so I leave home at 5 this morning to go and pick some friends up from Gatwick which I could have well done without as I am going on holiday tomorrow ,
get down there just before 7, into Mc Donalds for brecki coz you can park there for a bit ( 45 mins I think )
then into the BP to fill up.
as I hadent heard from the people I thought I might as well check the oil and water and tyre pressure .

all done so went to move the van to a waiting bay when I heard a loud bang got out to find my two week old rear tyre had a massive hole in the side wall.
lady parked next to me reckoned the manhole cover where they fill the tanks was slightly raised and I clipped it pushing the manhole cover back into place in the process .

went into garage to complain and they would not accept any responsibility for there dozy tanker driver not replacing the cover properly despite my rants.

The minute I got the jack out to change the tyre the phone rings
"where are you " my friend says

quickest tyre change you have ever seen then a 2 hour drive home 5 up with luggage with Honda nuts holding on the Hyundai spare (which uses deep sleeve nuts)

to say I was crapping muself was an understatement and the curry I had the previous night didnt help lol.

got home and had to buy a new tyre ( £58.00 )

moral of the story

never offer to take people to the airport just coz youve got a people carrier

redline wrote: [[tale of woe, including obligatory incontinence reference]]
Moral of the story

never offer to take people to the airport just coz youve got a people carrier

Oh, well that's ok, because most of the people on Volvo300mania have volvo 300s... not people carriers!

Still, sucks to be you, if you still had a proper car (tm) then you'd not have had that trouble would you?


Moral of the story

Don't buy a people carrier... they're shit

Moral of the story pt 2

Don't buy korean cars... they're REALLY shit :D

Glad you made it back safely and didn't become incontinent through fear/bad food etc