How much LUCK have you had?

**wardy1** · 17th February 2010, 07:35 PM

OK, so I don't want all those "Holier than thou" types here.
The other night I was driving along and really not concentrating that hard. Went down a steep hill and up again and BANG!...Blue and Red in the RV mirror.
Very pleasant fella in blue took my license, asked me to to do the breatho thing and all was good. Then he showed me the reading on the radar gun..... 92 in a 60 zone!...... ****!
Off he went to do his rego/licence check and then he came back. "Do you realise that this is a 30 day automatic license suspension + a substantial fine?"
Oh....**** says me.
Then he said he'd looked at my driving record and that he'd decided to give me a WARNING!
I could have kissed him but really...that would have got me a ticket and jail time

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How lucky have YOU been lately?

midal · 17th February 2010, 07:53 PM

Bless you my son

.....has it taught you anything?

Cheers
Mick

**banjo** · 17th February 2010, 07:59 PM

None i own a series3 landy.& i have enuff trouble making 60 in a 60 zone....

Very lucky wardy very lucky indeed..

**V8Ian** · 17th February 2010, 08:03 PM

Originally Posted by midal

Bless you my son

.....has it taught you anything?

Cheers
Mick

Yep, look in the mirror more often.

midal · 17th February 2010, 08:31 PM

Originally Posted by V8Ian

Yep, look in the mirror more often.

I was actually being facetious in reference to the "holier than thou" statement.....I'm sure we have all done the same thing to some degree

Cheers
Mick

**rovercare** · 17th February 2010, 08:38 PM

Must admit, I did the other day, pulled up at half 10 at night in the 120" realised the taillights weren;t working, but to late to repair and wasn;t far to head, so jumped out the car, spose your pulling me up for no tailights'the reply was, oh, you already know

, they were nice enough to tail me to where I was headed and not put the car of the road, was quite pleasing actually

**Cousinlarry** · 17th February 2010, 09:05 PM

Not long ago my waterpump siezed on a drive home from the Gold Coast - not that lucky you may say but, heres the good part. I smelt burning rubber and immediately pulled over and discovered a broken fan belt, phoned a mate who bought me a new one, fitted that but, couldn't turn her over. Just then I spotted a 4x4 World guy in a nearby shop, he knew a local tow man and a local land rover specialist. Turns out the land rover mechanic was only 4 k's away and had the water pump replaced 2 hours later. So if the fan belt hadn't been caught up against a pully and not just fallen out the engine bay it I would never have smelt the burning and probably driven on causing overheating and engine damage, just then a 4x4 specialist pulled up and arranged a tow, land rover specialist was just round the corner now that was a lucky place to break down!
By the way the mechanic said in 36 years of working on landies he's never seen a siezed water pump.

JamesH · 17th February 2010, 09:41 PM

We were out the back of Mt Augustus heading the back road to Paraburdoo when my mates clutch fork gave way. Bad luck. It gave way just as we were about to go through a range of hills and windy track. More bad luck. He managed to drive her clutchless 240km through the hills and limp into Para.

He called his landie mechanic and described the symptoms and clutck fork it was. It so happened his daughter was flying up to join us for a week of the trip. it so happened a clutch kit was there to be picked up by said daughter. It also so happened the Para mechanic who has been booked out four weeks ahead for the last four years had the mining company call him and tell them the mining company Coaster he was booked to work on just had a prang or something.

We were on the track about 24 hours later than we would been anyway.

We say we were lucky. Could so easily have been a remote pick up by a flatbed and good bye holiday.

**Discovery300Tdi** · 17th February 2010, 09:46 PM

NONE

AND STILL GOING WITH NO LUCK!!!

**robzilla** · 17th February 2010, 10:10 PM

Was pulled over once in the Dandenong's on the way home from a car cruise with some others from the Nissan Silvia crowd.
Mentally prepared myself for a full bonnet-up defect session. figured the burbly exhaust and custom gauge cluster would be dead giveaways

Cop asked me what i was doing here at 2am (he had my license, so knew i was from the suburbs), told him i'd been studying for exams so just out for a drive to relax and get some air.
It worked

didn't even get breatho'd.
Thanked my stars i was in a "sleeper" Bluebird and not a Jap import, drove home as sedately as possible

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