The truck driver reckoned that the Corsa shoved him into the Audi and the Audi into me.
All without bending the rear safety bar of the truck. Yeh, right.
Had a look at the car this morning and the exhaust is just blowing, the reverse sensors don't work properly, the towbar looks slightly skewwhiff and the tailgate has a crease in it.
I've asked for the courtesy car to be a Bentley Bentaygo - the new 4x4 they are making and promised to look after it and not do much offroading in it!
I think when the time comes for change, it'll be another Santa Fé too, with another nice petrol engine and LPG at (currently) 50p ish a litre.
A funny thing happened on the way home
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Re: A funny thing happened on the way home
Ouch, glad to hear everyone relatively unharmed. That looks pretty bad. -Eric
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Re: A funny thing happened on the way home
Don't you love truck drivers. A half-ton diddy car pushing a 10 truck forwardAlan H wrote:The truck driver reckoned that the Corsa shoved him into the Audi and the Audi into me.
All without bending the rear safety bar of the truck. Yeh, right.
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Had a look at the car this morning and the exhaust if just blowing, the reverse sensors don't work properly, the towbar looks slightly skewwhiff and the tailgate has a crease in it.
I've asked for the courtesy car to be a Bentley Bentaygo - the new 4x4 they are making and promised to look after it and not do much offroading in it!
I think when the time comes for change, it'll be another Santa Fé too, with another nice petrol engine and LPG at (currently) 50p ish a litre.
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Re: A funny thing happened on the way home
That's not a truck it's a dinky toy!canaletto5 wrote:Don't you love truck drivers. A half-ton diddy car pushing a 10 truck forward
This is a truck
They're rubbish them Jap bikes lad they won't last five minutes! you want to get yourself a nice Royal Enfield!
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Re: A funny thing happened on the way home
Dealt with many similar when I worked for Portasilo up and down the country and abroad.
Tipping tankers and belly feeder types.
Saw a tipper on it's side once due to the driver not looking after his hydraulics at the back as the load came off.
I thought it was funny anyway.
I think the one that hit the Audi was a 20 odd tonner - three axles and laden.
Tipping tankers and belly feeder types.
Saw a tipper on it's side once due to the driver not looking after his hydraulics at the back as the load came off.
I thought it was funny anyway.
I think the one that hit the Audi was a 20 odd tonner - three axles and laden.
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Re: A funny thing happened on the way home
might as well change your car as the mot runs out in march and tax in april
glad nobody was hurt cars can be replaced,John
glad nobody was hurt cars can be replaced,John
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A DVLA stalker !2strokejohnny wrote:might as well change your car as the mot runs out in march and tax in april
glad nobody was hurt cars can be replaced,John
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I usually keep my cars quite a long time and this has only got about 70000 on at the mo'.
Good for another 50000 at least yet!
Good for another 50000 at least yet!
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Re: A funny thing happened on the way home
Good to hear !Alan H wrote:...BUT none of the Suzuki parts in the boot were hurt at all, so not all bad. ...
And also that people weren't injured !
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Re: A funny thing happened on the way home
Alan, mine was a liquid chemical tanker. That particular one is carrying hydrochloric acid and I was delivering it to a power plant in Southern Ireland. It wouldn't be funny if I turned that overAlan H wrote:Dealt with many similar when I worked for Portasilo up and down the country and abroad.
Tipping tankers and belly feeder types.
Saw a tipper on it's side once due to the driver not looking after his hydraulics at the back as the load came off.
I thought it was funny anyway.
I think the one that hit the Audi was a 20 odd tonner - three axles and laden.
They're rubbish them Jap bikes lad they won't last five minutes! you want to get yourself a nice Royal Enfield!
A quote from my old dad
I started out with nothing and I’ve got most of it left!
A quote from my old dad
I started out with nothing and I’ve got most of it left!