madteg
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| posted on 17/6/07 at 09:22 PM |
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newark disaster
On the way this morning, hit raised manhole cover and smashed bell housing to bits. Mannaged to get lift there, had great day, on return contacted the
AA to pick my car up from paulfs where i had left it. Only to be told because i had hit raised manhole in the road it was not a breakdown so they
would have to charge me £ 150.00 recovery WA-K-RS. BIG THANKS TO PAULF WHO HAD A SPAIR BELL HOUSING IN SHED, so we fitted it on my car so it is now
back on the road, (THANKS AGAIN PAULF).
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graememk
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| posted on 17/6/07 at 09:28 PM |
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my day started bad as well
i pulled out on the main road where my carpet rolled back and made the loud peddle stick flat out leaving me doing some great donuts on the main road,
i came to rest on a very wide keep left in the road after mounting a kurb.
result.....no damage, apart from my pants.
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tom windmill
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| posted on 17/6/07 at 09:42 PM |
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some poor guys Saturday ended badly. Red MK written off in a lay by about 15 miles from Newark! 
Not sure who the guy was i just stopped to make sure all was okay!!
Hope the damage was not too extensive!!
tom
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MkIndy7
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| posted on 17/6/07 at 09:59 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by madteg
On the way this morning, hit raised manhole cover and smashed bell housing to bits. Mannaged to get lift there, had great day, on return contacted the
AA to pick my car up from paulfs where i had left it. Only to be told because i had hit raised manhole in the road it was not a breakdown so they
would have to charge me £ 150.00 recovery WA-K-RS. BIG THANKS TO PAULF WHO HAD A SPAIR BELL HOUSING IN SHED, so we fitted it on my car so it is now
back on the road, (THANKS AGAIN PAULF).
Thats bonkers... think i'd have threatened to ring them every week when I had time with some pathetic problem until my policy was up for
renewal... then gone to another company! 
Or just broke something else on the car to make it required to be recovered ... well the bell housings smashed but its driveable.. it must be
something else
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matt.c
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| posted on 17/6/07 at 10:03 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by graememk
my day started bad as well
i pulled out on the main road where my carpet rolled back and made the loud peddle stick flat out leaving me doing some great donuts on the main road,
i came to rest on a very wide keep left in the road after mounting a kurb.
result.....no damage, apart from my pants.
Yeh thats what you tell us! You did say that you would like some new tires
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graememk
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| posted on 17/6/07 at 10:14 PM |
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if i ment to do it i'd of found a better place than the middle of the A16 lol
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matt.c
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| posted on 17/6/07 at 10:22 PM |
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cough cough! No more woooosh, more like 11500RPM Go on do it! You know you want to!
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jambo
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| posted on 18/6/07 at 12:02 AM |
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newark claimed me aswell,on the way home i got as far as carlisle when the propshaft let go on the m.way very scary got home at 12.30am
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..::Nightfire::..
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| posted on 18/6/07 at 07:21 AM |
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quote:
Thats bonkers... think i'd have threatened to ring them every week when I had time with some pathetic problem until my policy was up for
renewal... then gone to another company!
Unfortunantly that wouldn't work either due to the "Fair Usage" clause. After aout 7 recoveries they threaten to start changing.
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gingerprince
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| posted on 18/6/07 at 08:12 AM |
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I fell at the first too - got about 15 minutes from home and my clutch cable snapped! Didn't have a spare nipple with me so low-loader home it
was 
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snapper
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| posted on 18/6/07 at 10:50 AM |
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Go back and photograph the offending manhole cover then contact the council as it their negligance and just like tripping over a broken paving slab,
you do have recourse in law.
I eat to survive
I drink to forget
I breath to pi55 my ex wife off (and now my ex partner)
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TangoMan
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| posted on 19/6/07 at 11:58 PM |
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I wish I got off that lightly. I was about 30 miles from Le Mans, just outside Alencon, when the engine let go.
I spent over 5 hours waiting for European Breakdown Assist to collect me.
To cut a long( and very painful) story short. I finished the trip to le Mans in a rental car and came home with friends. My Seven is still in a garage
in Alencon waiting to be repatriated. I suspect it may take a few weeks.
Then I need to find out what broke but it sounded very pistonish. I had the cam cover off and it was lower down that that.
Strange though as it sounded half engine speed. Maybe a valve seat has come free!!
Summer's here!!!!
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Guinness
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| posted on 20/6/07 at 06:06 AM |
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Wow guys, sorry to hear about your problems.
Makes me kind of glad I stayed at home and worked
Mike
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40inches
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| posted on 22/6/07 at 08:58 AM |
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quote:
Originally posted by madteg
contacted the AA to pick my car up from paulfs where i had left it. Only to be told because i had hit raised manhole in the road it was not a
breakdown so they would have to charge me £ 150.00 recovery WA-K-RS.
Went with a mate to SVA his Tiger at Nottingham, when he drove onto the
brake test rollers cought his sump plug on steel lip and ripped it off I phoned RAC on my card,they picked up, took us and car back to Sheffield
then me back to Chesterfield, Looks like I chose the correct break down service
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Peteff
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| posted on 22/6/07 at 07:43 PM |
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Was it the bit where they'd skimmed the road topping off on the way in from the Kelham side? Luckily mine cleared them all or I'd have
been in the same boat. Was it a genuine AA man or an agent who recovered you?
yours, Pete
I went into the RSPCA office the other day. It was so small you could hardly swing a cat in there.
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