Putting a jinx on it...
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So there I was driving down from Cambridge to London last night, and as I threaded through London traffic I remarked to my passenger that I was very lucky to have such a smooth idling, tractable, snatch-free engine and drivetrain. London traffic was hardly a chore.
Naturally, on the way _out_ of london, the thing ran rough as a badger's @$$, which puzzled me. I thought, maybe, it'd settle down once it had a chance to clear its throat on the M11. Not so. Investigation revealed nothing more than an HT lead that had become detached, seemingly held on by little more than willpower anyway.
Hardly major, but clearly and uncontravertibly a jinx, placed on the car earlier by myself. Which set me wondering... what did you all say about your (or someone else's car) and as a result, how spectacularly wrong did it go?
>>> Edited by Marshy on Saturday 24th November 13:25
Naturally, on the way _out_ of london, the thing ran rough as a badger's @$$, which puzzled me. I thought, maybe, it'd settle down once it had a chance to clear its throat on the M11. Not so. Investigation revealed nothing more than an HT lead that had become detached, seemingly held on by little more than willpower anyway.
Hardly major, but clearly and uncontravertibly a jinx, placed on the car earlier by myself. Which set me wondering... what did you all say about your (or someone else's car) and as a result, how spectacularly wrong did it go?
>>> Edited by Marshy on Saturday 24th November 13:25
The windscreen of my '69 Corvette started steaming up with the roof down on a nice spring day........then after 10 miles clouds of steam erupted from all my air vents. Diagnosis - heater matrix failure. Turns out that one of the two brass (oh yes) pipes for inlet and outlet to it had previously broken off and some bodger had jammed in a bit of copper pipe a la plumber and soldered it badly in place.
I found out that the matrix had failed before soon before I brought the car and that the Corvette specialist had 'replaced' it with a new matrix.......andI had the bill to prove. They charged the previous owner 8 hours labour (it took me 4 to replace it) and £125 plus VAT for a new one which they didn't even fit.
Out-bloody-rageous. There are two vintage Corvette specialists out there and one is good - the other is a bandit.........
I found out that the matrix had failed before soon before I brought the car and that the Corvette specialist had 'replaced' it with a new matrix.......andI had the bill to prove. They charged the previous owner 8 hours labour (it took me 4 to replace it) and £125 plus VAT for a new one which they didn't even fit.
Out-bloody-rageous. There are two vintage Corvette specialists out there and one is good - the other is a bandit.........
Dave H, almost the same story but in a home-made Dutton Phaeton. Passing admirer blagged a spin as the passenger and 100 metres down the road an enormous backfire shook the car so much that the capacitor lead broke off in the distributor. Took me a day to figure out why it would not fire.
Had a gang of blokes working for me on a project in Bristol. They all begged me to take my Cerbera in one day.
The day I did take it in the clutch went and none of them got to go in it!!
Normally you would expect 10 tatooed workmen to take the piss, but they all stood silent and devastated as the AA took the car away, they had all been promised a go and were gutted!!!
The day I did take it in the clutch went and none of them got to go in it!!
Normally you would expect 10 tatooed workmen to take the piss, but they all stood silent and devastated as the AA took the car away, they had all been promised a go and were gutted!!!
Out "playing" in a mates mk2 escort round some narrow country lanes. Suggest we take it easy in case theres a scooby or a tractor coming the other way. We ease off and sure enough round the next bend theres a silly bint in a freelander. Needless to say we bounce off the ugly pig and then off the wall. End result: wrecked suspension, steering, wing of escort = write off
and the tw@ 4x4 demanded a new wheel and tyre. 300 quid for f**ks sake!!! Anyone want a spare freelander alloy and tyre only slightly scratched? Going cheap!
Needless to say we went out for a spin in my car to take his mind of it and ended up gettin a f**kin puncture!
Matt
and the tw@ 4x4 demanded a new wheel and tyre. 300 quid for f**ks sake!!! Anyone want a spare freelander alloy and tyre only slightly scratched? Going cheap! Needless to say we went out for a spin in my car to take his mind of it and ended up gettin a f**kin puncture!
Matt
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