Cars"Here in my car", said 80s pop hero Gary Numan, "I feel safest of all". He obviously never shared the same stretch of road as me, then. Automotive tales of mirth and woe, please.
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 22 Apr 2010, 12:34)
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Citroen ZX Dieselwas coming from South Wales with a Belgian band in the back (long story) for a day out from the studio and the approach into the centre of Bristol is a fairly fast dual carriage way until you reach some traffic lights.
Approaching said lights I apply the breaks and all is fine until the pedal suddenly lunges to the floor and our rate of deceleration is somewhat hampered.
Spying the rear of a very expensive, brand new car becoming imminently unmissable I do the only sensible thing and yank the wheel hard right, over a central dividing pavement and jam it into 1st from 5th.
Cue both front tyres to pop and it bottom out but by the will of god's of fate we came to rest on the forecourt of a tyre and brake centre.
Turns out the rear cylinder had exploded and pissed all the hydraulic fluid out.
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(, Fri 23 Apr 2010, 1:46, 3 replies)
.Tried that too to no avail, turns out when there's no pressure there's no brakes.
(, Fri 23 Apr 2010, 23:43, closed)
CableHandbrake is cable operated on a ZX.
(, Mon 26 Apr 2010, 13:43, closed)
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