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OT Can anyone guess what the van did this morning?
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It's a Fiat, so there are many possibilities.
I'll guess that all the wheels fell off, and it sang Nessun Dorma. How close am I?
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Self-Locked all its doors, took its brakes off and ran down a hill?
Owain
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That's what the apprentice would have said to Adam!
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Well it can't be anything *really* bad as you're still alive and posting.
Ran over an apprentice, all by itself, while you weren't even near it?
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Fiat ? ...turned into red dust ? ....
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snapped a cam belt ?
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Well your vans do seem to almost act like living entities and do what they feel at the time. W had an old Austin A40 back when I was a child and if you were in a hurry you just knew the starter would jam in those wornteeth in the flywheel...... Brian
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No that is what Teslas do. Brian
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So our breath is bated then.
I've lost track of what sort of van it is, but in my experience most mechanical things do not like use which is not regular and to the same places or used for the same job. The same thing seems to happen to things like washing machines, vacuum cleaners and garden machinery. Adjust them or get them doing a different task and something usually falls of stops or gets bunged up. Brian
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No. Just dumped 50 litres of diesel on the road.
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Ah. Very, very not nice. On site and dealt with in-house or public place with emergency services attending?
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Between my house and a trip to the shop a quarter of a mile away.
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Has your caltrop-laying friend been at the tank with a screwdriver?
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No but the AA are taking the piss.
Text message from them
"Due to covid19 we ask you to observe social distancing of 2M"
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I had a VW that did that. They failed to properly connct the fuel filter when it was serviced. As ever it was pissing with rain.
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I remember getting a call and rushing out to help sort out my dad's company car many years ago. It'd been in to have the fuel sender replaced, before he went on holiday touring France. He got the car back in the afternoon, hooked up the caravan when he got home and they set off for the port. They got as far as the local garage, started to fill up, and petrol poured everywhere - the mechanics had had the tank out to access the sender and forgotten to re-attach the filler hose! In those days I was thin enough and agile enough to squeeze under and re-attach it without having to jack it up - hence the call to me.
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And sod's law meant it wasn't even raining.
Given the engine management computer power these days I wonder why they don't have a "fuel-consumption-exceeds-maximum-even-for-Sabine-on-the-Nürburgring alarm".
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This topic reminds me of an article by Which, that said some models of cars a couple of years old were more reliable than other makes of new cars.
I think your Fiat is in the 'other' group.
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Were you planning to kiss the AA guy?