Re: Absolute Radio kill an Allegro
Posted: Sun Jun 24, 2012 2:28 am
Looking back at this whole episode i'm now thinking it's a set-up right from the start,
They chose an Austin Allegro then repeatedly kept telling it people that in one survey it was voted the worst car ever, as if they where paving the way for justifying its destruction
When they filled it up with diesel conveniantly they spefically filmed the act, now if you wanted the car to fail and didn't have specific mechanical knowedge to cause a believable breakdown then filling up with diesel is the easiest method, as for how far it got before it spluttered to a holt, the video suggest it went a long way but on the broadcast i'm sure they said the layby was only a mile and half from the filling station, which would probably be a float chamber and fuel lines worth.
They said on the broadcast that it would cost far more to repair than they paid for it ( which i think was around £400 from as they said 'a dodgey car dearler' ) hence it was only fit for scrap, who came to that conclusion? the engine could have been damaged, in which case another engine would have been the obvious answer, A series 'lumps' can be found for not alot of money, but it may have only need the fuel system draining but it seems there was no attempt to investigate how much damaged had been done, the poor car being recovered straight to a scrap yard.
Not sure how some people have concluded that there was no engine and box in it, cant make out it's absense on the video, and it's removal would needed to have been done very quickly somewhere between the Allegro being recovered and arriving at the scrap yard, when it was forklifted away i think where they took would have been one of those bays they have to remove all fluids before scrapping.
I was listening to Absolute radio on the morning of the 22-6-2012 (friday) and i texted and e-mailed them saying dont scrap the Allegro and offering them help, but the only mention of listeners responses to the events was that many people have contacted them saying dont scrap it, but they said there was no hope for it, they never for one moment considerd that there was any other course than scrapping it making me believe that crushing of it on air was a pre-arranged dramatic end to the story.
there are good grounds for suspecting that this was a pre-arranged series of events in an attempt to make 'good radio' but my prediction that it would back fire on them appears to already be coming true if you read the comments left on you-tube.
They chose an Austin Allegro then repeatedly kept telling it people that in one survey it was voted the worst car ever, as if they where paving the way for justifying its destruction
When they filled it up with diesel conveniantly they spefically filmed the act, now if you wanted the car to fail and didn't have specific mechanical knowedge to cause a believable breakdown then filling up with diesel is the easiest method, as for how far it got before it spluttered to a holt, the video suggest it went a long way but on the broadcast i'm sure they said the layby was only a mile and half from the filling station, which would probably be a float chamber and fuel lines worth.
They said on the broadcast that it would cost far more to repair than they paid for it ( which i think was around £400 from as they said 'a dodgey car dearler' ) hence it was only fit for scrap, who came to that conclusion? the engine could have been damaged, in which case another engine would have been the obvious answer, A series 'lumps' can be found for not alot of money, but it may have only need the fuel system draining but it seems there was no attempt to investigate how much damaged had been done, the poor car being recovered straight to a scrap yard.
Not sure how some people have concluded that there was no engine and box in it, cant make out it's absense on the video, and it's removal would needed to have been done very quickly somewhere between the Allegro being recovered and arriving at the scrap yard, when it was forklifted away i think where they took would have been one of those bays they have to remove all fluids before scrapping.
I was listening to Absolute radio on the morning of the 22-6-2012 (friday) and i texted and e-mailed them saying dont scrap the Allegro and offering them help, but the only mention of listeners responses to the events was that many people have contacted them saying dont scrap it, but they said there was no hope for it, they never for one moment considerd that there was any other course than scrapping it making me believe that crushing of it on air was a pre-arranged dramatic end to the story.
there are good grounds for suspecting that this was a pre-arranged series of events in an attempt to make 'good radio' but my prediction that it would back fire on them appears to already be coming true if you read the comments left on you-tube.
