I had a meeting scheduled today with a big potential customer but yesterday he postponed it :mad: So I think, there is someone else I can schedule a meeting with at 8.30 this morning instead. I set out from Cardiff at 7.30 this morning, traffic grinds to a halt 4 miles from home as the M4 is shut due to an accident :mad:.
I ring the guy to say I will be there late, maybe 10.30, an 1 1/2 later at 9.30 I am another 5 miles down the road but not past the accident, I decided to take a sneaky route and manage 5 miles in 25 minutes - a result compared to the past 2 hrs.
Then a horrible noise starts coming from the engine (V6 TDi Audi A4) :mad::mad: I coast to a halt in a pub car park, now 10.00am. Call the RAC to say need help as not driving any futher, told be there in 45mins.
45 mins later get a call to say patrol stuck in traffic as motorway closed - no sh*t, did they think I flew over it? Be another hour.
11.45 he turns by which time I have found shredded belt in the engine bay, he has one look at the bit of belt I have in my hand, looks in the engine bay but the belts have covers he can't remove. He says "the bit of belt you found is good enough for me, not starting it and will get a recovery truck as the car is a quattro, truck will be an 1hr" and off he goes.
1.00pm a local pick up company turn up and recover the car to the garage and get there at 1.45pm. I go into the office to chat with the owner while the car is unloaded. I walk out to see the guy stood by the car as it comes off the wagon (normailly the sit in to control the car?)
*the towing eye comes out (turns out not screwed in by him properly) and the car rolls off the truck backwards straight into the side of a parked van* Damaging the bumper but more damage to the van :mad::mad::mad:
Eventually get home at 2.15pm having got 15-20 miles from home, no meeting, car broken and damaged!!
I had a meeting scheduled today with a big potential customer but yesterday he postponed it :mad: So I think, there is someone else I can schedule a meeting with at 8.30 this morning instead. I set out from Cardiff at 7.30 this morning, traffic grinds to a halt 4 miles from home as the M4 is shut due to an accident :mad:.
I ring the guy to say I will be there late, maybe 10.30, an 1 1/2 later at 9.30 I am another 5 miles down the road but not past the accident, I decided to take a sneaky route and manage 5 miles in 25 minutes - a result compared to the past 2 hrs.
Then a horrible noise starts coming from the engine (V6 TDi Audi A4) :mad::mad: I coast to a halt in a pub car park, now 10.00am. Call the RAC to say need help as not driving any futher, told be there in 45mins.
45 mins later get a call to say patrol stuck in traffic as motorway closed - no sh*t, did they think I flew over it? Be another hour.
11.45 he turns by which time I have found shredded belt in the engine bay, he has one look at the bit of belt I have in my hand, looks in the engine bay but the belts have covers he can't remove. He says "the bit of belt you found is good enough for me, not starting it and will get a recovery truck as the car is a quattro, truck will be an 1hr" and off he goes.
1.00pm a local pick up company turn up and recover the car to the garage and get there at 1.45pm. I go into the office to chat with the owner while the car is unloaded. I walk out to see the guy stood by the car as it comes off the wagon (normailly the sit in to control the car?)
*the towing eye comes out (turns out not screwed in by him properly) and the car rolls off the truck backwards straight into the side of a parked van* Damaging the bumper but more damage to the van :mad::mad::mad:
Eventually get home at 2.15pm having got 15-20 miles from home, no meeting, car broken and damaged!!