Six Cylinders Motoring Notes

[beko1987]

5 hours ago, Slowsilver said:

Scoop! Satin Red Vauxhall comes to the rescue of Satin Red Vauxhall. Not all Vauxhalls are sh*te, just 50%of them!
 

They do look the exact same shade of red in the pics! Are they? You'd probably have to go by the paint code as they'll be faded into completely different colours over their life now... 

[beko1987]

5 hours ago, Ghosty said:

Saturday's going to be interesting for me as it turns out I'll be arriving at the FoD in the Accord. And at some point, I'll be leaving again on a collection mission and returning with a different car. 

But how will you drive 2 cars home after? 

Or is one a vauxhall and your just gonna hide it amongst the others? 

[Six-cylinder]

31 minutes ago, beko1987 said:

They do look the exact same shade of red in the pics! Are they? You'd probably have to go by the paint code as they'll be faded into completely different colours over their life now... 

Yes they are both Satin Red.

[Dave_Q]

Autoaid are good and would cover you and Mrs6C in any vehicle with no age limits for £70 a year or whatever it is now.

They do have a length limit on vehicles which is I think 5.5m (my 5.2m van is within) but their limit on trailers is 10foot.

[wuvvum]

I'm sure I've mentioned this before, but I joined the RAC one year when I ran out of "lives" with the AA.  The one time I needed to use them - when the prop shaft snapped on the BMW 635CSi I had at the time (boy do I wish I still had that now...) - they took 3 1/2 hours to send someone out.  I was on the Norwich ring road at the time so not exactly remote.

I am back with the AA now and am a "gold member" - I've had to call them out a few times recently and they've been great, always getting a patrol to me within the hour, although the one time I needed a ride on a flatbed it took a bit longer.  It's not cheap but in the grand scheme of things it's not a huge amount and I intend to stay with them for as long as they continue to be decent.

[bezzabsa]

suffered with the AA & RAC so now have Green Flag, no complaints what so ever, longest I've had to wait was 45minutes!!!

And By 'eck thats an early Zaffy!!!

[Tadhg Tiogar]

1 hour ago, wuvvum said:

.....I am back with the AA now and am a "gold member" - I've had to call them out a few times recently and they've been great, always getting a patrol to me within the hour, ...

They've had to rescue the CX about five times in the last three years, twice on a flatbed. On the most recent FTP/FTS (the key snapped in the lock), they turned up in 15 minutes, which is something of a record....

Think they're used to it by now. 

[N19]

1 hour ago, Dave_Q said:

Autoaid are good and would cover you and Mrs6C in any vehicle with no age limits for £70 a year or whatever it is now.

They do have a length limit on vehicles which is I think 5.5m (my 5.2m van is within) but their limit on trailers is 10foot.

£59.99 - mine renewed this week. Only used them once - and they were fine then. 

I think the 'any vehicle' as well as lack of age limits makes them appeal to shiters...

[Six-cylinder]

1 minute ago, N19 said:

£59.99 - mine renewed this week. Only used them once - and they were fine then. 

I think the 'any vehicle' as well as lack of age limits makes them appeal to shiters...

Unfortunately the limit of 10 foot trailers excludes Autoaid.

[wuvvum]

The biggest thing the AA ever recovered for me was this rig.

Which was quite big.  A trailer with a Saviem tipper on it sitting on top of a 10-tonne AA tilt'n'slide was quite a sight.

[Ghosty]

2 hours ago, beko1987 said:

But how will you drive 2 cars home after? 

I'm not, it's a swap affair.

[Ghosty]

On the topic of recovery, I'm on my mum's AA membership as the second cardholder. An unintended side effect of being the second cardholder is that the membership card is printed with the policyholder's join date, so I've apparently been in the AA since 1989. 

I was born in 1995! 

[red5]

Satin Red ftw

 

[High Jetter]

25 minutes ago, Ghosty said:

I was born in 1995!

Yer older than you look!

[Floatylight]

Just now, High Jetter said:

Yer older than you look!

10,000 post in 6C's thread!

[High Jetter]

2 minutes ago, Floatylight said:

10,000 post in 6C's thread!

What's my prize?

[Ghosty]

broken xbox m8

[Slowsilver]

3 hours ago, beko1987 said:

They do look the exact same shade of red in the pics! Are they? You'd probably have to go by the paint code as they'll be faded into completely different colours over their life now... 

Oddly enough, unlike the infamous bright red which ages to pogweasel pink, the Satin Red does not seem to suffer at all from fading with age. The Zafira paintwork is the 22 year old original and, although recently expertly refreshed by @Andyrew, I believe that most of the paint on the Carlton is also from the factory.
 

[High Jetter]

If only I could fix em...

[Slowsilver]

2 hours ago, bezzabsa said:

And By 'eck thats an early Zaffy!!!

Indeed it is. The Zafira model was launched in the UK in, I think, March of 1999 and this one was registered in June 1999. It could even be the oldest example left on the road now.
 

[chodweaver]

Took AutoAid's cover a couple of months ago when I CBA arguing with RAC about the cost of the full fat service. Cover for me and Mrs CW was about £65 iirc. Used them for the first time tonight, as it happens.

The pink Corsa decided it wanted a rest from delivery duties, half way through a shift. Fortunately, it decided to throw in the towel outside the shop, so I was able to hop in the boss' (or perhaps it's the boss' wife's) 1 series BMW and finish the shift in that, before having a firtle then deciding to call for help. They told me I was looking at about an hour's wait, but in fact the recovery wagon turned up after about 25 mins, looked at the same things I did and drew the same conclusions: that at 11pm on a Thursday night, an automatic Corsa which had a healthy battery and no warning lights and had been starting without a hiccup since 5pm, suddenly refused to crank, should be taken home and left to think about what it has done: - fixing it could wait till tomorrow.

Poor bloke - he'd been on since 8am this morning and his previous call had been to a right bunch of herberts at services on the M6 with a Citroen Relay tipper that he felt was clearly overweight, possibly by a ton. When they'd phoned it in, they said it was unladen.  Added to this, they had it stacked very high so if he'd got it loaded, he'd have been well over 16'. They refused to sign a waiver that if the recovery rig with the Relay on got pulled for being overweight, they'd pay the recovery guy's fine (2 grand he estimated, based upon looking at their load), so with the backing of his boss, he left them to it. Their loss. My gain.

[Asimo]

15 hours ago, Six-cylinder said:

My RAC renewal is November and I don't want them again.  

Good luck with getting rid of RAC.

I cancelled them last year; they never answer their phone or respond to emails. The only way to do it is cancel any standing payments so they don’t get the money and be very firm when they phone you and nag about payment not received. I had to go beyond firm and get shouty and rude eventually.

[Talbot]

7 hours ago, Ghosty said:

broken xbox m8

AND HERE IT IS!!!

Tent, tools and broken Xbox mate.  What more could you need?

Question:  The weather forecast for this weekend is, frankly, terrible.  Is this still going to go ahead?  I ask, as the forecast for the bank-holiday weekend is loads better... but I am sure just about everyone has other plans for a B/H weekend.

The Carlton breakdown.  I'm not surprised that it overheated after blowing a hose off... that car is a complete arse to bleed properly, hence using water pressure previously.  The non-start is a bugger though.  I wonder if the hose blowing off has knocked a cable somewhere and maybe it's not charging, hence the battery being flat.

[beko1987]

Tomorrow has got a bit fruity hasn't it! 

I'm dropping the children off at my mums tomorrow morning and will be a village or 2 over so was going to come, might keep an eye on this thread now incase it is cancelled... (or pop to the cylinders for a cup of tea then come home instead) 

Sunday looks good and again, I'll be over that way to pick them up... 

[Six-cylinder]

8 hours ago, red5 said:

Satin Red ftw

 

I also had two company Cavaliers in Satin red, I choose them because I like the colour.

[bub2006]

Regards rac, I have to use them with motability. Meant to be high priority due to the nature of the scheme,vulnerable people etc. When the ioniq blew a coolant hose at 11 days old I was left at the side of the road for 5 and a half hours. Regular updates to keep telling me they were behind though. The mini also overheated and I was only a couple miles from home and was told 45 minutes. After 50 minutes I had a text message saying they were now going to be 3 hours. I said to change call-out to my home address and I will get it back slowly. Once I home I was told 9pm,930 came around and I had a phonecall saying they weren't attending after all and it would be in the morning but being a Saturday if the car needed to go into the garage I may struggle for a courtesy car. 

I only use rac for motability as I have to and no one else is allowed to recover car even though I have personal AA cover on the van,trike and anything else I am in. I stopped having rac cover when they towed my old a4 back with a snapped cambelt,pulled unto my cul de sac and performed a u turn with the audi still on the tow pole and smashed in the front bumper. 

 

[AxWomble]

10 hours ago, Ghosty said:

On the topic of recovery, I'm on my mum's AA membership as the second cardholder. An unintended side effect of being the second cardholder is that the membership card is printed with the policyholder's join date, so I've apparently been in the AA since 1989. 

I was born in 1995! 

I have roughly the same with my dad's RAC cover - I've been a member since 1987, exactly ten years before I was born...

[Ghosty]

Ah, yeah. Thunderstorm warning for tomorrow. 

[wuvvum]

Although Sunday now not looking too bad.

It has been a recurring feature of this "summer" to watch a decent long term forecast gradually become blacker and rainier the closer it gets.

[chaseracer]

Room in the barn, if it rains?