5 Day Scottish Road Trip 19th April 2014

[ozz]

My niggling intermittent misfire got a whole lot worse yesterday evening got home and went to check plugs no 3 plug lead disinigrated! Looks like a bad crimp at plug end the terminal was black. Good job I found it wasn't going to drive again until Saturday morning.

[Guest whiz]

Right Guys what is the ETA for you lot arriving at Falkirk. Also what time we heading off on the Sunday morning so we can be there for the off

Andy

[Guest alfaGTA]

I reckon we will be there for 4pm Andy notwithstanding issues on the road, it is Easter hols mind! Depart Sunday morning around 9am, lunch at Onich as above somewhere....

[Guest whiz]

great stuff Keith are you heading straight to the Falkirk wheel for 4pm if so will meet you there. 9 am is good for Sunday will be over for about 8.30am ready for the off

[Guest alfaGTA]

Not 100% sure about timings for visiting the wheel, alot depends on the 6 hours and 300miles prior to Falkirk to be honest.

[Guest iank]

Good spot!

 

Godda admit when I was out on Sunday every little unexpected noise was followed by "why now?"

 

Paranoia setting in

[speedtripledan]

For no reason at all I decided to check the charging and it was dead! All the wires had spades rather than the proper plug and they all had fallen off, very surprised they hadn't shorted out. Other than all good just got to load the car up.

[speedtripledan]

Going to pm my phone number to you all, in case of any issues.

[ozz]

If I understand the plan the main convoy is meeting Peter2b2002 at Ferrybridge services at 10 am.

 

So I will go straight up the A1 from Newark and meet you all at Ferrybridge at 10.00am on Saturday Morning, (this saves me an hour of travelling across to Woodhall services).

 

If I time it right I might meet the main convoy after the M18 junction.

[Guest alfaGTA]

I have a list of all numbers printed off along with each days waypoints (postcodes, longitude, latitude)to keep everyone on the right road, will distribute at Ferrybridge.

 

No problem Ozz, see you at Ferrybridge.

[Guest ickle]

Is there a sat nav download available of route I could drop into my tom tom ?

[Guest whiz]

the weather is picking up for the run

[ozz]

Are you good at swimming?

 

The route takes some of those cool roads around the lochs too!

 

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I only have the first one! not got THAT paranoid (yet)!

[Guest iank]

the weather is picking up for the run

 

Yep , depending on which forecast you read for Sunday its either

 

a) overcast, cold and 50% chance of rain

cloudy, and 20% chance of rain

c) overcast with sunny spells and 0% chance of rain

 

Who said weather forecasting was an imprecise science?

[Guest whiz]

well i was having kittens the day thinking the car is buggered before the weekend. went out for a wee blast as it was glorious up here today, running round Edinburgh and the car started to overheat. Got it cooled down headed home I noticed that the temp gauge wasn't reading and the fan not kicking in. So took the temp sender out, popped down to see Ickle at the local motor factors try and get a new one. couldn't work out which one it should be. anyway went home to investigate further. Turns out Im a muppet, there is a temp controller for the fan and there was a wire off its terminal shoved it back on after crimping it a bit more, hey presto the fan kicked in the temp gauge does read and the temp sensor that I took out doesn't go the gauge as its a Borden tube type so i was looking at the wrong sensor to start with.

 

BUT ALL IS NOW GOOD bring on the weekend

Edited April 15, 2014 by whiz