rich. »

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Re: breakdown truck

#2367 Post by JPB »

Been stored in barn for over 30 years.
I'd never have guessed. :lol:
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Re: breakdown truck

#2368 Post by GHT »

Whose going to shop me? At Brooklands last weekend, there was an event called MG something or other. MG's were there in their thousands. (I have been told.) A line up of cars like mine was arranged, also a line up of MGC's. The Y Type is 70 years young this year and the MGC is 50. I was at a vintage dance in Titchfield Hampshire, all togged up as usual. Had the usual: "Where are you?" texts.
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Re: breakdown truck

#2369 Post by rich. »

GHT wrote: Wed Apr 05, 2017 3:50 pm Whose going to shop me?
if you are anything like me, i find it very difficult to be in 2 places at the same time.. its a real nuisance.... :D
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Re: breakdown truck

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