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Title: waiting for Green Flag!
Post by: Andy B on 10 October 2010, 21:23:29
There I was .... on my way home from work after doing a 12 hour shift, Sunday roast was waiting for me to step through the door, about 3 miles to and the charge light came on.  :-? Bugger! Pulled up in a bus stop & opened the bonnet. In the gloom I could just about find the remants of my 'fan belt' ...... bugger bugger!
Started the car and 'parked up' on a near by petrol forecourt & rang for Green Flag. They were going to be a while, so SWMBO came for me so i eat my tea while I wait for local recovery to come out to bring the car back home. In all probablity it'll have cooled down enough for me to chance the short distance back home, but hey ho! it's be the first time I'll have called them!  :y
Title: Re: waiting for Green Flag!
Post by: Elite Pete on 10 October 2010, 21:28:08
You should have given me a call, I could have been there quicker than Green Flag and towed you home ;)
Title: Re: waiting for Green Flag!
Post by: star_whites on 10 October 2010, 21:32:37
I know the feeling but I'm with the RAC. Unfortunatly I lived. Little too far away from home to go home for dinner lol
Title: Re: waiting for Green Flag!
Post by: Elite Pete on 10 October 2010, 21:35:50
You should have used you stockings Andy  ;D
Title: Re: waiting for Green Flag!
Post by: Andy B on 10 October 2010, 21:40:46
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You should have used you stockings Andy  ;D


 ;D  ;D  ;D  ;D they were in the wash!  ;)
Title: Re: waiting for Green Flag!
Post by: Andy B on 10 October 2010, 21:57:19
It's back home on the drive. I'll be on the phone in the morning to Vauxhall parts!  ;)
Title: Re: waiting for Green Flag!
Post by: Kneepad on 13 October 2010, 00:38:32
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There I was .... on my way home from work after doing a 12 hour shift, Sunday roast was waiting for me to step through the door, about 3 miles to and the charge light came on.  :-? Bugger! Pulled up in a bus stop & opened the bonnet. In the gloom I could just about find the remants of my 'fan belt' ...... bugger bugger!
Started the car and 'parked up' on a near by petrol forecourt & rang for Green Flag. They were going to be a while, so SWMBO came for me so i eat my tea while I wait for local recovery to come out to bring the car back home. In all probablity it'll have cooled down enough for me to chance the short distance back home, but hey ho! it's be the first time I'll have called them!  :y

So why did'nt you whip her tights off?  ;D ;D
Title: Re: waiting for Green Flag!
Post by: Marks DTM Calib on 13 October 2010, 07:33:06
SO, what has seized to cause the failure?
Title: Re: waiting for Green Flag!
Post by: Andy B on 13 October 2010, 09:14:37
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SO, what has seized to cause the failure?

All pulleys & tensioner were OK, I did check  :y. The belt wasn't that old, I can only assume that I had it slightly pi$$ed when I replaced it a few months ago after the cam belt change. Perhaps 'playing' on the motor way on my way home from work helped it shread.  ::)
Title: Re: waiting for Green Flag!
Post by: Andy B on 13 October 2010, 09:15:12
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....So why did'nt you whip her tights off?  ;D ;D

My tea was waiting for me  ;D  ;D  ;D