She's baaaaaaccckkkkk

[CatmanV2]

Had some fun on the way back from Chelmsford with (I think) a BMW on the Hastingwood roundabout. 70 in a 40 is not necessarily sensible, but we had fun, and it was only for about 45 seconds away from the lights.

C

 

[dem maser]

Plod could be on here....haha

 

[CatmanV2]

Plod could be on here....haha

That would be fun

C

 

[Chrisbassett]

Happy to say Doris is back on the road, just a shame it's the M6 rolling carpark. Apparently the gearbox solenoids were trying to operate in an incorrect order, failing and blowing the fuse.

They were "unconfused" by judicious use of a big enough hammer (ok, a software update and re-programming) and she's remembered how to be sequential again.

Front suspension drop-links also replaced in an unrelated incident.

 

[Parisien]

.....a one off unique failing Chris.........great the Autoshield got to the bottom of it....but did it show up on the SD kit or just brilliant diagnostician/deduction work?

 

[Chrisbassett]

No SD errors at all.

 

[Parisien]

.....so who decided to get mallet out and thump solenoids?!

Its a bit gobsmacking that it was the only way to "correct" a possible undiagnosable problem

P

 

[CatmanV2]

Good news, Chris!

C

 

[ENZ525]

Excellent news Chris

 

[dem maser]

Great work those manchester boys......good one

 

[BennyD]

.....so who decided to get mallet out and thump solenoids?!

My money would be on Russell!!

 

[Parisien]

My money would be on Russell!!

........same here....I've seen his tool kit.......two lump hammers, small crowbar and bluetack............as used by JC himself





P

 

[BennyD]

He's improving. The last I knew he only had one f*ck off big hammer and a bad attitude!

 

[dem maser]

Hammer is all you need haha

 

[hodroyd]

Funny I thought it could be something like that, but never heard of it before. I have seen russell's big hammer, it's frightening when he's thumping **** out of the underside of a car, but it all works and does the job..!!

 

[philw696]

Trust me guys I've been a motor engineer for over 30 years and my hammer collection is very important and used daily. Its knowing how to use them that's important.

 

[CatmanV2]

Trust me guys I've been a motor engineer for over 30 years and my hammer collection is very important and used daily. Its knowing how to use them that's important.

Percussive maintenance.

C

 

[Felonious Crud]

Great news, Chris! Glad Doris is on the roll again.

 

[BennyD]

Trust me guys I've been a motor engineer for over 30 years and my hammer collection is very important and used daily. Its knowing how to use them that's important.

I think Russell took hammer lessons from Peter Sutcliffe.

 

[2b1ask1]

..........!!!!