Just finished cleaning the westie on Saturday, then took it out for a quick spin...... a word of warning.... make sure your bonnet is clipped down !

Mine flew off at 30mph, luckily there was nobody behind me. Slightly pixxed off as it was brand new. Had to place my order for a new one yesterday from the factory £190

Expensive mistake

Peter.

OOPs!

Nearly did this the other day - fastened one side, not the other. Started flapping as I drove up the road...

David

believe me the air was blue on Saturday

The missus knows to stay out of my way when I'm in one of those moods

Drove mine down to Andover a few weeks ago, touched 105mph at one point on the A303. On arrival at destination guy asked if he could look under the bonnet - didn't need to undo the catches as all 4 were hanging free.......

Now THAT'S what I call lucky.....

You MUST be insured with 'More than' !!

Their must be a solution to this, I think I re-call someone using the catches as electrical contacts, so a light on the dash would tell you the bonnet was not secured...

Any ideas?

cheer up mate at least no-one hurt. worst thing like that, that I witnessed was a chap who landed his Cessna (Twin engined, 1 at back, 1 at rear; three bladed variable pitch props; and retractable tricicle under carriage) on the long runway at Sywell. His aircraft came to a halt after only 20 - 30 yards and he got out screaming, "FFFF"ing and kicking the plane. He was at this time about 3/4 of mile from the club house and we could hear him quite clearly.
The touble was he Forgot to let the wheels down before landing it. Even funnier was that he had only just got the aircraft back from the repairers workshop (like two days) having done exactly the same thing Two months earlier!.

Theres one thing for sure ... I won't do it again unlike the chap with the cessna

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Originally posted by jollygreengiant
cheer up mate at least no-one hurt. worst thing like that, that I witnessed was a chap who landed his Cessna (Twin engined, 1 at back, 1 at rear; three bladed variable pitch props; and retractable tricicle under carriage) on the long runway at Sywell. His aircraft came to a halt after only 20 - 30 yards and he got out screaming, "FFFF"ing and kicking the plane. He was at this time about 3/4 of mile from the club house and we could hear him quite clearly.
The touble was he Forgot to let the wheels down before landing it. Even funnier was that he had only just got the aircraft back from the repairers workshop (like two days) having done exactly the same thing Two months earlier!.

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Originally posted by jollygreengiant
cheer up mate at least no-one hurt. worst thing like that, that I witnessed was a chap who landed his Cessna (Twin engined, 1 at back, 1 at rear; three bladed variable pitch props; and retractable tricicle under carriage) on the long runway at Sywell. His aircraft came to a halt after only 20 - 30 yards and he got out screaming, "FFFF"ing and kicking the plane. He was at this time about 3/4 of mile from the club house and we could hear him quite clearly.
The touble was he Forgot to let the wheels down before landing it. Even funnier was that he had only just got the aircraft back from the repairers workshop (like two days) having done exactly the same thing Two months earlier!.

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Sounds terrible... but very funny!


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