Club Triumph

:) 8) 2 out of 2 for my Sauna!   ;)

:) (clap)

The Herald estate also failed to finish I think - some kind of rear-end transmission issue I think.....

The was also talk of major issues with one of the TR7/8s (the TVR engined one?) on the first night but I'm not sure whether it recovered?

Nick

We found the estate on the hard shoulder just out the far end of the 12km tunnel in Austria. They were gloomily contemplating recovery due to diff failure. We left them a pot of EP90 just in case but carried on as not much else we could do.

Yep our Herald estate didn't make it :(

Started banging away like mad from the back end halfway through the 12km tunnel!
We weren't really in the best position to be helped either, we pulled over as soon as we got out, which meant that if people wanted to stop and help they basically couldn't due to the speed they would be doing and an immediate turn off!

Malcolm and I disassembled it partly on friday, found the spring to be pretty shagged. Yesterday Malc found the driveshafts
were knackered as well. Wheelbearing gone in one, uj in the other. Not very impressive considering they were brand new driveshafts put on the weekend before we went!

Getting home was a nightmare through the insurance as well :(

Anyway, at least we did the passes! :)
Still had a great time, but gonna have to do it again now ;)

Cheers
Tim

Martin:  If you are also listing problems that did not cause a DNF, since the RBRR in 06 I beleive my car was only the second to loose a windscreen.  Outher car did not finish the 06 run.  Would like to see a list of all brakedowns and why.  On the last 10CR my car lost it's engine fan, (it fell off) but we finished.  Two 10CR's with problem but never anything on the 3 RBRR's I have run.

I don't record problems that don't cause a DNF as it would be too complex.

Regarding GT6s - basically yes they have been entered and to my knowledge none have ever failed to finish(clap)

With the infomration regarding the Herald estate I will be revisiting the stats and hoepfully I'll find out who and what car it was that had the gearbox failure too (hope it wasn't a GT ;D).

This has all set me off building another set of stats - anorak fully zipped up :B

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Morning Toby

There should be a lot more of the  :B I think,

Hang your head in shame at your foolishness.

Whatever possessed you to let Vinnie have a go.......

Is it repairable??


It's worse than that - I talked him in to it
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Raider:my car that failed is a pre face lift mkII PI saloon (1973) and like timraven had a terrible time trying to ask the insurers recovery service to organise getting myself and two co drivers home. :-/

those of you that had trouble getting back home - did you have classic policies with peter james/footman james or the like?

Two out of two for me....but those Spitfire statistics make me shudder!

I know MIke but I think it would be a mamoth task. :-/

If individuals sent me details I could start to record them.

It's also the same though with other stuff - like alternators have been a problem on RBRRs in the past bust most crews tend to carry spares now so they don't show up in the "DNFs"