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what a weekend
denviks:
it all started so well..... a night run with plcuk on salisbury plains on saturday night. all was going well until we hit the tarmac to head for home..... 4th gear just below 3000rpm and just about to snatch 5th gear and...................
red lights on dash come on fast.....no power and engine dies....this is at 1am,
so coast over to the side of the A303. a quick inspection and we found that the cambelt had let go :? :oops: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: ...
so mule ( thanks mate ) pulled me down to the services as it was safer there than on the side of the a303. at 5 am the recovery truck dropped the disco around the corner as he couldnt get it down my road......it sat there all day yesterday looking very sad.....
last night i put a few bids in on discoveries....well i won one :shock: i will be off to collect an 1994 v8 efi discovery auto soon with any luck. its been proper rollar coster weekend i can tell you. i am going to pop the cover off the 200di at the weekend and have a proper look inside.....fingers crossed its not terminal
here's the new toy/ beast .....now got to think of a name
Lyndsey731:
Sorry to hear that Denviks!
Popped the cambelt on my 200 and all it did was bend 4 push rods, so fingers crossed and good luck.
Gav
Yoshi:
Still waiting for my cambelt to get done, so dont know the extent of the damage!
The v8i looks nice enough though :D
TDi90:
funny that all this cambelt business.
last night driving about 6pm listening to the F1 on 5 live, just going up the A3 and pop, lost all power in the poooosat (this car done 145K) i knew exactly what happend... cambelt. i rings up the AA tell them what happend tell them to bring a recovery truck cos its not repairable... anyway, the police then stopped by th side of the road, and made a rolling road block while the cop recovered me to the nearest lay by...
anyway.... the engine has gone to see how much damage has happend... (wa going 75mph :shock: :shock: :shock: ) i fear a lot!
Rob
Skibum346:
Commiserations to you and everyone 3else who had a disasterous weekend...
Must be the Rugby/F1 luck ripples rolling over us all!
Skibum
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