I thought I kept noticing a Hyundai Coupe getting smaller in my mirror. Cant wait to see the video when you get it sorted. Really did enjoy the drive, nice one Dave. Hope Len and co are home safe.

Video on it's way

Got home at 23.30 :(, but more about that later....

Glad to see you got back Len.

Video is here

YouTube - Brisky - Keswick-08

Looks like you had a good day out, sorry to hear about your car Len, but glad to hear you got back ok.

Glad to see you got back Len.

Video is here

YouTube - Brisky - Keswick-08

nice vid... you get black magin nearly taking off lol... and just sfter we'd stopped, then headed up one of the steepest bits, I like the way the camera looses the road completlely, shows how steep it is! lol...

sorry to hear it took so long Len :( glad you're all ok in the end...

Wish I had come now the wedding fair was not as good as I thought, but had to visit relatives afterwards so still could not make it.

Come on Dave get the next one set up for next year

Just seen the video, glad I didn't follow on realy, it would have been my luck to start misfiring on one of those steep hills and got me annoyed and then the car would have ended up being pushed off the side and I'd have had to lend Len a couple of wheels and then had to walk home lol. Enjoyed the food though at the George, gonna have to take on the cow pie!!!

This is the complete trip over the pass from my view, I couldn't see any more than the camera did :eek:

You can't hear anything cos I had the de-mister on and it was blowing straight into the microphone

YouTube - Drifter Goes: Over Hardknott Pass

Dammit! Can't get YouTube at work. Will have to wait till this evening.

It was a great drive, apart from the punctures. Thanks for organising it. As I live up ther now I might even bring a Skoda to the next one!

Oh, I realised once I got home should have introduced myself properly, and by forum name. I do post here see.....just not much recently.

Phil

(corrado!)

Ah! Wondered why I couldn't match a name to the car.

Thanks for bringing the Corrado, it is a lovely example

Thanks to Dave for organising the meet, it was a good run while it lasted.

The problem started at the top of Hard Knot Pass with a double bang on the nearside, but all seemed well enough, with no TPM warning light lit, so carried

on at normal speed :eek:

It became obvious to me that something was amiss as I was experiencing a

constant vibration not relative to the road surface once we got to the bottom

of the pass and going over a tight left/right turn When the front tyre came off

the rim................... I then decided to stop and see what was up.....

And thanks for coming back after "the incident" people

The Skoda assistance was a bit of a disaster, with the recovery company claiming to be

unable to find us, or phone us due to lack of coverage? And at one point informed us that the truck was on it's way up the M1 from around the Coventry area!

They then stated that the truck would be with us in the next five mins....

I think they where waiting for

the night shift to come in early......

We were then informed that we would be taken back to the recovery depot (In Whitehaven)

and transfered onto another recovery vehicle for the journey home, joy of joy!

Also informed that the would need ti fit the spare tyre on the rear to enable them to use a front lift recovery. In order to speed the process up, Alastair and I decided to change the rear tyre before they arrived, and did it rain, you bet it did

After having been sat in the car waiting for what seemed an eternity, the first

recovery truck turned up!

Can you turn the car around sir, because we will be traveling in the opposite direction. Just what you want to do on an un-tyred rim :thumbdwn:

We then got loaded up, and sat in the back of the truck. What a strange

experience, being driven along strange roads and unable to see where you are going.....

Then we arrived at the depot.....

You had better use the toilets, because we will not be stopping on the way

Then it was how do you fit the towing eye? No idea mate, I will check the manual.............. still no idea because it does not show the fitting for a vRS.

The winch cable was attached in due course to (probably the drive shaft).

They now have to rev the engine of the second recovery vehicle to enable the winch to work, but the control cable will only just enable the operator to manage it at full stretch

So there we were, fully loaded up for the second leg of the journey and on our way, in what appears to be an SDI four speed (N reg to boot)....

Well, needless to say we arrived home four and a half hours after the first collection, and proceeded to block the street and off-load the car. As luck would

have it, when they had secured the vehicle on the trailer, the tyre had popped back on the rim, thus enabling me to drive it onto our private road

The car is now back on the road after getting two new tyres fitted this morning

and managed to blag two for the price of one.....

glad everything was eventually sorted out Len..... sounds like it was a bit ofa cafuffle to me!

maybe I should give up organising thse things, I seem to kill an octavia each time :eek:

ah well , roll on the next one

Glad the car is ok now Len.

Sharkrider - Remind me not to buy a octy in the future in case it is a curse.

davy

Cant wait until the next one. I hadnt realised quite how much distance me and Dave put between ourselves and the Corrado/Hyundai at one point.

just a quicky to say just watched Mike Wrightson's videos and love the look of that! I'm a big Cumbria fan and love driving those roads, makes me want to jump in the car right now and drive up there! good work fella's!

Wow, that was quite a carry-on Len :eek: glad you are all back on the road though

Cant wait until the next one. I hadnt realised quite how much distance me and Dave put between ourselves and the Corrado/Hyundai at one point.

Yeah, on the hills the petrol cars just could not match you two It didn't help that I caught myself in the wrong gear a couple of times either

Cant wait until the next one. I hadnt realised quite how much distance me and Dave put between ourselves and the Corrado/Hyundai at one point.

when it comes to hills, we'll let the torque do the talking

when it comes to hills, we'll let the torque do the talking

I need a supercharger

Bugger - I missed this.

I've just moved my weekend residence up that way and would have come if I'd checked the date.

when it comes to hills, we'll let the torque do the talking

Cant wait until the next one. I hadnt realised quite how much distance me and Dave put between ourselves and the Corrado/Hyundai at one point.

Nah, I was just letting you go on a bit so I could put my foot down:rolleyes:.

Glad you got back safe (eventually) Len, and Mike, good video!

Phil

I need a supercharger

You need a V6.

shutupshutupshutup