Look you selfish ****, there are people here waiting on a fucking good laugh. Where's the full story? -- Nigel - Manufacturer of the "Champion-105" range of rearsets WS* GHPOTHUF#24 APOSTLE#14 DLC#1 COFF#20 BOTAFOT#150 HYPO#0(KoTL) IbW#41 ZZR1100, Enfield 500 Curry House Racer "The Basmati Rice Burner", Honda GL1000K2 (On its hols) Kawasaki ZN1300 Voyager "Oh, Oh, It's so big"
Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, SteveH Speak for yourself, Attila. I want the full, unexpurgated story. -- Nigel - Manufacturer of the "Champion-105" range of rearsets WS* GHPOTHUF#24 APOSTLE#14 DLC#1 COFF#20 BOTAFOT#150 HYPO#0(KoTL) IbW#41 ZZR1100, Enfield 500 Curry House Racer "The Basmati Rice Burner", Honda GL1000K2 (On its hols) Kawasaki ZN1300 Voyager "Oh, Oh, It's so big"
Sorry, I've been to the panto with the little one tonight[1]. The story is I've got my mother-in-law visiting this weekend, so took her, the wife, Emma and the dog out to the beach. On the way back I needed to stop for petrol and, as I was filling up, Lisa said, "Do you know there's smoke coming from under your bonnet?" TBH it looked more like steam, which was puzzling because the temp gauge was reading fine. Anyway I didn't fancy opening the bonnet in case something was burning, because giving it lots of air while standing next to a petrol pump might have been a terminal move. So, I pushed the car as far from the pumps as I could get it and waited to see what was going to happen. It fairly quickly got worse and started looking a lot more smokey so the fire brigade were summoned. Minutes later, before they arrived, the front end of the car finally went "whump!", with impressive flames coming out of the F/O/S wheel arch, interior full of smoke, etc. The brigade turned up, blues and twos going and made swift work of getting it extinguished. They had a look under the bonnet and made the firm deduction that, "it's probably something electrical". The only anomaly is that two of the five hoses were disconnected from the injector pump. I assume they must have come off during the blaze as the car was running fine up to that point. I'll do some photos in the morning, but the thing is going to the scrappie. At the very minimum the damage is a new bonnet, new front wing, new wiring loom, new F/N/S tyre (which was less than two sodding weeks old), new bumper, new grill, one new headlight and it's not worth the hassle of finding out what the **** else is wrong with it. Unfortunately it's not worth the hassle of an insurance claim either ... I'll be lucky if the ins co give me 500 quid for it, minus my 300 excess and having it push up my bike and car insurance for the next five years. Oh well ... worse things happen at sea. [1] Oh yes I have! -- AndrewR, D.Bot (Celeritas) Kawasaki ZX-6R J1, Audi 100 Avant Quattro Crispy BOTAFOT#2,ITJWTFO#6,UKRMRM#1/13a,MCT#1,DFV#2,SKoGA#0 (and KotL) BotToS#5,SBS#25,IbW#34, TEAR#3 (and KotL), DS#5, COSOC#9, KotTFSTR# The speccy Geordie twat.
Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, AndrewR <Snip> Oh. That was curiously unamusing. Still, I suppose I'm glad your whole family didn't burn to death horribly. Bummer about the mother-in-law. Had you filled up before the conflagration? -- Nigel - Manufacturer of the "Champion-105" range of rearsets WS* GHPOTHUF#24 APOSTLE#14 DLC#1 COFF#20 BOTAFOT#150 HYPO#0(KoTL) IbW#41 ZZR1100, Enfield 500 Curry House Racer "The Basmati Rice Burner", Honda GL1000K2 (On its hols) Kawasaki ZN1300 Voyager "Oh, Oh, It's so big"
They could have burned to death in a far more amusing way. Selfish bastards. Always is. Isn't it amazing? The ramifications of changing your own plugs and leads instead of taking it to SWK and paying them money to do it? -- ColonelTupperware, spouting bollocks on Usenet since 1997 Usenet FAQ at http://www.its.caltech.edu/its/services/internetapps/news/news2.shtml UPCE FAQ at http://upce.org.uk/ UKRM FAQ at http://www.ukrm.net/faq/
<snip> "My mate's Quattro did the *exact* same thing ... and on a garage forecourt!" ... said a mate I told your story to just now. No more info than that, soz.
"CONSPIRACY!" -- Martin: "For a minute there, you bored me to death." VTR1000 Firestorm TDR250 http://ukrm.net/BIKES/Yamaha/tdr250.html martin dot smith nine zero three at ntlworld dot com
It was somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember Martin <inevitable> Was Timo cruising past, by any chance? -- Dave GS 850 x2 / SE 6a SbS#6 DIAABTCOD#16 APOSTLE#6 FUB#3 FUB KotL OSOS#12? UKRMMA#19 COSOC#10
People say I'm the life of the party 'cause I tell a joke or two Although I may be coughin' loud and hearty Deep inside I'm blue So take a good look at my car You see the bonnet looks kind of charred If you look closer it's easy to trace The tracks of the flames. If you see me with a crimper Actin' like I have a clue, Although it's only a lighter, I need a fire-fighter, Sirens loud and lights so blue. So take a good look at my car You see the bonnet looks kind of charred If you look closer it's easy to trace The tracks of the flames. Outside, the paint is blistered Inside, the seats are soaked I'm just a clown Since they put it out My wiring's a **** up I'm walking home, cos I haven't a clue. Eddie, Eddie, take a good look at my car You see the bonnet looks kind of charred If you look closer it's easy to trace The tracks of the flames. -- | ___ Salad Dodger |/ \ _/_____\_ GL1500SEV/CBR1100XXX/KH500A8/TS250C |_\_____/_| ..73063../..17250.../..3180./.19406 (>|_|_|<) TPPFATUICG#7 DIAABTCOD#9 YTC#4 PM#5 |__|_|__| BOTAFOT #70 BOTAFOF #09 two#11 WG* \ |^| / IbW#0 & KotIbW# BotTOS#6 GP#4 \|^|/ ANORAK#17 IbB#4 '^'
"I 'ate you, Dodger!" -- AndrewR, D.Bot (Celeritas) Kawasaki ZX-6R J1, Audi 100 Avant Quattro Crispy BOTAFOT#2,ITJWTFO#6,UKRMRM#1/13a,MCT#1,DFV#2,SKoGA#0 (and KotL) BotToS#5,SBS#25,IbW#34, TEAR#3 (and KotL), DS#5, COSOC#9, KotTFSTR# The speccy Geordie twat.
Hmm, my mum's old Audi 80 (non Quattro) did that years ago. Whole front end went up in flames. Turned out it was a perished washer on the inlet manifold. This, over time, allowed small quantities of oil to collect on the manifold itself, which obviously got very hot one day and ignited.
Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Salad Dodger <Applause> -- Nigel - Manufacturer of the "Champion-105" range of rearsets WS* GHPOTHUF#24 APOSTLE#14 DLC#1 COFF#20 BOTAFOT#150 HYPO#0(KoTL) IbW#41 ZZR1100, Enfield 500 Curry House Racer "The Basmati Rice Burner", Honda GL1000K2 (On its hols) Kawasaki ZN1300 Voyager "Oh, Oh, It's so big"
