I did a johnny...

[FlashCadillac]

Driving home from leeds after picking up the new wheels for the tina...

 

driving along the motorway at about 80 (the spedo said 70 officer.. honastly) and suddernly started to loose power

 

slower and slower it got so i pulled over into the hard shoulder... turned off the engine... started it up again... sat there reving it.... seemd fine, fuel gage read 1/4 of a tank so i set of again fine untill i got up to about 40 and it started getting slower... luckily it was late on and no traffic and managed to get me to my exit and died on the roundabout under the motorway and that was it... wouldnt start again

 

didnt think it was a lack of petrol as i thought i would have just gone all of a suddern and thats it

 

 

But i do have some new wheels for the tina now.... the car just needs a bit of persuasion to get them to fit.... wheres that basball bat

 

called the RAC and they said "someone will be with you in the next 75 mins" Thanks Love!!!! sat there freezing on a bloody roundabout!

 

RAC man came out and sqirted some petrol into the air filter and broooommm.... it was off

 

so hi went off to the petrol station and came back with some gas and it was fine!!!

 

after he had put the petrol in the bloody fuel gage read less petrol than it did when it stopped!!!

 

 

But i do have some new wheels for the tina... the car just needs some persuasion to get them to fit

[Burns]

what wheels did you get dude?

[Mr Sam]

oh dear

 

 

mine seems to drop when you thrash it then when you drive sensibly it jumps back up........our new fangled astra has an LCD screen tellin you how many miles worth of petrol you got......and the fezza can do it with the fuel needle

 

at least its nothing serious

[FlashCadillac]

what wheels did you get dude?

 

7x15 superlites/minilites whatever the difference is

 

im not usually a fan.... but i dont like the steels that were on it and they were cheap.... might get them re finished so i like them more lol

[Slik 50]

our new fangled astra has an LCD screen tellin you how many miles worth of petrol you got

at least its nothing serious

 

I had one of them trip computer things in a mk3 granada. You could start a journey on the motorway, set the cruise controll at 70 with 100 miles showing left in the tank. 50 miles later it would say that you had 110 miles left in the tank

[johnny_h]

Sounds very familiar!

[Stu_B]

My Anglia ran out of petrol on the way the MOT the other day - never trust old fuel guages!!

[sab6024]

our new fangled astra has an LCD screen tellin you how many miles worth of petrol you got

at least its nothing serious

 

I had one of them trip computer things in a mk3 granada. You could start a journey on the motorway, set the cruise controll at 70 with 100 miles showing left in the tank. 50 miles later it would say that you had 110 miles left in the tank

 

My dad's Granny is the same. Never trust the thing myself

[Burns]

mine's pretty accurate, except when full it shows 3/4 and it has to go way below the red before she runs out of petrol

[Copey]

mine's pretty accurate, except when full it shows 3/4 and it has to go way below the red before she runs out of petrol

 

same as mine that is!!

[FlashCadillac]

i suppose i had to do it once to find out the gage is wrong....i could have chosen a warmer night though