Sometimes Life Makes Me Laugh.....

[FoxtrotGolfXray 5.0]

Kinda car related.....

Pulled out of the local post office yesterday afternoon after picking up a parcel. Next door to the post office is the local Ford dealer, which is on a corner with lights at it. After checking traffic (dual lane, divided road) I pulled out and looked left to see a massive plume of white smoke covering the intersection. It was so thick I could only just see a car stopped at the lights, so I pulled up very slowly behind it, keeping my distance.

As I pulled up, I noticed a salesman from the Ford dealer standing out the front observing the scene.

When the lights changed, I slowly progressed through the lights to finally get a glimpse of the car causing the ruckus. It was pulling over out of the way in front of the servo on the other side of the intersection.

And what was the car causing the smoke screen? A Ford Transit

At least he didn't have far to go to get some expert advice on his situation

Just had to share that....

Craig H

[Alan D Segal]

Originally Posted by psychobimbo

At least he didn't have far to go to get some expert advice on his situation

Just had to share that....

Craig H

Thanks for this Craig H. I for one certainly appreciate you taking the time to share your story with us. Cheers and have a fantastic day.

[Ben73]

Earlier in the year I saw an earily 2000s impreza on fire just after an intersection out the front of a Subaru dealer.
When the fire was out mechanics and salesmen from the Subaru dealer came out and had a look under the bonnet with confused look on their face.

Great image they had that day lol.

[duaned]

For a moment there I was thinking the Transit was throwing a burnout! Obviously I was thinking of the wrong type of burnout.

[peteypete]

I thought it was gonna end up with someone taking a GT-P or F6 for a test drive and ripping a massive burnout coming out of the Ford dealership with the salesman watching. Now THAT would have been funny :P

[Stealth00]

Is that you Craig Harrison?

[janddbone]

My mate lost his idler pulley on his VS right out the front of Holden in Ballarat, rather handy place for it to go! No noises either just fell off!

[Spurious]

In canberra 2007...after a warped head I'd spent $1000 on my XF, shaved head, new radiator, new fan clutch, new water pump, new thermostat, new head gasket ect.

Then the next day after the last part went on it got a quick test drive and then i drove clear across australia to bunbury WA.

4 months later i was driving to the bottle o', gave it some stick around a corner near home and broke an engine mount.

That then allowed the engine to move just far enough for the fan blades to catch that thin steel vertical brace that was on my new radiator.

Ripped it off the rad' and spun it around a few times, smeared it across the rad' face and got wedged behind the air con pump.

It turned my new radiator into a sprinkler.

Turns out the knuckle head that sold the new fan clutch to me gave me an EFI version and not a petrol engine one. I then realised there was only 4 millimetres between fan blades and my now trashed $350 radiator.