I broke down again!! Thanks to all who helped out :-)

[Chris]

I'd been having problems with the Mex for a bit, with a missfire and thought all was sorted - that was until driving in heavy traffic through Harrogate on Friday night on the way to RS_Fiesta's over in Burnley the coil cooked up and thanks to several people off here who helped out, numerous offers of a replacement coil were avaliable at Heaves on Sat morning. Sat morning & replacement coil fitted - I thought all was now well!!!!
Alas it wasn't, same driving style as last year (like a Kangaroo on speed) although even worse this year it played up right from the start ramp at heaves, we limped upto the BP petrol station 1.7 miles away at about 30mph and after all the (gratefully recieved!) help from everyone - you know who you are!! I thought the problem might have been cured, with the loan of a new dizzy cap (cheers nelly!) and Rodders having a tinker about with the ignition.
Well it didn't get any better and aftter leaving my petrol filler cap at services near the M6 (could things get any worse!!) Matt suggested stopping off at Nobles garage, and after Marcus Noble of rallying fame tried another new coil and played about with ignition - rotor arm etc. etc. he told me it was carbs playing up. Screwed the fuel mixture round couple of notches and said try that - well away we went, I was like a dog with two dicks and headed upto heartside cafe in record time! Never managed to catch up with rest of notts crew, who my mate (RS_Fiesta's twin-bro) Paul was with navigating for Greg Lee, but had great time once the car was running sweet again.

Next year the Mex WILL NOT BREAKDOWN!!!!!!! :cool: :cool: :cool:

Cheers for the help again everyone :occasion5: :occasion5: :occasion5:

Chris

[RS_Fiesta]

Carb not carbs!!!!Think your better off with twin 40s next year then;)

[Tim]

glad to hear its finally sorted,your have to bring it down here in the summer :rolleyes:

[Chris]

Carb not carbs!!!!Think your better off with twin 40s next year then;)

we did have that conversation on several occasions,we'll see ;) :D :D :D

glad to hear its finally sorted,your have to bring it down here in the summer :rolleyes:

you never know mate ;)

[topaz]

good to see you make it to the highest pub in britain ;) well done for winning the awesome picture :D

[graham John]

well done chris, sounds like an eventfull lakes for you


cheeRS

[hotrs2000]

Great following you again, your car flew once it was fixed. Just glad I was in front when the Police stopped us all for a chat:)

Nice to see the people to blame for the problem didn't own up:mad:

[Dave1800BDA]

bad luck for you chris, glad you got it sorted fella and could continue

[191964]

Once sorted you were flying chris ,that mex goes very well was only just keeping up :D

[Frosticles]

Glad it all turned out good in the end for you mate.:) Get the 40's on for next year and all will be well son. The painting is here at my house and looks superb next to my other one. ;) :D

[gazd]

;) hung back for a bit thought you were ok, i shot off to catch the others,glad you made it, mine fell apart on the way home:(

[RS2K]

Glad you made it chris. I kept getting updates on where you were on the tour through Paul. At the end you weren't that far behind.:D

[Chris]

Glad it all turned out good in the end for you mate.:) Get the 40's on for next year and all will be well son. The painting is here at my house and looks superb next to my other one. ;) :D

cheers matey, will be planning the possible installation of these 40s soon :D

Glad you made it chris. I kept getting updates on where you were on the tour through Paul. At the end you weren't that far behind.:D

Yep, we weren't hanging around - didn't manage to catch up in the end but won't be repeating the breakdown on next year's tour, that's two years on the trot now, think Matt regretted putting his username off here on the back window when we kept breaking down again :hahaha: