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Nov 29, 2019 12:27:00 GMT
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Lost the bike keys, bit of a pain as it’s ready for an mot. I had an inkling that I had put them somewhere safe, had everything and everywhere checked and could not find them, started to wonder if I had put them in with the bits from a bike I sold recently. 4 days in Berlin trying to picture where I put them, went to the lockup this morning and started in the first corner, eventually found them inside my umbrella, I had definitely put them there but had not an ounce of recollection doing it. Least I can book an mot now. 😁
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Bicycle x1 Alfa Giulietta (now wife's) Alfa 156 BMW 630i Honda rc36
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ovimor
North East
...It'll be ME!
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Nov 29, 2019 12:38:19 GMT
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I often wonder if those 'coin hoard' finds, as featured in the papers, are somewhat similar OVIMOR
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Knowledge is to know a Tomato is a 'fruit' - Wisdom, on the other hand, is knowing not to put it in a 'fruit salad'!
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gryphon
Club Retro Rides Member
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Club RR Member Number: 157
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Loosing keysgryphon
@gryphon
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Nov 29, 2019 13:06:01 GMT
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Too easily done. I put my mx5 keys inside a spare laptop sleeve in the spare room before I went on holiday... (Project car on axle stands, not in use - and not a place I'll ever use again!)
I'd turned the house and garage upside down twice, broken into the car and costed up a new set of keys and locks all round before I finally found them accidentally 4 weeks later.
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Nov 29, 2019 13:14:53 GMT
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Slightly different, a mate with a bike shop got a big engined Suzuki in, well actually a rolling chassis with a big hole where there should have been an engine, and a box full of stripped engine, because’ theres a jingling noise when you rev it’ Long story short. Mate rebuilt and reinstalled engine, quite right, there was a jingling when it was revved Moral? don't strip the engine if its the keys jingling in the ignition! Apologies if I've told this one before😀
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Nov 29, 2019 17:12:36 GMT
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Never move house when you have a project on the go. I have no idea where numerous bits are. It might take you a while to find things - I simply have no idea where to find the clevis pins for the handbrake. Absolutely None....
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Nov 29, 2019 18:03:04 GMT
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As we are sharing key stories i have this one. About 10 years ago i drive down to vanfest in my vw baywindow camper. I was joined by mates in their vw camper that by this point they had owned for four or five years. On the Sunday they came back to where we were camped with a shiny new set of hub caps and they decided to change them over for the drive home. When they popped the cap off the spare wheel mounted on the front of the van they discovered that the previous owners had stashed a full set of keys there incase they were ever locked out.😀
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Nov 29, 2019 18:14:29 GMT
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As we are sharing key stories i have this one. About 10 years ago i drive down to vanfest in my vw baywindow camper. I was joined by mates in their vw camper that by this point they had owned for four or five years. On the Sunday they came back to where we were camped with a shiny new set of hub caps and they decided to change them over for the drive home. When they popped the cap off the spare wheel mounted on the front of the van they discovered that the previous owners had stashed a full set of keys there incase they were ever locked out.😀 I have to admit to kind of liking this. Not somewhere I would think of looking...
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Nov 29, 2019 19:00:53 GMT
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As we are sharing key stories i have this one. About 10 years ago i drive down to vanfest in my vw baywindow camper. I was joined by mates in their vw camper that by this point they had owned for four or five years. On the Sunday they came back to where we were camped with a shiny new set of hub caps and they decided to change them over for the drive home. When they popped the cap off the spare wheel mounted on the front of the van they discovered that the previous owners had stashed a full set of keys there incase they were ever locked out.😀 Or maybe they had been smoking something. It’s a VW ya see, just sayin
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Nov 30, 2019 21:49:55 GMT
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I work so now and then fairly remote. Like 3 hours drive to the first pub/shop type of thing. All the cars that go out that far have a set of keys hiding somewhere underneath the car. I have always a spare in my wallet or in my tool box.
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Nov 30, 2019 23:27:08 GMT
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I work so now and then fairly remote. Like 3 hours drive to the first pub/shop type of thing. All the cars that go out that far have a set of keys hiding somewhere underneath the car. I have always a spare in my wallet or in my tool box. I had the spares with the main keys.
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Bicycle x1 Alfa Giulietta (now wife's) Alfa 156 BMW 630i Honda rc36
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Not lost keys but wrong keys; 1984: I'd just passed my test and bought an XJ6 which was a comfortable, if not an economic, improvement on my Honda PC50 moped. I was used to carrying umpteen sets of keys on leather fobs as I disliked having a large heavy bunch dangling from the ignition. I clambered into the Jag one night in an unlit car park and drove home, it was only when I arrived home in better lighting that I discovered I'd let myself into and started a 4.2 litre 180+hp saloon with the steering lock key off a 50cc 1.8hp moped.
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I work so now and then fairly remote. Like 3 hours drive to the first pub/shop type of thing. All the cars that go out that far have a set of keys hiding somewhere underneath the car. I have always a spare in my wallet or in my tool box. I would have thought in an area as remote as that you'd just leave the vehicle unlocked with the keys in the ignition.
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I always locked the car. Even in remote places cars get stolen....
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when i was a nipper the lock barrels on our cars would seize up as they were never used! don't think the house was ever locked (unless we were away overnight or longer) until i was about 15! different times indeed.
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'80 s1 924 turbo..hibernating '80 golf gli cabriolet...doing impression of a skip '97 pug 106 commuter...continuing cheapness making me smile!
firm believer in the k.i.s.s and f.i.s.h principles.
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I used to store my 74 Beetle at my exes mums house, kept coming back to it unlocked, her little sister had been opening it with the end of a teaspoon to pretend she was driving it
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Last Edit: Dec 3, 2019 15:08:01 GMT by astranaut
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Mrs Pistonppper loses her keys all the time. She'll be tearing the house apart looking for her keys. But I have a spare set hidden so in the end I think I'll just grab the spare set. So I go to where I keep them, and they're gone. I ask Mrs Pistonppper if she knows where the spare set are? She replied that she lost the original set, and we're actually looking for the spare set. Every car she has, this day eventually comes!
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I always locked the car. Even in remote places cars get stolen.... And, not as if you can just shrug and say "never mind, I'll walk home."
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timasorus
Club Retro Rides Member
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Club RR Member Number: 90
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Loosing keystimasorus
@timasorus
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I never lost car keys but once at a petrol station i snapped my key in the boot lock, breathed a sigh of relief I had my spare with me....... snapped the spare in the ignition after fuelling up 🤦♂️🤦♂️
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banditos ahoy!
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PHUQ
Part of things
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Never move house when you have a project on the go. I have no idea where numerous bits are. It might take you a while to find things - I simply have no idea where to find the clevis pins for the handbrake. Absolutely None.... I have that problem. I've solved it buy buying another car. Not specifically for the handbrake clevis pins I feel I should point out.
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Not lost keys but wrong keys; 1984: I'd just passed my test and bought an XJ6 which was a comfortable, if not an economic, improvement on my Honda PC50 moped. I was used to carrying umpteen sets of keys on leather fobs as I disliked having a large heavy bunch dangling from the ignition. I clambered into the Jag one night in an unlit car park and drove home, it was only when I arrived home in better lighting that I discovered I'd let myself into and started a 4.2 litre 180+hp saloon with the steering lock key off a 50cc 1.8hp moped. For triple bonus points it wasn't your jag you drove home?
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Some 9000's, a 900, an RX8 & a beetle
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