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village idiot :D
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PG9 issued - she split a brake pipe at the Test Centre. She's so old the part has to be made, which will take 10 days. She's older than the lad who was operating the wrecker.
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PG9 issued - she split a brake pipe at the Test Centre. She's so old the part has to be made, which will take 10 days. She's older than the lad who was operating the wrecker.
HelsB
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Oh no! I had that happen to me with a relatively newer vehicle...it was horrible!!
Toby_Zaphod
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I would imagine there must be a problem with some other part of the brake system because brake pipes are regularly made up by mechanics & they don't take very long to make at all?
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village idiot :D
I spent all day Wednesday running round the countryside trying to get the part - or get one cobbled up but to no avail. She's 30 years old and the part has been obsoleted - it's a rubber one that goes through a bulkhead and then immediately has a banjo. The steel ones I've had made up and bent to fit myself in the past. Special order!
Incidentally for anyone interested - my breakdown service will pick up an MOT failure. When I checked at renewal whether another popular company would pick up MOT failures firstly the agent had to go and check, having said that they probably would, and then came back with the answer that MOT failures would NOT be picked up. So I stayed with the people I was originally using. And I have to say I have only used them twice in four years but they have been fab.
Incidentally for anyone interested - my breakdown service will pick up an MOT failure. When I checked at renewal whether another popular company would pick up MOT failures firstly the agent had to go and check, having said that they probably would, and then came back with the answer that MOT failures would NOT be picked up. So I stayed with the people I was originally using. And I have to say I have only used them twice in four years but they have been fab.
OWLIE185
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Who covers you for recovery insurance? Always good to know.
In older vehicles the brake pipes where made in imperial gauge pipe but newer ones are now all made in metric gauge pipe.
In older vehicles the brake pipes where made in imperial gauge pipe but newer ones are now all made in metric gauge pipe.
miller
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Snap - ours did exactly the same a week last saturday, luckily our mechanic is next door to the centre!
Our old Bedofrd now has one for some kind of van on it and the prohib is lifted
Our old Bedofrd now has one for some kind of van on it and the prohib is lifted