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Nic Jarman
Joined: 05 Oct 2008 Posts: 1031 Location: Stoke by Clare, Suffolk
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Posted: Fri Sep 18, 2009 1:34 pm Post subject: VERY SCARY |
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I have been planning to sort the wiring out in the boot for some time but now it will have to be done.
I was driving home and I noticed the radio had gone quiet, nothing unusual around Cavendish as there is poor reception. I looked at the radio and smoke billowed out of it. Fortunately I had the top down and I managed to flip the front of the stereo off but it continued to smoke so I turned the ignition off. I coasted into a conveniently placed lay by and I yanked the radio live feed from the battery - job done and I am 5 miles from home.
When I checked the wiring in the boot I found the live feed to the electric aerial had rubbed on the spare throttle cable that was under the plastic petrol can that is FULL. The cable must have glowed red hot and the thread on the adjuster had melted into the plastic. How lucky is that - I think God loves me.
_________________ 1936 Morris 8 Series 1
1973 MGB roadster
1977 MG Midget 1500
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intransit
Joined: 03 Mar 2009 Posts: 14
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Posted: Fri Sep 18, 2009 2:01 pm Post subject: |
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bloody hell |
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Rick Site Admin
Joined: 27 Apr 2005 Posts: 22447 Location: UK
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Nic Jarman
Joined: 05 Oct 2008 Posts: 1031 Location: Stoke by Clare, Suffolk
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Posted: Fri Sep 18, 2009 2:17 pm Post subject: |
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I checked the fuse in the stereo and it is OK. Very strange as the feed for the aerial comes through the unit. If anyone has an electric aerial put a fuse in the feed. _________________ 1936 Morris 8 Series 1
1973 MGB roadster
1977 MG Midget 1500
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47Jag
Joined: 26 Jun 2008 Posts: 1480 Location: Bothwell, Scotland
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Posted: Fri Sep 18, 2009 5:11 pm Post subject: |
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Nik,
You should have bought a lottery ticket that day. I read that a gallon of petrol has the same explosive power as 18 pounds of TNT.
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47p2
Joined: 24 Nov 2007 Posts: 2009 Location: Glasgow
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Posted: Fri Sep 18, 2009 6:34 pm Post subject: |
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A narrow escape indeed. Glad you managed to prevent a disaster _________________ ROVER
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Nic Jarman
Joined: 05 Oct 2008 Posts: 1031 Location: Stoke by Clare, Suffolk
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Posted: Fri Sep 18, 2009 11:37 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks 47p2 and 47jag I have run out of clean underwear - just thinking about it. _________________ 1936 Morris 8 Series 1
1973 MGB roadster
1977 MG Midget 1500
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ianm
Joined: 03 Dec 2007 Posts: 161 Location: Warwick Qld Australia
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Posted: Sat Sep 19, 2009 9:47 am Post subject: |
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G,day Nic,
I'm thinking that if you were a cat you would have used up your 9 lives
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Jim.Walker
Joined: 27 Dec 2008 Posts: 1229 Location: Chesterfield
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Posted: Sat Sep 19, 2009 9:49 pm Post subject: |
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Considering modern cars I have long said "the more gadgets you have the more things there are to go wrong", but I never imagined anything like this!
Glad you are still around to write about it! Looking at my Dad's quote below, perhaps he did. _________________ Quote from my late Dad:- You only need a woman and a car and you have all the problems you
are ever likely to want". Computers had not been invented then! |
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