Lude Generation

Bloody cars. Hate em.

Heading home from work, tube emerges from the tunnel and a text comes through from Lisa saying she's been trying to ring me because the porka's overheated on the way to the gym

Get home, load the lude up with jobby in the dark, reverse off the drive straight into next doors wheely bin that's been left in the road

Get to the gym and the porka's parked at the bottom of the car park in a drokking massive puddle, with the front up against a hedge facing away from any light (only space left apparently)

Hose has split at the thermostat/water pump and dumped all the coolant. Scrabble around lying on the ground, manage to get it cut it down and refitted ok, followed by 20mins bleeding it, all in the rain. Nice.

I go to drive it home with Lisa following in the lude and notice one of the headlights on the lude is out

Give it a look over when I get home and it isn't the bulb ffs...

Hate cars. Gone from 3 to only 1 roadworthy, in one night!

Oh dear, bad day. Scrap the porker, stick to Hondas. This weather is not helping anyone at the mo. water ingress everywhere, I was coming home on M3 south late last night, bloody murder.,

That's why it's always good to have spares!

... Oh how I miss having a spare!

Good effort in the carpark though bud

Your only comfort wurly is in knowing that Friday is going to be a far, far better day. Let's face it, it couldn't get any worse!

that sucks....sounds like you did well to fix the porker in those conditions
+rep

Ta

Was lucky the split was right next to a jubilee clip, so the hose could be cut down and refitted. Would have been screwed otherwise. Just not fun in those conditions! Lisa's swedish PT lady came out and said she was impressed with my 'proper man work, fixing stuff' though

Temperature and cooling system all behaved perfectly normally afterwards, no milk on the oil filler cap or dipstick and after being driven the exhaust looks ok, but it was a bit rattly sounding when cold - hopefully that's just because the oil was cooked and an oil change will sort it. Difficult to know when you're only seeing these things in the dark

hope there's nothing terminal , be good to replace hose in daylight

Sounded fine when I started it up yesterday, but changed the oil anyway because it was about due and took it out for a blast.
Also changed the coolant again (had only filled it with very weak anti-freeze mix when I rescued it).

All seems hunkydory and there was nothing nasty on the magnetic oil drain plug

So Yay - they don't make 'em like that any more!