Re: Motorcycle un-recovery... sort of...

chris+news@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (Chris Suslowicz) writes:
Oh Ghod...

The grapefruit's Austin All-aggro and its "interesting" performance
problem. Sudden loss of power for no explicable reason. You'd be
cheerfully doing 70 MPH down the motorway and /gradually/ start
slowing down for no apparent reason, even with the pedal flat to
the floor. This was approaching brown trouser time, as you had
around 30 seconds of forward motion remaining before the engine
stopped altogether, and the hard shoulder was *essential*.

The bloody thing would then refuse to restart for about 10 minutes,
then behave as if nothing had happened. I suspected the fuel
system, but never managed to track it down and eventually fixed
it by phoning the scrapyard and having it taken away and crushed.

Did she by any chance buy this car from Jasper Fforde? This sounds
eerily familiar from the latest book of his that I read...

//Christer
--
| Hagåkersgatan 18C | Phone: Home +46 (0)31 43 52 03 CTH: +46 (0)31 772 5431 |
| S-431 41 Mölndal | Mail: mort@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Cell: +46 (0)707 53 57 57 |
| Sweden | WWW: http://www.cd.chalmers.se/~mort/ |
"An NT server can be run by an idiot, and usually is." -- Tom Holub, a.h.b-o-i
.