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20-02-2009, 11:20 PM
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journey from hell
left broken hill thursday morning at 5am jo hit a kangaroo 100 out of the hill at 115kph the front of the ss looks **** but its still driveable thank god , then 25 k's other side of coonabarbran the mazda spat the water hose from side of head to the inlet near throttle body, by the time i new what was going on she was hot as so pulled over let it cool then fixed hose , filled with water but now it just winds over , i have to pump **** out of the accelerator to get it to start take ages i think its melted the rings on the pistons an i have no compression when i pump the acelerator i think it builds up then combusts making compression , any ways had to then drive 130k's to narabri to get a car trailer then drive all the way back to pick up the car , then we got 10k's outside of narabri on our way to qld and the trailer blow a tyre so then we had to sit on the side of the road waiting for tyre power to put a wheel on the 1 he bought was bald so we then had to go to there depot to get another 1 fitted , we then descovered the front tyre on the left trailer again was egg shape an would be next to blow so then had to change that 1
anyways we are in a motel at warrick and will be at eagleby at 11.30am to collect keys and move in , but top that off the furniture truck got a defect and now will be a couple days late
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21-02-2009, 12:20 AM
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:'( that sucks mate (rod right?) hope everything turns out ok
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21-02-2009, 12:44 AM
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man that is really the trip from hell. hope you get here without more issues
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21-02-2009, 07:54 AM
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did anything go right? lol
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21-02-2009, 08:01 AM
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Holy crap.. Talk about bad luck, hope you get things sorted out
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21-02-2009, 03:00 PM
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back luck mate, hope things start looking up soon.
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21-02-2009, 06:02 PM
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i hope thats the last of the bad luck for a while.
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21-02-2009, 10:59 PM
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Fark, did you kick a black cat or something? Thats just crazy
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22-02-2009, 02:57 AM
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Dang dude.
Hope the rest of the moving in process goes well!! |
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22-02-2009, 10:52 AM
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Man that sucks, hope your stay gets better, but then again....
WELCOME TO TOAD COUNTRY>>>..
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