Six Cylinders Motoring Notes

[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?

[beko1987]

53 minutes ago, chaseracer said:

Room in the barn, if it rains?

Could all just hop into a vauxhall. Some might even stay dry

[Six-cylinder]

7 minutes ago, beko1987 said:

Could all just hop into a vauxhall. Some might even stay dry

And some might get very wet!

[Tadhg Tiogar]

15 minutes ago, Six-cylinder said:

And some might get very wet!

Sure that should be a candidate for the Fourth Plinth at Trafalgar Square. 

[brownnova]

Pack a coat and some waterproof shoes… it’ll be fine. 
 

(Welsh and therefore used to rain) 

[Ghosty]

50 minutes ago, Tadhg Tiogar said:

Sure that should be a candidate for the Fourth Plinth at Trafalgar Square. 

[chaseracer]

Annoyingly, there's already a Bedford Square, otherwise... 😉

[Crackers]

It's just a bit of rain. Or, for the Scottish contingent, a normal day. 

Let's get on with it! 👍

[hairnet]

2 hours ago, brownnova said:

Pack a coat and some waterproof shoes… it’ll be fine. 
 

(Welsh and therefore used to sheep) 

 

[Ghosty]

The Accord's windscreen leaks. Tomorrow's gonna be fun. 

[HMC]

The 405 remains in the dead car pile behind my local shite friendly garage. I had agreed that they would do it as and when; a call yesterday (I had thought to take the resurrected pug to the FOD) told me that it remains on the treatment waiting list. Nae bother, as the recently acquired 75 can do the leg work.

[AnthonyG]

As @Andyrew once memorably said, Mazda MX5s are water soluble, so will be bringing the Jaguar.

And an umbrella!

See you all tomorrow 

[Snake Charmer]

9 hours ago, AxWomble said:

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...

I found a friends current RAC card in the car he loaned me last week,  member since 1971! 

[beko1987]

Itll probably blow over... 

 

[HMC]

Pass the captain tolleys creeping crack cure!

[Snake Charmer]

Just now, HMC said:

Pass the captain trolleys creeping crack cure!

Ooerr Missus!

[catsinthewelder]

1 hour ago, AnthonyG said:

As @Andyrew once memorably said, Mazda MX5s are water soluble, so will be bringing the Jaguar.

And an umbrella!

See you all tomorrow 

It's unfortunate that the same can be said for 70s Vauxhall's.

See you tomorrow 😜

[brownnova]

Pontiac’s body is made of plastic… it’ll be fine! 

[beko1987]

It'll be fine! (I might stay parked on the hard standing though since I'm not camping...) 

[Ghosty]

See you around midday. 

[Yoss]

 

So there's a 5% chance it won't rain, look on the bright side.

The Triumph hasn't been out since April. The handbrake was almost non existent then so I've adjusted up the back brakes, no self adjusting here, and both hand and foot brake feel much better. So I've just taken it out for £60 worth of Shell V Power and a paper. So I'm sure it'll be fine for a 200 mile round trip. I'll be leaving in about an hour. 

[BL Bloke]

I'll be coming down tomorrow as the weather forecast looks better.