HELP...HIVE MIND....
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kalidarkone
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If I drive around the car park and it honestly feels no different to usual.....should I just go?
kalidarkone
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Should I try to jiggle them- see if they are loose?
weltweit
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Can't hurt.
If you grip them left and right (rear wheels no?) and push / pull there shouldn't be any movement..
weltweit
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Thing is they have weight on them, best is to jack them up then check for loseness ..
kalidarkone
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newme
Giant in Pastyland now
It definitely looks unpressured in the usual amount if not flat. Whats the countdown on them arriving?
weltweit
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I am assuming that is front wheel drive, which means there is less to go wrong on the rear axles.
suspension, tyres, brakes. A sticking brake caliper could have caused smoke which could have been something another motorist might have spotted. How to check and is it likely, I don't know.
Ax^ what do you think?
kalidarkone
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James from RAC will be here in 10 minutes.
The tyre s definitely needed air. Not much. But still. My bad I meant to do it before leaving and ran out of time. I'm pretty fastidious about it normally.
The tyre s definitely needed air. Not much. But still. My bad I meant to do it before leaving and ran out of time. I'm pretty fastidious about it normally.
newme
Giant in Pastyland now
I walked a motorbike over extremely hilly terrain at 4am at least 6 times. Give yourself a break. I had no fuel, it was the same trip each time and I had reserve tank lol.
Edit one time I took a shortcut and got stuck in marshland
weltweit
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Let us know what James finds, we are all involved now
kalidarkone
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He's jacking it up.
Driver side back rim loose.
Driver side back rim loose.
newme
Giant in Pastyland now
Well thank fuck you did not crash from it
Ax^
Silly Rabbit
looks back at the picture of the tyre
well fuck me your right clearly a lower VW T4
my bad
glad James has arrived to check it out and get ya moving
weltweit
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kalidarkone sounds like it might be a wheel bearing or something, don't quite understand your post about the rim? Hope James can fix it where you are, otherwise it could be a long evening getting your Van to a repairers or home.
kalidarkone
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Thanks for your support, beautiful people.
Turns out it was a loose rim- came off in his hand. By rim just the vanity trim that comes with the alloys.
So back to Bristol xxx
Turns out it was a loose rim- came off in his hand. By rim just the vanity trim that comes with the alloys.
So back to Bristol xxx
May Kasahara
take me to the feeling
Sorry you missed your party kalidarkone but very glad you are safe x
T & P
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This has reminded me of the first time I drove my partner’s car, on my way to Cornwall the night before the famous full solar eclipse. It was a battered Polo and she didn’t have a full licence or saw the car as a precious possession, but I was still mindful about something going wrong, as we’d only been together a few months.
Happily on my way halfway between London and Bristol I started to notice some cars flashing me before the overtook me. Then another one flashed me then started to turn its lights off and back on before accelerating away.
Panicked as fuck, I stopped at the next Services and had a thorough examination of the back of the car, and ran the engine whilst watching for fire or smoke. I couldn’t see anything wrong for love or money, as I was about to climb on the car and resume my journey, I noticed the rear fog light was on
Still, it’s not as if a rear fog light used on a clear night is likely to be so disruptive to other drivers as to pose a risk. I guess at a stretch someone behind me might have misinterpreted it for a brake light, but on a clear motorway with sparse traffic and bearing in mind you’re supposed to keep adequate safe distance from the car in front, one would have to be rather incompetent not to realise a few seconds after sighting it that it’s not a brake light, the car was not braking, and even if it were, the other two lanes were clear and there was no hazard ahead.
Happily on my way halfway between London and Bristol I started to notice some cars flashing me before the overtook me. Then another one flashed me then started to turn its lights off and back on before accelerating away.
Panicked as fuck, I stopped at the next Services and had a thorough examination of the back of the car, and ran the engine whilst watching for fire or smoke. I couldn’t see anything wrong for love or money, as I was about to climb on the car and resume my journey, I noticed the rear fog light was on
Still, it’s not as if a rear fog light used on a clear night is likely to be so disruptive to other drivers as to pose a risk. I guess at a stretch someone behind me might have misinterpreted it for a brake light, but on a clear motorway with sparse traffic and bearing in mind you’re supposed to keep adequate safe distance from the car in front, one would have to be rather incompetent not to realise a few seconds after sighting it that it’s not a brake light, the car was not braking, and even if it were, the other two lanes were clear and there was no hazard ahead.
geminisnake
a complex mass of conflicting ideas
glad you are ok, bummer about the wedding reception 
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Ax^
Silly Rabbit
kalidarkone
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So folks I got home at 23.30 and then drove to a dub night. When I went to leave the battery was flat
Went back to get it this morning and it was just about to be towed.....I had to pay £300 call out. Tried to jump it but it seems there is something wrong other then the battery.
So paid another £100 to be relayed home.
On the bright side- better that this occurred in Bristol rather then in Cornwall..
Went back to get it this morning and it was just about to be towed.....I had to pay £300 call out. Tried to jump it but it seems there is something wrong other then the battery.
So paid another £100 to be relayed home.
On the bright side- better that this occurred in Bristol rather then in Cornwall..
