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In the car I shredded a tyre on the M40 at High Wycombe today. Well I thought I may as well see how long it would take for Volvo Assistance to come and fix it, 25 mins in fact from call to driving off. Impressive:cool::cool: I wasn't dressed to change a wheel and not right next to 80mph traffic:reaper:
Stood by the motorway watching all these cretins driving nose to ass at 80 - 90mph. In the car you can't see how impossible it would be to stop in that distance... stood by the motorway it looked suicidal.
Oh and we persuaded the law firm we saw to hire us for consultancy advice:p
So You are one of those Non-men that get someone else to change a tyre!!!
Ed, I'm ashamed to know you! ;-)
Put a kit in the car so you can clean your hands (you can get swarfega wipes and a bottle of water)and a set of overalls... and rejoin the sex with testosterone!
and PLEASE tell me you aren't one of those men that pee's in the cubical when there are perfectly good urinals free!!
:)
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You only need a pair of disposable gloves ,possibly a paper overall if your really awkward .screwx fix sell them.
Ps my wife changes her tyre even when we had a 4x4...
Well done Ed...it would appear congrats are in order.:drink:
Bluefish
08-10-11, 08:12 AM
Do cars get punctures?, oh yeah i remember, i had one about 15 years ago, ED fail on the puncture :smt077, but well done with the new contract =D>
Electro
08-10-11, 08:47 AM
Can appreciate it if you are suited up. Still not good Ed lol. Well done on the consultancy contract. :)
andrewsmith
08-10-11, 09:57 AM
Well done on the contract
Can concede not doing it suited and booted.
You only need a pair of disposable gloves ,possibly a paper overall if your really awkward .screwx fix sell them.
Ps my wife changes her tyre even when we had a 4x4...
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Well done on the contract
Can concede not doing it suited and booted.
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She was in her leggings hi heels if that makes you feel any less worthy.
Oh and had strechy laxetex gloves on to keep her nails clean.
She rang my mobi and by the time i got ther she had the old wheel off and spare out the boot.
i just took the punctured one to work and fixed it !
And she can cook too.:D
Sir Trev
08-10-11, 04:14 PM
...at High Wycombe today.
And you didn't call in for a cuppa???
Well done on the contract win of course.
Suited, best shirt etc. I can change a wheel perfectly well!!! - but much easier for Volvo to do it with a hydraulic jack:smt045
And no Carl I p*ss standing up, and I don't care who sees me no I don't use the bloody cubicle!!!! But yes I do wash my hands, now there's a thought, at Warwick Services about half the bog users did not!!!! Ewwwwww!!!!! Disgusting!!!!!!
V excited about this job, it's an 'ethnic minority' firm. What lovely people they were - and I'm certain that we will get on really well. And, we'd like some work from their friends....
Nearly £200 on a new Michelin (I don't do cheap Chinese stuff) will hurt a bit. Trev I didn't know you were any place near, else I'd have asked for cake too:D
johnmaciver32
08-10-11, 08:39 PM
I got so annoyed changing flats, on works discovery 4, that after the 4th in 2 months, i would call landrover assist or RAC..managed to need 12 tyres replaced in 17 months...(lots of offroading on pish tracks tearing up the tyres)
For some reason the lease company wouldn't give me better tyres, just kept replacing like for like..
Got new hilux last week with nice chunky tyres....
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Bluefish
08-10-11, 09:45 PM
I got so annoyed changing flats, on works discovery 4, that after the 4th in 2 months, i would call landrover assist or RAC..managed to need 12 tyres replaced in 17 months...(lots of offroading on pish tracks tearing up the tyres)
For some reason the lease company wouldn't give me better tyres, just kept replacing like for like..
Got new hilux last week with nice chunky tyres....
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Bleedin hell, they don't use that many doing stuff like Paris Dakar.
johnmaciver32
08-10-11, 10:15 PM
Did 3 in one go at knapdale comms mast..problem this year was all the rain washed the soft grit from the tracks so its the sharp undercore left.. landowners and comms companies won't maintain the tracks too much in Scotland..only 2 punctures on main road this year in 70k miles.
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People die changing their tyres on motorways thanks to snoozing/drunk lorry drivers.
Good move not being a hero and changing it yourself.
I'd have got the wife out of the car and told her to change the tyre... If I'm doing the technical drving stuff she can do the stationary stuff :0)
Runs and hides from Mrs Richie..............
Please dont tell her I said this... :0)
Use Slime... No punctures... ever. ;-)
-Ralph-
09-10-11, 05:10 AM
Good move not being a hero and changing it yourself.
Jeezo, lets get all the AA men on the Pride of Britain awards ;)
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