Scotty_B
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This is what happened to our hire car in Cyprus. We were driving along the motorway at 65-70mph (speed limit is 65mph) and all of a sudden there was a juddering coming through the steering wheel, so I backed off to about 55mph and then a BANG! the tyre, I thought the suspension had collapsed the car was all over the road. I managed to get the car to the hard shoulder. I was quite realived after seeing that it was the tyre that had exploded and nothing else. So I proceded to take the wheel off and put the spare on, the only problem being that the spare was an old rusty thing from a different car. So we had to drive for about 5 miles along the hard shoulder to a garage.
To add insult to injury, on the way back to the apartment I was pulled for speeding, I was doing a massive 121kmh (70-75ish) the officer let us off as I said that we were going home the next day.
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[Edited on 25-09-2003 by CorSRi_BT]
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vibrio
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remold
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Icy
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y u post the img bit twice for
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Ben
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they dont look after cars abroard! not safe to drive at all!
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MarkM
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same with the mopeds...there death traps!
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madboutcars
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U mite b able to get some money for that copensation.
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MarkM
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why when nothing happened he wasnt injured etc? compo for what...having to change a tyre?
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madboutcars
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quote: Originally posted by sport16v
why when nothing happened he wasnt injured etc? compo for what...having to change a tyre?
yer . Ask for your money back though.
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MarkM
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Not gonna happen I reckon...these things happen...and especially as hes now back at Britain...
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CORSA NUT
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Should have robbed the grill
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MarkM
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quote: Originally posted by CORSA NUT
Should have robbed the grill
LOL at this reply!
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CORSA NUT
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and-m
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your giving us scousers a bad reputation!
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BabyBlade
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Is that the spare underneath?
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CORSA NUT
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quote: Originally posted by and-m
your giving us scousers a bad reputation!
Ok then i would have took my old one out there and got somone to swap it with me
That better?
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Scotty_B
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Car was hired from Avis. Wrote to them when I got back and recieved 1/2 the cost back, which is more than I was expecting
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