The Low Loader Thread

[minardirule]

Certainly do having been one for 45 years and still on the tools.
Certainly prefer working on Classics to anything Modern especially the current offerings out there.
I'm sure you'll be in good hands

Yes realise you were a mechanic from other posts on here, hence the comment! I read a lot more than I post.

 

[minardirule]

rad hoses are fairly easy to get to, changed mine to silicone ones and a stainless steel connection pipe as the normal steel ones do go rusty and pin hole eventually

It would be easy if it was at the front, I'm told it's in the middle of the V somewhere.

I think it's the only one in the country in the colour, which was used in a lot of the launch material for the facelift.

 

[lifes2short]

I'm told it's in the middle of the V somewhere.

that's a bugger, must be something to do with water cooled turbo pipework ?

 

[Alan Surrey]

Sorry to see your trouble. Hope it turns out to be an easy fix rather than something hidden in the Vee.
Car looks lovely, by the way. You've clearly been looking after it.
Funnily (!) enough my QP did the same trick earlier this year, loosing all its coolant and the cause proved to be a fairly readily accessible main hose.
I hope your air con is good, because no sooner was my hose fixed than the air con failed - wrecked condenser (which looks a lot like a radiator.) So two trips to SportsItalia.
Interestingly last autumn the car had a head to head with a pheasant and I never did find out where it went, but both my failed items were were it might have passed through.....

 

[philw696]

 

[DLax69]

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We're gonna need a longer extension cord...

 

[midlifecrisis]

We're gonna need a longer extension cord...

Or a diesel generator to charge these up....

maybe a mobile one...

maybe one fitted in the vehicle itself...

maybe a diesel generator that can move the vehicle directly....

 

[Ewan]

Another entry to the thread of shame.
This time in the QP IV - broken alternator.

 

[PaulCambio]

Sadly mine is dead. Closed the A27 last week just outside Arundel.

 

[Bebs]

Rear ended by the looks of it.. so sorry to hear that

 

[philw696]

That's very sad to see.

 

[Oneball]

Sadly mine is dead. Closed the A27 last week just outside Arundel.

Smeg that’s unfortunate, get the plate off it and on retention before it’s written off or you’ll loose ownership.

 

[Scaf]

So sorry to see this, hope everyone was ok.

 

[lozcb]

Gutted for you mate , lets hope the claim is trouble free and you come out on the right side of things

 

[Felonious Crud]

Sadly mine is dead. Closed the A27 last week just outside Arundel.

Noooo, no, no, no. What a sad sight but I hope no one was hurt in the bolloxing of that poor car.

 

[PaulCambio]

Smeg that’s unfortunate, get the plate off it and on retention before it’s written off or you’ll loose ownership.

Already done. Luckily Matt popped round and told me how it all works.

 

[dickygrace]

Sorry sight, hope you’re free from injuries and you get paid quickly to move on.

 

[lozcb]

Ive been lucky up until now that ive never had a car written off (Fault or non Fault ) but if I ever do I'll use the AA and get the vehicle dropped off at my house first where i have access to it before the insurance company sets their preferred vultures on it ( usually Copart ) too many people lose personal effects / personal plates as Oneball was saying . Plus it gives you the chance to swap/remove any of the upgrade bits you may well of added , like larini exhaust / carbon bits etc all those bits can help reimburse your losses

 

[safrane]

Sorry sight, hope you’re free from injuries and you get paid quickly to move on.

To... one of Richard's lovely Strads... I would have the red one!

And sorry to see the loss of your car.

 

[Zep]

Sorry for your troubles, hope you weren’t injured.