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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You can't break a MicraYears ago we took MrsScars Micra round Germany and Belgium, climbing esoteric rock routes. Did about 1500 miles all told.
On the last day the oil light came on. We had just enough money for 5 litres of oil. We poured in a litre. Dry dipstick. Another litre. Dry dipstick. Another, same result. Another, and there was a trace BELOW the Min mark. We poured the last of it in, and it came half way between the MIN MAX lines.
The dry rebuild volume on a Mk 1 Micra is 4.6 litres, so it must have been running completely dry for a long time, as they were no leaks whatever.
20,000 miles later it needed a new oil pump. No other marks at all.
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They are the car equivalent of the T-1000 terminator.They are wasted on the bumbling elderly.
Edit: you found routes to climb in Belgium? I thought they only had one hill and they shared it with Germany and the Netherlands.
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crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Tue 27 Apr 2010, 22:04,
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