Adam-D
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Registered: 11th May 02
Location: Cheshire
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blew a driveshaft and diff.../ gearbox
on the way to pvs. 110 mile from home.
diff was already going/gone i didnt know.
so the whole lot self destructed.
recovery took my car. gave me a hyundai....
and swapped them backa few days later.
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Twiggy
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Registered: 15th Oct 04
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quote:
Originally posted by makincorsac
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Originally posted by Twiggy
I used to break down every week when i had the corsa and more recently the vectra 
Best one was at the mersey tunnel!
Put the money in, barrier goes up and car dies and refuses to start!
Had to push the fucker over 4-5 lanes of traffic burning off out the toll booths! Propper scarey!
ive been there aswell everybody burns off from them booths bet that was dodgy as fuck!!! 
Is not the word, people in the booths did fuck all aswell!
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Twiggy
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Registered: 15th Oct 04
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Bank account break down is shit as only covers 10miles  which is like a choc fire gard!
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Fro
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Registered: 20th Jun 06
Location: Rainham, Essex Drives: A3 2.0TDi Sport
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Only cars that gave me trouble were the corsa and the anni, AA or dad sorted me out with those as he has trucks etc.
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LeeM
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Registered: 26th Sep 05
Location: Liverpool
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i ran out of fuel in my corsa b 5 years ago but my guage was still showing fuel in the tank.
killed a clutch on my vts and lost all drive so had to get towed home.
both of these were on the same road less than a mile from my house
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Gary
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Registered: 22nd Nov 06
Location: West Yorkshire
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Never bothered with breakdown cover.
Have plenty of mates with trailers etc so no need.
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RichR
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Registered: 17th Oct 01
Location: Waterhouses, Staffordshire
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I've broke down three times iirc which isn't bad considering I do 30k+ a year.
First time, ran out of fuel 1mile from home; the needle used to stick on hot days. Easy fix and a free can of petrol out of my Dad 
Second time, rotor arm sheared off the dizzy, broke down at the traffic lights in the middle of Southampton, managed to push it out of the way - waited 3hours for breakdown to turn up which would have been a shitter had I not broken down outside Dominos. Anyhow, I got fed up waiting, kept trying to turn the car over, eventually it fired into life and I drove 200miles home. To this day I don't understand how with no rotor arm on
Last time was a couple of weeks ago when my clutch gave up on the A43, 100ish miles from home 
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Jambo
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Registered: 8th Sep 01
Location: Maidenhead, Drives: VXR Arctic
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Broken down twice (Corsa/Calibra) and ran out of fuel once too.
Corsa broke down at 1am on M25 by M23 turn off. Was Feb only a light jacket and no power for heat. No AA membership either. So they stung my credit card £100 odd and came and fixed the issue. The Police came and towed me under a bridge with huge concrete buttresses so we where allowed back into the car to keep warm they where very nice.
Turned out it was my new mfd causing the electrics to err stop. Removed and bam. Works fine. Didn't get in till 4:30 odd tired and cold.
Calibra broke down at home, me and my mate fixed it.
Ran out of fuel infront of trade sales in Slough. Blocking 1 lane no body helped my move car out of road. Just beeped at me. Which I don't really understand as I would never beep at someone who had broken down?!
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