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    Posted: 12-August-2006 at 23:53
Howdy Lads

By this time I expected myself and Kin would be posting lots of cool shots and drive bys in the tunnels of wales as we make our way to germany for the BMW driver training.

Instead I am holed up in a kippy hilton hotel in kensington, after my f**king engine decided to conk on me somewhere in north wales.  Cruising along the  motorway at nice speeds all of a sudden I lost power, engine starts spluttering and the emissions warning light comes on.

Managed to make it to an exit, gave it 20 mins until the light went out.  Managed to get another 40 miles or so before the same thing happened.  Another enforced break, made our way off again and somehow I managed to coax the car all the way to london.  Feels like an ignition coil is gone and I am down a couple of cylinders....once I get the car up to speed it will cruise ok but put the foot down at all and it will start splutttering and conk out. 

To top this off, we were relying on gps and neither myself nor kin had programmed our systems to avoid the area around heathrow.  We therefore got caught in the mother of all traffic jams and to say I had 5 litres of urine in my bladder before we made it to a bog would be an understatement.

Anyway, the AA will only help me if I join for 12 months but can't guarantee they can solve my problem.  After many painful phonecalls to BMW assist I finally managed to get a really nice lady called Claire who helped me out and has organised a tech for tomorrow am, but we will now miss our chunnel crossing and all of the public day plus possibly registration for the event.

I just hope its something as simple as coils, plugs or o2 sensors and not something major.

Say a prayer for me tonite boys.

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jeez mick, bad luck, as i really can't be arsed to do any work this evening i wish you all the best for the morning and hopefully it'll be something minor

finger crossed you get sorted and be at the ring within 12 hrs

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Yup that sucks but with a bit of luck you'll be downing the pints this time tomorrow celebrating your first day at the ring, wish i was going along too. Hopefully it's nothing major anyway.
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Fingers crossed its something small ///M3Mick and you get over to the ring in time.
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Woohooo!!!

Thanks to my guardian angel, Alan, from BMW assist I am back on the road.

As I suspected, it was a bust ignition coil on cylinder 5.  They are old coils from a batch known to fail from before they moved to Bosch. He replaced all 6 sicne the new ones are not compatible with the old ones.

Off to catch a train!!

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ps Kin has lots of embarassing pics of the car in little pieces which I am sure he will post up later.


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Thats good Mick. Hope all goes well for the rest of the trip. If it brakes down again just buy a real good tow rope and get Kin to tow you. I'm sure you could still cruise at 70mph.

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i know how you feel mick.. this happened to me on a trip to the north for karting and i was on the hard shoulder for 2 hours, eventually got sorted .. glad to hear your sorted .. enjoy the ring and cant wait to see the pictures!!!!
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A trip to the North to go karting?????? Getting some practice are we?
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Originally posted by flyingalexf68 flyingalexf68 wrote:

A trip to the North to go karting?????? Getting some practice are we?
it was a few months back!!! havent been since the last meeting at kylemore!!! hopefully i can go to the mondello one because i'm off to Australia on the 5th of september without my wife and kids.. they might want to spend that sunday with me!!! i'd say ill be gion tho!!!
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Luke, just act like a real a**hole on the Sunday morning and you'll be kicked out of the house and then you can come karting.

Mick, hope everything goes okay and I'm looking forward to video's and pics.

Kin, looking forward to some 'Ring gardening vids.

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Mick hope you and Kin Make it to the nurenburg ring, looking forward to seeing some photos, oh and don't forget to time it for us! 
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Good to hear you got sorted lads, enjoy the Nordschleife.

Have a few bitburgers for us alland dont forget to cook your own steak in the pistenklause



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OH MY GOD! and THANK GOD!

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that was a close one mick... hope you lads didnt miss out on too much.

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Sorry to hear of your troubles.

At least you're on the road again fairly quickly!

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Wahey Lads

I'm writing this sitting comfortably now in the hilton waldorf in london.  Back tomorrow.

Made it in the end at around 7.30 on sunday night just in time for registration.

Full report to follow, but we had a fantastic time and I think I can safely say there is no better way to learn the ring than to go on this course.  We went out on some public laps on wednesday night and I think it would take 50 laps in those conditions to learn what we did in 3 days.  Its not just beginners; myself and kin were the only two in our group who hadnt been before and the standard of driving was excellent!!!  I am planning next years visit already.

The standard of cars was amazing; E46 M3's and CSL's were common as muck, as were 911's and a fair bit of exotica thrown in such as a corvette Z06, Ferrari Superamerica, F430 etc

As regards lap times, my best was sadly a 9.35 but I think we both can do better.  We just wanted to get back in one piece on our first trip. 

We did have the steak in the pistenklause and it is fabulous, and although its cliche we will both be sporting 'ring stickers on our bootlids now.

If anyone is itching to read about it, ben Lovejoy (yes the famous one who has over 1500 laps under his belt) was in our group and was writing it up as he went along.

http://www.nurburgring.org.uk/trip_reports/trip48/index.html

Ciao

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Well done. Glad you got there in time. And glad you got out of there in one piece too. Looking forward to more info and pics.
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i'm glad you guys made it!!! cant wait for the pictures...
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Glad to hear it turned out well in the end - looking forward to seeing the pics.
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