maddogsx

s****, mate. I know how you feel. It's worse when it's not you to blame. As long as no-one seriously hurt metal and plastic can be fixed/replaced.

I've re-built a few that have had 'offs' or 'oooooohhhhh-oooppssssshiiiiits' and as you say there's always something not quite there with them, maybe it's an entirely subconsious thing? Aye, might as well laugh/joke about it, s**** happen's just got to tramp along and keep chappin on lol. Still can't wait to meet the combine pilot though!

Yeah, it just made me boil with rage everytime a looked at it, and if something went tits up during it's re-build I'd o flipped and took a sledgehammer to the rest of it. Well I've still a bit more to get from them they gave me a 'basic' amount and once thehy recieve the service history etc there'll be a bit more onto the figure. could be worse could be "i gotta brand new combine harvester" pmsl.

washed and err, well washed it properly, tomorrow it'll get a day of attention on it, sort out a tiny bit corrosion on the rear arches, then set about a full service, belt, pulleys, tensioner and a set of angel eyes with HID lighting, hopefully my self levelling 'install' will work out and the dibble won't bother with them!

Well after the recent mishap with my Catalunya...................... I've got me another one Big thanks to smallcatalunya on here who sold me the car, it's so good to be out the bmw and back in a scooby again I'll put pics up once I've gave it a good wash, and detailed and waxed it tomorrow, well in a few hours

You must have the patience of a saint, I'm afraid that if it were me then good ol dad and simple son would have been 'asked to go away', in a rather abrupt manner, I have no patience for folk like that.

Just exactly my thought's either that or it was a dummy run to cover something else if he thought he had a blue light shadow. I'd be tempted to remove tghe AFM or some other quite vital part anytime I left it for the next while or so, and either a heavy chain or something across driveway. (and a few handily placed items....baseball bat within reach at all times)

I'm n ot familiar with the set up on an scoob, has it got individual coilpacks or a single one mounted on the inlet?

Farmer is being charged under the Road Traffic Act (sec3) Hopfully the PF will take it to court and not merely issue a fixed penalty.

Yes, it brings a few things home when think about it, i'd be locked up for years if anything had happened to my babies. Yes, It's going to Myles Coachworks here in Ayr, they really do turn out a cracking job, even if it turned out the insurers decided categorically no way and just offered a settlement, I'd insist on keeping it, and I'd fix it.

Car arrived home today, rips the guts out me seeing it sat like this. Looks like it'll be all good and get repaired though failing that, I'll retain salvage of it and rebuild it myself, with help of my friend who's really an exceptionally talented panel beater.

Or speak to somebody that may know somebody whoi in turn might know a spanish plod who might accidently leave the details in a notebook open while he goes to the toilet or something. well worth 100 euro's if that was what was left for the plod's lunch.

wouldn't be that hard to find him in Spain, I'd be up for a trip across with you (a kind of like that sort of thing...not you being ripped off but going to collect what's owed)

The police have impounded and put notice of restriction or prohibition, can't recall exact words and they said it's parked at a farm and will not be going anywhere untill they release it. Still not getting much response from my Ins Co, I thought I'd of got a courtesy car, with me being fully comprehensive.

Yes, thanks. Hope (my eldest daughter has bruising to her neck shoulder and top of chest, and bit embarrasingly but kind of funny announced very loudly in Tesco's to a friend of my wife's that 'dads going to hit the man with his bat stick' (baseball bat...which I didn't think she knew i had one and had no idea she knew it was in cupboard for 'incidents') Paige the youngest she's just her usual wild self keeps sayin 'daddy, oh is the car is a messy mess a man my car' lol Wifes sore but good. just the insurance nightmare now!

Colin Hyslop, driving the combine, not the one nearest to the car, but the one in the far off bit road in the picture aprox 80m? behind me is where he stopped. Company name is WM Hyslop & Son, from Lendalfoot outside Girvan. It happened on the Maybole to Daily road. Because of the attitude of the 'person' driving I will take this as far, and to as extreme an limit as I can now. He was point blank refusing to call an ambulance for my 4 yr old daughter, putting it in perspective the worst that could have happened to him (and not for the outcome such as is now) is prison, should things have went bad, and at his time of refusal, he'd no idea of anyone's situation at the car, whereas the condition of a 4yr old lass could have been life threatening. Sorry if I'm ranting a tad, but as you'll imagine i'm about to explode, wish to hell I had 'flipped' at him yesterday, but my only concern was the safety of my two weans, and my wife.

Well The insurance company informed me today, or more accurately The company they assign to fight the claim for me tell me the farmers insurance is 'more than likely invalid' I had to call mr farmer this morning to get his insurance details and as off 1600hrs he hadn't got in touch with them so meantime I've no car, no courtesy car......and no more fcuking patience left. Any suggestions apart from visit him with 'HICK' he was a total tosser on the phone as well, I'm just to angry to think rational and don't want my kids to do without me for 18 months which is why I'm still behaving myself for now. Insurance co were set to pay out asap till they found out this now it's as though they aren't interested.

I'm wanting another cat to be honest, really liked it, always wanted one, not to sure why but might be the paint colour. desperate to get behind the wheel again, farmer will def get it 100% and in all seriousness, i'm thinking of putting the cat back on road, jigged properly (roof's not up and i'm certain chassis leg isn't to bad, airbags didn't deploy, so I'll see what happens in the morning when I pop down to retrieve my defi boost and oil pressure gauges dvd player etc.

bit of an update, Katy's home from hosp, got a ct scan and it came up clear, she's bruised her spine, whatever that means. (shes home that's all that matters) Farmer is screwed he's broke so many laws from not displaying a valid tax disc to travelling a distance between sites greater than 1.5km as legally allowed to with nill duty tax (which he hadn't bothered with since 2006................would have been interesting if the scoob wasn't taxed the outcome difference then.) Already looking at a Terzo

yer, I'm sore but otherwise ok...apart from being in one hell of rager of a mood. I'd actually stopped the car, and attempted top get up the embankment, but the verge was to high to get the scoob to climb up from a stop kids seem ok, news from hospital isn't very bright they're sending my mrs for CT Scan suspected a fracture in her neck bone somewhere.

Well there's one less Catalunya about now, number 20 has met it's demise. In the guise of a green john deere combine harvester, my side of the road, no escort vehicle...farmer stated he should have had one and normally did. I tried to climb up the embankment, but the wheels would have went right over the rear where my two and four year old daughters were sitting, so had to be the rear wheel and hope it didn't go over car, and if it did just pray it stopped on me and not my kids. kids are ok except for burn and bruise where the belt marked her, wife's still in hosp.

No problem, I'll get it all done first thing in the morning.

I'll measure them in the morning, and should be able to get an exact match on the colours as well, so will mail that to you tomorrow. I got a price of 'about a tenner or something' for the two wing stickers and tailgate one, I could ask for a few sets if they'd come down in price. Will find out tomorrow for %100 the price

If you use instant gasket, take the seal completely out the rocker cover clean both the seal and the actual rocker cover so they've got clean oil free facings. Lay the seal back into the track in the cover, (also doing the same for the bolts and plug spaces) and once the gaskets in place use a tiny amount of gasket in the corners where it raises from the flat to accept the camshfts. That's the bit that seems to let the oil out the most, might also be worth doing the cam and oil pump/crankshaft oil seals at the same time for the few extra quid, it might save you a bit of time later on.