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Left the house at 6.20 yesterday morning....

Got home at 1.20 this morning.....

Had a fucking mini bus that :

1. Had next to no brakes.

2. Had an overheating radiator.

3. Wiper blades packed up on way home.

4. Lights packed up on way home.

Got stranded in Poxfordshire for 2 and a half hours and didn't get back to swindon till after 11.00, then had to drive home.

Gotta say I had a laugh though, espicially after the piece of crap broke down!

And we won! All in all not a bad day!!

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Dangerfields, wank wank wank, Dangerfields, wank wank wank.

I think Dangerfields  will be the new sponsor next year.  :wink:

well done herthab, many thanks to you for taking on the challenge (I presume we forgot to mention about using the dodgiest Mini Bus company in the Western world).

cheers for driving, that's fucking dedication!

i told my dad the name of the minibus company when i got in, he shuddered and told me about a time they had a dangerfields minibus and a wheel fell off on the m40.

did the cunts still make you pay?

I'm sorry you had such a shit time with the minibus, Steve and passengers.

However...

The minibuses from Dangerfields usually only cost £75 each a day (this NYD was a lot more because somebody had to come in specially to do the paperwork etc). So firstly they are dirt cheap.

Secondly (as everybody noticed with bits falling off and stuff), you can load them up with beer and drunk Town fans and whatever we do to them has little impact.

To put this in perspective, my good lady hires minibuses from GWR for the school she works at. They are all brand spanking new, cost two to three times as much but also have a very detailed examination for damage both on pick up and drop off. This includes scratches, upholstery damage and so on. Even a small problem means that you have to cough up the excess.

So as in most things in life, you get what you pay for. Would anybody have wanted to pay £30+ for yesterday, with the condition (and my constant worry) that the buses might get vaguely damaged or that beer might have got accidentally spilt?

We've hired a total of six for the trips so far and with the exception of Steve's lemon yesterday they have got us there and back.

As long as they are not actually dangerous.

But then again, Steve's brakes didn't work, FW's handbrake didn't and Sonic's dad knows about one losing a wheel...  :shock:

Well said Al, the fact that they are all a bit knackered means we couldn't wreck 'em, and I guess provided they can be proved as roadworty ie MOTs etc then they are spot on.  I'm still mystified by how our lights failing was actually caused by the radiator fan nearly falling off?!

i'd rather dangerfields than nothing at all! i just wouldn't fancy going to hartlepool in one  :D

get organising another please

hartlepool ina  transit is teh only way sonic.

Weve hired from dangerfields a fair few times and usually are fine.

Well done Hertab for driving us,so sorry to hear about how late you got back :( Fucking Dangerfields :x
Aisde from the shite van,it was a good day out :D

Woo I met Larwood and many others! Was slightly offended when she told Tails he should set an example to the younger ones (referrin to me) when i am the same age as him!

Hehe

Detective Hayward has just pieced the puzzle together...

Steve's minibus was fine until about halfway to Didcot, when the charging light came on and the temperature gauge started climbing. Followed by a realisation that the brakes were not working very well.

On the way back (and in the dark), the wipers packed up and then the battery went and consequently the lights.

Sooooooooooooo

The fan belt probably went half way up the A34 on the journey there. No fan belt = no water pump (overheats) and no alternator (no amps). They probably have pump driven power assisted brakes as well (no brakes).

The battery would have been man enough to last quite a few hours, even with the headlights on. First sign of it going flat...not enough umph to power the wipers. Still enough to burn the candles until sadly, that gave up too.

I should have asked Larwood to take her stockings off at Didcot station to effect a repair...

Did you come back on the back of a recovery truck then?

So sorry,i really have no memory of this,i was a bit merry :oops:

Don't think so Alan,stockings under jeans just doesn't work,not for me anyway.

Yep! When he finally arrived! The AA came out within 30 minutes, but I think once he realised he couldn't fix it by jump leads he fucked off, telling us the recovery vehicle would be there by 8.30.

After 3 or 4 calls to the AA to chase them up, They finally arrived at 10.00. Wankers.

Funniest was when I phoned one time and explained the situation, the operator took all the details, then asked if she could help me with anything else.....
Like what?

Should have asked for 5 quilts and a kebab for Rich..........

Shame I wasnt awake I could have probably sorted something quicker.

holy shit, if i had known you were waiting for a pickup that long i'd have ordered curries for you all!

Christ i felt and feel so guilty,it was ok for all us poxfordshire lot,but for you guys :(

So if it wasn't raining and wasn't dark, the battery might've had enough umph to get back to Swindon.

No need to feel guilty. As I've said already, it was actually a good laugh.

But I think a lot of that was manical laughing due to tiredness, lack of food and being freezing!

Locking the young lad out of the bus 2 or 3 times and trying to flash our fullbeam headlights at passing cars (when they didn't work) were just a few of the highlights, as was scouring the floor of the mini bus for food.

Oh, and getting Richs' hopes up when I said I had a giant pork pie...
I didn't....

Oh for fucks sake,i feel so bad,i took some sweets home with me,wish i'd left them now :cry:
I'll give Rich a big hug when i see him next,that'll make up for his suffering



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Hearing the suffering I avoided makes me even more thankful for that lift larwood.  That said I could have been on a minbus straight to swindon but foolishly decided to stay put!

Indeedy.

Damn winter.

Thanks to all the drivers, and especially to herthab for piloting our 'slightly temperamental' minibus.

anyone wanna post some pictures up from the Macdonalds away day?

I have a good one of Yeovil Red, some fake cows and errr that's about it. Oh and my avatar.

What......................and incriminate myself even further ?????   :oops:

Try M4 self drive. They are better. Less relaxed than Dangerfields, but then how they get them LDV's past the MOT iv got no idea.