Hats off to Basil Faulty

10 Aug 2004

I am not the most skilled in car mechanics...electrics is another matter, and i can bodge any job with all sorts of stuff not even designed for the use I find for it. However my putt putt did NOT want to go today. i had the bonnet up, in the pissing it down rain for an hour, got drenched. It did not wanna go. I went inside, came out again twice and still no joy. So, having exahusted all avenues of my capabilities i beat the shit out of it with a piece of string I just happened to have in my pocket ( from another project...I hoard stuff for odd jobs ). The neighbour came out, semi smiled and went in, I think she was dialing AAA for assistance for cruelty to cars, and I just lost it. After I had vented my all on its exterior, I decided, like you do to give it one last shot.....
up the bugger started first time, and purrs so sweet. i have been out 5 times since, and no problems...
lol

BASIL YOU ARE A GOD :lol:

10 Aug 2004

10 Aug 2004

Quote by rocky horror
I am not the most skilled in car mechanics...electrics is another matter, and i can bodge any job with all sorts of stuff not even designed for the use I find for it. However my putt putt did NOT want to go today. i had the bonnet up, in the pissing it down rain for an hour, got drenched. It did not wanna go. I went inside, came out again twice and still no joy. So, having exahusted all avenues of my capabilities i beat the shit out of it with a piece of string I just happened to have in my pocket ( from another project...I hoard stuff for odd jobs ). The neighbour came out, semi smiled and went in, I think she was dialing AAA for assistance for cruelty to cars, and I just lost it. After I had vented my all on its exterior, I decided, like you do to give it one last shot.....
up the bugger started first time, and purrs so sweet. i have been out 5 times since, and no problems...
BASIL YOU ARE A GOD :lol:

Morbius once did this to a car of our that had broken down .. problem was it was in the middle of a heaving supermarket carpark in London redface

I was so embarrassed

10 Aug 2004

OI Calista!!!
:kick:

:smackbottom: :sparring:

10 Aug 2004

Quote by morbiusUK
OI Calista!!!
:kick: :smackbottom: :sparring:

What???
It's true though isn't it?
AND you were quite proud of it!!!!!!!

10 Aug 2004

Quote by corriefem
Rocky this is a real question
On my dashboard a picture of a steering wheelor circle keeps flashing up :shock: :shock: It has I think an exclamation mark in the middle of it. So I know its not iol picture but is it something I should worry about???????????????????????

Best place to look is in your handbook as it tells you what all the symbles mean.
However, it could be low power steering fluid. Lift your bonnet and have a peek in your power steering reservoir. If its low, throw some in.
Dave_Notts

10 Aug 2004

Quote by corriefem
Rocky this is a real question
On my dashboard a picture of a steering wheelor circle keeps flashing up :shock: :shock: It has I think an exclamation mark in the middle of it. So I know its not iol picture but is it something I should worry about???????????????????????

Might be you brakes are worn. I'd get it checked out.

10 Aug 2004

rocky horror wrote:

i beat the shit out of it with a piece of string I just happened to have in my pocket..... BASIL YOU ARE A GOD

You weren't by any chance carrying a roast duck or a trifle on the passenger seat, were you?
Mike.

10 Aug 2004

Quote by corriefem
Right will take this more seriously and get it checked out thanks!!!!!!!!!!!!
Love Corriexx

Does it look anything like these:

If it looks like one on the left it is most likely the brakes so you want to get them checked.

10 Aug 2004

I have always wanted to beat a car with a leafy branch!
Once, on returning from a weekend holiday my father found his car had been knicked from the car park at Heathrow. After going wappy at the staff for letting a car leave the car park without a ticket he then went back into the terminal waving his parking ticket maoning about security and to ring the police and report the theft of his new car.
Meanwhile my mother went up a level and found the car in the place he had parked it! :doh: :doh: :doh: :doh: :doh: :doh:
More like a case of the Victor Meldrew's for him!
We never let him forget it! :twisted: :twisted: :twisted:
Fred

10 Aug 2004

:laughabove: Like father like son !! :shock: lol

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