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Dan
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Joined: 28 Jan 2005
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Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2005 4:16 pm

well, there is a +karma up for grabs if you can guess what went wrong with my car today!
Sic Puppy
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Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2005 4:19 pm

You spilt a take-away curry on the carpet, the heater is stuck on "mega-heat" and making the car smell like a tikka masala from a curry house's waste bin?


I WIN!???
Dan
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Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2005 4:42 pm

lol, nope. if you look at my project, you can see its an on going problem(s)
Chris H
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Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2005 12:10 am

you dropped another turd in it?
mals
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Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2005 11:32 am

Waterleak?
Dan
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Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2005 11:49 am

throttle cable, was fun driving it home!
schakal
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Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2005 11:54 am

tie up a piece of long string and pull by hand when needed to take over/speed up Laughing
Dan
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Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2005 12:02 pm

well it was the outer cable that went, so i used a load of masking tape to make a makeshift outer cable, but i had no engine braking!
Chris H
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Posted: Thu Jul 14, 2005 12:52 am

inner on mine went and was stuck on full throttle as few times.

It was at Soneji's, I had to cut the frayed bits away in order to drive the thign the 60 miles home.

there was 3 strands of wire holding it.....
Stig RSC
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Joined: 03 Jul 2005
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Posted: Tue Jul 19, 2005 3:34 am

when mine went on my old valver I rigged up a hand throttle cable with some string and pulled it through the window!, was fun crawling in traffic haha
Dan
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Posted: Tue Jul 19, 2005 10:37 am

lol
huwwatkins
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Posted: Tue Jul 19, 2005 11:45 am

Stig RSC wrote:
when mine went on my old valver I rigged up a hand throttle cable with some string and pulled it through the window!, was fun crawling in traffic haha


I did that with me TD....a spare fleece and some string Smile Snapped about 3 times on the way home though....
Dan
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Posted: Tue Jul 19, 2005 12:50 pm

i was tempted to do a rally style, i sit under the bonnet contoling the throttle whilst mum steers! and do the gears
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