'01 Silver - The daily commute smile machine! (Turbo build)

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Topdownman

#225
October 11, 2017, 21:58 Last Edit: January 1, 1970, 01:00 by Guest
Looks like you have produced the first "how not to"!

Hope you manage to find them, presumably they came off the first time you got up to speed as they both came off?

If you have a pushbike, could you retrace the route on that so you have more time to check out the verges etc?
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jvanzyl

#226
October 11, 2017, 22:07 Last Edit: January 1, 1970, 01:00 by Guest
I know where they came off.. Just don't think they'll be recoverable as I'm assuming they'll be broken? But yeah no Tiger seal.. Just tape.
And hopefully the paint is fine!

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#227
October 11, 2017, 22:10 Last Edit: January 1, 1970, 01:00 by Guest
Quote from: "jvanzyl"I know where they came off.. Just don't think they'll be recoverable as I'm assuming they'll be broken? But yeah no Tiger seal.. Just tape.
And hopefully the paint is fine!

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If they've not been run over they might still be salvageable? A bit of carbon wrap or something if they're blemished...


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shnazzle

#228
October 11, 2017, 22:12 Last Edit: January 1, 1970, 01:00 by Guest
Wait! Hold on here. This is it!
The  big moment

... The Pants of Shame are no longer mine!
I felt them slip off, and now firmly covering John's firm bottom
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jvanzyl

#229
October 11, 2017, 22:13 Last Edit: January 1, 1970, 01:00 by Guest
You wish!!!

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Call the midlife!

#230
October 11, 2017, 22:14 Last Edit: January 1, 1970, 01:00 by Guest
Quote from: "shnazzle"Wait! Hold on here. This is it!
The  big moment

... The Pants of Shame are no longer mine!
I felt them slip off, and now firmly covering John's firm bottom
As opposed to the C one scoops...
And it's not at all confusing for me (also a John as you know...)


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jvanzyl

#231
October 12, 2017, 00:23 Last Edit: January 1, 1970, 01:00 by Guest
Well I tried to go back and find them.. saw one out of the corner of my eye on the side of the M25 .. the other is somewhere in the bushes on the on ramp from the M25...  Gutted really as I quite liked the look.
What is it with me and body kit pieces! Bah..

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delhusband

#232
October 12, 2017, 08:06 Last Edit: January 1, 1970, 01:00 by Guest
Sucks. You not going to be able to stop near them to retrieve them?
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jvanzyl

#233
October 12, 2017, 08:09 Last Edit: January 1, 1970, 01:00 by Guest
Well at 1130 last night I really did consider it but I thought on balance it wasn't with the risk!

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lamcote

#234
October 12, 2017, 10:29 Last Edit: January 1, 1970, 01:00 by Guest
Maybe the car is trying to tell you something?
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jvanzyl

#235
October 12, 2017, 10:30 Last Edit: January 1, 1970, 01:00 by Guest
LOL... Yeah possibly...

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#236
October 12, 2017, 10:54 Last Edit: January 1, 1970, 01:00 by Guest
On a more positive note, that soft top beads off really well!


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jvanzyl

#237
October 12, 2017, 11:27 Last Edit: January 1, 1970, 01:00 by Guest
Thanks   :-) :-) :-)

Those side scoops never happened..... Nope...
Nothing was ever there...

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1979scotte

#238
October 12, 2017, 14:59 Last Edit: January 1, 1970, 01:00 by Guest
That's a shame.
Pants of shame that is.

Glad the car is unscathed.
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Topdownman

#239
October 12, 2017, 15:34 Last Edit: January 1, 1970, 01:00 by Guest
Ring the highways agency and tell them where they are and you want them?

Maybe.

(The scoops, obviously, not the pants).
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#240
October 12, 2017, 16:09 Last Edit: January 1, 1970, 01:00 by Guest
Ummmm.... You reckon they'd help get them? I don't want to get my hopes up. And it's honestly my fault... I think it's best to leave the whole episode alone and pretend it never happened!

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Carolyn

#241
October 12, 2017, 16:26 Last Edit: January 1, 1970, 01:00 by Guest
I have to agree.  Mind you I thought they looked good in the photograph.  Went well with the blue roof.   How good they looked in the 'flesh' ??  I had a but of a chuckle when I saw you were putting great big wind-catchers on with double sided stickum.  You might not want to broadcast the fact that you stuck bits onto a car that blew off on the motorway.  Could be a road-worthiness issue...
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Garfy

#242
October 12, 2017, 17:35 Last Edit: January 1, 1970, 01:00 by Guest
Bad news John, knew I should have kept hold of them.
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Topdownman

#243
October 12, 2017, 17:51 Last Edit: January 1, 1970, 01:00 by Guest
Tell the otherstu where they are (for a fee of course!) and tell him its like a new form of geocaching.

I have no idea if the HA would do that for you but if they dont and you try and get them yourself and get hurt that wouldnt be good so they may do it for that reason? Cant be often that someone actually wants something that falls off their car so maybe worth a call or e-mail? (Blame it on the age of the car rather than you of course!).

Been trying to think who it was that was always ringing the "Cones hotline" and just remembered it was Bridget Jones....
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jvanzyl

#244
October 12, 2017, 19:15 Last Edit: January 1, 1970, 01:00 by Guest
Thanks for the support and light hearted abuse... It's what this place is all about!
I must admit that I could feel the differential (or thought I could) without the extra wind resistance, I may have been dragging parachutes but I looked good doing it!!!
Anyway- they're gone now.. Time to focus over other things that are more important and not about making it pretty!

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Smcknighty

#245
October 12, 2017, 20:18 Last Edit: January 1, 1970, 01:00 by Guest
Find someone with a motorbike to get them?


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The Other Stu

#246
October 12, 2017, 22:50 Last Edit: January 1, 1970, 01:00 by Guest
Quote from: "Topdownman"Tell the otherstu where they are (for a fee of course!) and tell him its like a new form of geocaching.

I have no idea if the HA would do that for you but if they dont and you try and get them yourself and get hurt that wouldnt be good so they may do it for that reason? Cant be often that someone actually wants something that falls off their car so maybe worth a call or e-mail? (Blame it on the age of the car rather than you of course!).

Been trying to think who it was that was always ringing the "Cones hotline" and just remembered it was Bridget Jones....
Yeah right
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jvanzyl

#247
October 12, 2017, 23:04 Last Edit: January 1, 1970, 01:00 by Guest
Ok I think we're all agreed that we miss them!

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1979scotte

#248
October 13, 2017, 14:43 Last Edit: January 1, 1970, 01:00 by Guest
Quote from: "jvanzyl"Time to focus over other things that are more important and not about making it pretty!

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This is the correct answer.
Perhaps you don't deserve the pants of shame after all.
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Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.

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mikek

#249
October 13, 2017, 16:49 Last Edit: January 1, 1970, 01:00 by Guest
Quote from: "The Other Stu"
Quote from: "Topdownman"Tell the otherstu where they are (for a fee of course!) and tell him its like a new form of geocaching.

I have no idea if the HA would do that for you but if they dont and you try and get them yourself and get hurt that wouldnt be good so they may do it for that reason? Cant be often that someone actually wants something that falls off their car so maybe worth a call or e-mail? (Blame it on the age of the car rather than you of course!).

Been trying to think who it was that was always ringing the "Cones hotline" and just remembered it was Bridget Jones....
Yeah right


Stu took that picture this morning coz he has already found them!
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