Hello again!

Hey everyone, sorry I haven't been on the forum for so long! Finally got tinternet at home after the move to Sutton Coldfield so I'm going to make up for my lack of posting by posting A LOT from now on There are lots of minis in Sutton so I'm happy!

It was nice to see some of you at the Rolling Road day on Sat! I'm glad we all got through it in one piece and it was good fun if a bit chilly. On the way to pick up Ed and go back to Sutton today I drove round the Roman Rd roundabout and the tiny squeak from my wheel that you could hear on the rolling rd turned into a clunk and then into a rasping scraping vibrating wheel about to fall off noise. It was horrible and the whole car was shaking and rumbling. So I ended up limping into a layby on the A49 and getting Vinnie recovered on the back of a breakdown truck to Saffrons Cross.

My wheels are currently a sexy white S-reg Fiat Brava with Courtesy Car aka 'My Own Car Is Rubbish' all over it. Hopefully Vin will be fixed soon! I need to make use of his 61.5hp soon!!

Will see some of you at the bowling night soon

Thought i saw you yesturday, you were in the layby just down the hill from lyde.
Was'nt driving the van the time just my honda civic. I thought you had a wheel bearing go
before the last time you visited the rolling road. Perhaps vinnie don't like rolling roads.

That run on the rolling road probably just about finished it off it didnt sound too good saturday

yeh I don't think Vinnie is fond of rolling roads at all. I didn't spot you Nick sorry, did see a blue mini go past that honked at me just as the recovery were hoisting Vin onto the back. I'm just grateful it went in a 30 limit when I was only doing about 20 after the roundabout, rather than on the motorway home!!
Had a call from the garage today and as well as the wheel bearing I'm getting two new tyres and new brake pads. Excellent!

Well that's the trouble with honda's your there one minute an whooosh youre gone the next.

Nick which civic have you got

Just a v reg standard 1.6 se model, you know the rover 400 body.Unfortunatly not a type-r.
I had a rover 216 with the honda engine before I had the honda,could not fault it at all,
so reliable.

Yeah i know what you mean i'm on my third one now the only thing that goes wrong them is that the bonnet hinges seize up from lack of use!

I think I need to get me a Honda then. Drove back to pick Vinnie up last night and then got halfway back to Sutton Coldfield and the little git started making a new horrible noise from the wheels. So he's back at the garage again and I'm back driving Freddie flipping Fiat. Anyone want to buy a mini??

Amy Fiats are not that good either even if they are called freddie!, i've just realised where your photo was taken i thought i'd seen that lift before(only about a million times)

Sounds like you need to take vinnie to a mini specialist 'hee' 'hee'
Yeah FIAT'S aren't that good especially as it stands for
F ix
I t
A gain
T omorrow

Ah ha!

Freddie Fiat's middle name isn't really Flipping, there's another much more appropriate word beginning with F....

Greg, can you move to Sutton please?! I need a mini man here! There's lots of minis here, you'd like it

edit: matt are you kidding me, going in the MINI garage in Vinnie was one of the greatest moments of my life!!! Had to document it! Vin only just fitted on the BMW ramp! If it didn't cost £200 an hour I'd so have him serviced there for kicks. Best was as we rolled through those posh sliding gates where all the shiny new MINIS are and Kris's mini overheating and spewing steam out. Still wouldn't swap for a new one though

Freddie Fiat's middle name isn't really Flipping, there's another much more appropriate word beginning with F....

Is it Freddie the friendly Fiat

I think yours is only the third proper mini to go on that lift the other two were mine but we did have someone bring a mini in for a service but they spoke to the wrong person who basically told them where to go! shame really makes a change from binis, i think Greg did it in the end.

Amy wrote:yeh I don't think Vinnie is fond of rolling roads at all. I didn't spot you Nick sorry, did see a blue mini go past that honked at me just as the recovery were hoisting Vin onto the back. I'm just grateful it went in a 30 limit when I was only doing about 20 after the roundabout, rather than on the motorway home!!
Had a call from the garage today and as well as the wheel bearing I'm getting two new tyres and new brake pads. Excellent!

hi Amy it was me that honked at you in the layby at lyde ,sorry i didnt stop to see if you were ok was being harrased by my son,i hope vinnie is ok i tried to introduce myself at malvern but there wasnt anyone around i waited for about 20 mins but had to go maybe ill get off my rear and get to a meet soon

Ooops, hi Di! Sorry i missed this, I wondered if it might have been you! Don't worry about not stopping, there wasn't anything anyone could have done for Vinnie at that point except kick him as he was dragged onto the recovery truck (which i was tempted to do). I appreciated the beep you gave me anyway! Cheered me up a bit! Vinnie is more or less ok now yeay.
Sorry no-one was around at Malvern to meet you, I wasn't there either. You will have to get to a meet soon, there's one next Thursday! We're all friendly I promise!