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Went to the Club Peugeot annual bash on Sunday. As it was past Guilford and I'm in Cirencester my wife suggested that this might be too strenuous a journy for the ZS and I should take the golf.
Seeing sense, I did. Did the golf get me there. Did it bu**er. 2 miles from the pub I lost all gears as the gear linkage dodad snapped!
Managed to find 3rd and crawl into pub car park to hoots of Peugeot driving derision.
Waited over 3 hours for the RAC to turn up. In the end one of the club members lashed the gear selectors toegther with...a cable tie (yay!)
Car is now at the garage in Ciren being fixed. Next time I'm going retro!
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This space available to rent. Reach literally dozens of people. Cheap rates!
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always take the old one, far more reliable i always think.
i get ribbed at work for having "old knackered cars",but I'm the only one whos never broken down in the carpark.and who do you think they come looking for to try to fix them?
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I posted this when it happened but ages ago a relative of mine driving a year old Vauxhall Zafira called me to say that the car wasn't working right and had smoke pouring through the air con vents and out of the engine bay. So I turn up in the Imp and have a look, stopping just in front of the Zafira. The clutch was knackered more or less but we got it home in the end, with me following closely in the Imp in case it went pear shaped, the smoke turned out to be nearly obliterated clutch. But anyway, while we were there, people stopped, seeing smoke, and a modern car and an Imp (while I was there I checked my oil and water so the Imp's engine bay was open too) and assumed the Imp was smouldering, the modern car had come to rescue the poor thing, and came to offer some help, some of them dragging out the age old stories of "my brother in law had an Imp, but the engine exploded" or some other curse word they probably saw in a tabloid or on the telly, and it gave me a real kick to tell them that it was actually the modern car that went up in smoke! ;D ;D ;D
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"He's not the messiah, he's a very naughty boy!"
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years ago I ran a Wolseley 16/60...... went to pick the OH from work one day...... flat battery, so out came the starting handle and away she went.... (the car, not the OH... ) ;D ;D Try doing that with a Focus.....  |
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... the only injury I sustained was a bumped head when I let the seatbelt of without realizing the car was upside down  and that's not really the car's fault. |
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and that's not really the car's fault.