Event The 205 is dead, LYVE COLLECSHUN FRED - FAIL TO PROCEED

[explosive-cabbage]

  On 22/11/2015 at 01:12, MrDuke said:

As said by everyone else, really glad that you walked away from that relatively unscathed, those pictures do look horrific. And best of luck with finding something equally awesome to replace it with  .

 

However, I'm going to make myself unpopular here and suggest that you were a MASSIVE TWAT for continuing to drive after your screen had iced over, however short the distance was. I agree that the single cone was woefully insufficient as warning, but I suspect that if your vision was unimpeded, you would have at least been able to brake early enough to avoid any roof/tree action. I know it's easy to criticize in hindsight, and by all means tell me to f**k off, but being on a quiet back-road, there was no excuse for not stopping to clear the screen when it froze.

 

 

You are absolutely correct, every word. I am a silly sausage. I passed at least a dozen places where I could have pulled over, but it was fucking cold and I dont have any heater in the 205 so i was waiting for a patch of warm sunlight in order to step out into. Worst excuse ever, dickhead.

 

  On 22/11/2015 at 06:42, KruJoe said:

So are you using the Chez_Kru_Joe family back-up RAV4 now?

 

Or do you want to insure the Pleasure Wagon for a bit and use that, while you get one of the Ladas ready for the road?

 

Its been 24 hours now, ive been up at Chez Cabbage/Krujoe with the parents, trying to relax. Very sore and stiff this morning, every movement is painful.

Back at work at 12, just a 9hr bar shift so nothing strenuous or difficult, and I will take it easy.

 

Im in the RAV4 for a few days while I sort out another car.

[Guest Breadvan72]

  On 21/11/2015 at 20:02, For Fiats Sake said:

Very Lucky/unlucky at the same time!

 

Typical Yorkshire getting back in and driving off though.

 

If it were me I'd be taking some legal advice, that cone was not enough and the road should have been closed and marked as such.

 

Don't be put off, most solicitors will give you a free appointment, I wouldn't bother ringing a tv advertised mob though!

 

I used Ware & Kay in York for an employment matter and they were excellent.

 

 

Don't be so daft!   While I am very glad to hear that E-C escaped with only minor injury, he has no claim against the police.   If he had cleared his windscreen he would have seen the tree.  Compo culture is deplorable and should not be encouraged, and I say that as someone who litigates for a living.

[Six-cylinder]

Dead 205TD!

 

The vultures are circling overhead, how’s the TD engine/gearbox, are you interested in selling it, how about fitting it for me to a non turbo Visa Diesel?

[ruffgeezer]

  On 21/11/2015 at 23:43, sporty-shite said:

Don't suppose you want to bail me out from bringing home the ruffgeezer ZX do you? If you want to pick it up and use it, then I am less likely to be found face down in a pond with a copy of autotrader stuffed up my nose!

EFA, this would be a happy solution though I feel...

[explosive-cabbage]

  On 22/11/2015 at 09:32, Breadvan72 said:

Don't be so daft!   While I am very glad to hear that E-C escaped with only minor injury, he has no claim against the police.   If he had cleared his windscreen he would have seen the tree.  Compo culture is deplorable and should not be encouraged, and I say that as someone who litigates for a living.

 

THIS.

 

Im lucky to escape with my life TBH, and it was my fault.

 

I think I will write a letter to the local highways authority though, they pay massive call out fees for workmen to come out and clear the trees off the road, and at the same time by their inaction they cause the problem in the first place.

 

Ivy grows up and through the tree, adding extra weight to the top of the tree, starving it of nutrients around its base, and denying it sunlight. It may not seem like a big deal but when the wind gets up the Ivy also acts as a big sail, and down comes the tree. Some of the trees I have seen down next to roads recently have massive root balls and look resonably healthy, but the amount of added weight in the top is enormous, it is just simple physics.

I can almost guarantee that 90% of the trees they have to clear off the roads have Ivy growing up through them.

A year or so ago we had some trees in a neighboring plantation (belonging to a local farmer) with the same problem, it was threatening our boundary wall as well as the road. I cut a 12 inch strip around the ivy growth at the bottom of every tree, removing all the stems/trunks, and leaving the rest up to nature. The ivy soon died off and although it looks awful with all the dead ivy up there, the trees looked much healthier 6 months later. The ivy has since been dying off and blowing out in small chunks, and allowing more sunlight through to the ground below, and subsequently onto the road, which dries out the road quicker after a rainfall.

 

It is a win win situation all round for the highways authority, and for the sake of 10 minutes cutting on each tree the road would be much safer, and safe them vast clear-up costs when one blows down.

 

 

Have a look at this tree I hit, imagine the weight of all that ivy, and the effect it has as a sail. You could build a bonfire with all that. I bet there is half a ton up there!

 

 

[trigger]

On the positive side at least your stocked up on fire wood this winter!

[Guest Breadvan72]

Local authorities are forced by central Government to use contractors and they usually choose the cheapest and most minimalist contract.  The authorities are not well funded for preventative maintenance, and there is the additional problem that the trees that stand next to roads are often on private land and not overhanging the road.

[KruJoe]

  On 22/11/2015 at 08:58, JohnK said:

You fancy trying the soft top version of the pleasure wagon on your return ?!

Well, FOAD (creator of the ProtOhNo) did suggest it would lt'd look flipping ace as a pick-up!

 

 

The lines are already there.

[KruJoe]

For all those suggesting there was a single cone protecting the fallen trunk from speeding cabbages, I reckon it only arrived with that police car.

 

 

Otherwise Will would've flattened it instead of (or as well as) his car.

[Guest Breadvan72]

Er, no.  Will says this:

 

"Just the other side of the village whilst squinting through the thin layer of ice I saw a Police cone out in the middle of the road, and drove round it. My immediate thought was that some drunk playing silly-buggers had dumped it there overnight.

 

Next thing I remember was waking up with my head out of the front of the car, my chest on the steering wheel and the front of the roof pushing down into my shoulders."

 

[KruJoe]

I missed that bit. Numpty. Him and me both. At least we know how to crash in style, eh?

 

[Guest Breadvan72]

Isn't that just giffer parking to match the giffermobile?

[red5]

Round by us that is a picture of two cars parked.

[KruJoe]

It took the popo lady a moment to get her head around the fact that I was in charge of both vehicles as the only driver, and had managed to crash them both into each other at the same time.

[Station]

Is EC/KruJoe's dad Rémy Julienne?

[chaseracer]

Looking at the kinked corner, I think this bonnet may well be the one currently on my 205D...

 

 

[Inspector Morose]

Well Will, the BX is here if you want it!

[KruJoe]

There's an offer!

 

Also Will, did you see the message from Chompy of the discounted Xantia? It's white, you like white ones!

 

 

  On 22/11/2015 at 14:50, chaseracer said:

Looking at the kinked corner, I think this bonnet may well be the one currently on my 205D...

 

Could well be, there were so many white ones, it's hard to keep track.

[Slartibartfast]

  On 22/11/2015 at 14:41, KruJoe said:

It took the popo lady a moment to get her head around the fact that I was in charge of both vehicles as the only driver, and had managed to crash them both into each other at the same time.

I'm almost hesitant to ask but were you trying to tow the rover with a soft rope on your own?

[JohnK]

  On 22/11/2015 at 15:26, WolfBuysTerribleCars said:

I'm almost hesitant to ask but were you trying to tow the rover with a soft rope on your own?

A-Frame

[Guest Breadvan72]

That really was the shite hitting the fan, KruJo.  Were you OMG DRFTN YO? 

[KruJoe]

Aye. Eight wheel drift: http://autoshite.com/topic/21257-rover-shennanigans-81115-lancia-loan/page-2

 

 

Re: Rémy Julienne...

 

 

"My foot must have got wedged on the accelerator. Usually I'm a very safe driver."

[Arthur Foxhake]

I believe he is going to acquire my crazy boost 205.

 

 

 

He better pay attention driving that.

[Guest Breadvan72]

Houley Fecque, I missed the Rover ker-runch thread when it happened.  Zoinks, Scoobs!

[KruJoe]

Hey, good work Arthur!

I didn't think I'd ever see him in a more-door!

 

PS-lovely colour.

[trigger]

Now that's sexual!

[Lacquer Peel]

That looks ace. What do you need to do to get big power out of an XUD? Big intercooler, big turbo, more boost, more fuel?

[Louise2cv]

These are such great looking cars! (When not crashed/crushed/etc).

 

One of those that you can't believe came out as early as they did (see Renault 5, pug 205, even the Alpine looks a more 80s shape than 70s.

 

Hope the back/neck is OK Will. I think you are a total plank tbh but I hope you have got away with it, esp in terms of your health

[Arthur Foxhake]

  On 22/11/2015 at 15:58, Lacquer Peel said:

That looks ace. What do you need to do to get big power out of an XUD? Big intercooler, big turbo, more boost, more fuel?

Essentially, yeah, all the above. Manual boost kontroller, grind the boost pin with an angle grinder, shim the governor and wind the fuel in.

Bigger turbos kan take more fuel without the inherent problem XUDs face, smoking  like fuk when tuned/ overfuelled.

I use second hand interkoolers  (sorry keyboard broken) from the skrappy (have you worked out whikh button is broken yet?)

Often from Mondeos or Jags. Many turbos are available for not a lot of money, I have used ones from an Impreza, audi 2.5 V6 TDI, Meredes 220  and have one on the shelf from a Meredes ML270.

Its not a lot of work to weld them to the manifold and sort an exhaust elbow out , kontrolling the VNT ones is a bit more hassle though.

[For Fiats Sake]

  On 22/11/2015 at 09:32, Breadvan72 said:

Don't be so daft!   While I am very glad to hear that E-C escaped with only minor injury, he has no claim against the police.   If he had cleared his windscreen he would have seen the tree.  Compo culture is deplorable and should not be encouraged, and I say that as someone who litigates for a living.

Well it seems a bit shit that plod used a poxy cone and not a road closed sign.

Compo culture surely on exists because of incidents like this.

 

EC is a knob for driving without proper vision, though we were all daft when we were his age weren't we?