Project The return of the broken Saaaaab of many shiters. Ah double bollocks.

[angle]

Ah tits, is it moving at all? It occasionally got stuck on the way up or down, but never refused to move completely...

[Sigmund Fraud]

I presume you know about the manual operation trick ?

 

Fold the rear seat and look for a stubby lever on the offside. Lower that to disengage the electric motor, and lift the tonneau cover by hand. Pull the roof up to the windscreen but don't lock it in place yet. Fold down the rear screen (won't go all the way). Close the tonneau cover and lift the stubby lever to lock it. Then lock the roof to the windscreen.

[The Moog]

Drive faster!

[wuvvum]

This thread is out of date. The collection is from March.

Has somebody been taking evening classes at the Cavcraft School of Humour*?

[Jim Bell]

Has somebody been taking evening classes at the Cavcraft School of Humour*?

He said if I sent him £600 I'd get funny, and a certificate.

[Jim Bell]

I sent him £11.00.

[eddyramrod]

Nice one Craig, I'm glad to see it in good hands again.  Now, what can I swop you for it....?

[wuvvum]

Huggy?

[Flat4]

If I ever leave the maze that is Bristol!

 

 

The car comes with free gifts

 

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Currently done 16 miles and stopped to pull the Ariel up and by a hat.

 

I found Bristol even worse than Glasgow or Edinburgh to drive through, and that's saying something.

 

Good gifts tho - water bottles a little bit necessary to make it move I take it?

 

Good luck, hope you get home safely!

[Craig the Princess]

Bugger

 

 

 

 

 

[shoddybanger]

Oh!

[Flat4]

Oh dear! Sorry, I must have jinxed it!

[BeEP]

And only 20 miles to go..... it certainly exceeded my expectations!

[LostnotFound]

no wonder you got mud all over the engine if you insist on driving it with the bonnet up down the verge....

[Craig the Princess]

I presume you know about the manual operation trick ?

 

Fold the rear seat and look for a stubby lever on the offside. Lower that to disengage the electric motor, and lift the tonneau cover by hand. Pull the roof up to the windscreen but don't lock it in place yet. Fold down the rear screen (won't go all the way). Close the tonneau cover and lift the stubby lever to lock it. Then lock the roof to the windscreen.

Thank you, thank you, thank you. I didn't know about that and am now sitting in the dry. I did manage to break the sun visor but that is because I'm an idiot.

 

So 179 miles in it broke. The head gasket does seem to have gone letting oil into the water (but not back again). As traffic started to pull away from a stop there was a pop as the pressure got to much for one of the coolant hoses. Recovery truck on route for the last 20 miles.

[Jim Bell]

You did bloody well man!

[Craig the Princess]

You did bloody well man!

I'm annoyed with myself, if I'd stopped at the last few petrol stations and released the pressure as I did earlier I'd have made it. Hopefully the hose gave up first and the heat exchanger and head gasket needed doing anyway.

[Craig the Princess]

Drive faster!

Not on the M42, M6 or A14

[Dan_ZTT]

Amazing work. Glad to see this saved.

[Craig the Princess]

 

U wot m8!

[Craig the Princess]

This annoyed me. I told the recovery company it was buggered. The still send out a very nice man in a useless van to tell me it's buggered.

 

 

This resets the 60 minutes clock for recovery.

[Crispian_J_Hotson]

Worse things happen at sea- apparently. 'CHECK EDOIDE'... It's in the boot M9, just pull it out. *Wear gloves.

[wuvvum]

You did bloody well getting a car with a knackered head gasket all the way from Bristol to almost-Norfolk.

 

And yes, I too have never managed to drive in Bristol without getting comprehensively lost.

[bramz7]

I'm going to gloat and say I've never got lost in Bristol in the three times I've driven through. Obviously now I've said that, I'm going to get lost in Basingstoke now or something....

 

Bloody good effort with this! I remember getting a brief lift in it when I did the 405/Saab swap with Eddie and djm and it seemed nice, quite a thunderous V6 IMO.

[Craig the Princess]

How many hands on here has this been though now? Must be close to double figures.

[gadgetgricey]

So glad this has remained in the fold.

Had some great times in that car..

[gadgetgricey]

How many hands on here has this been though now? Must be close to double figures.

 

Gadgetgricey

Moog

 

(Not sure after that)

[wuvvum]

These are a nice motor with a V6 under the bonnet.  I had one - sold it to Barmatt.

[Craig the Princess]

Gadgetgricey

Moog

 

(Not sure after that)

Then me then eddy.

[Craig the Princess]

Now sitting in a nice warm recovery truck.

 

There seems to be a trainee being shown how to do it which is quite interesting.