Tam & Toby ~~Hunting Zorba

pagey said:
on the face of it they seem to be a fair garage only charging 2 hours lab its all in the past now go and enjoy it ...if you had got over the water that bill would have been a lot dearer and i dare say very stressful
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Yeah or they are feeling guilty lol
Who knows but yes definitely would have been more elsewhere
 
Glad you're going to be back on the road very soon, Tam.

The bill seems very reasonable to me. We'd have loved to have paid that "little" in Norway 👍

Happy travels.

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Right then ...tunnel is booked once again for Sunday morning 09.20 crossing

Plan to leave tomorrow morning ...will be heading direct this time so I need suggestions for Saturday night stopover fairly close to the tunnel please

I will also need folk to remind me about the bloody Dartford crossing on Saturday night

Don't know how far down I'll get tomorrow.

Will create another polar steps journey starting tomorrow
 
Are you starting a new thread, or continuing on this one?
 
Last year I drove from Perth to the park-n-ride at Canterbury in one day. Not much fun, but I was assured I could turn up late and still get a parking spot. £7 unless you plan to arrive just after midnight. Only half-an-hour or so to the tunnel.

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we often stop at the Drum Inn, Asford before we catch the tunnel. Literally 5 minutes from the tunnel and always a good meal. HArdstanding and electric available. telephone 01303 812125
 
G-RMPS said:
Last year I drove from Perth to the park-n-ride at Canterbury in one day. Not much fun, but I was assured I could turn up late and still get a parking spot. £7 unless you plan to arrive just after midnight. Only half-an-hour or so to the tunnel.
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That's a steady 10 hours j should think depending on time of day,,all motorway or dual carriageway. Boring though.BUSBY.
 
All pay options for an 'FLT' that has just forked out >£500 they weren't expecting!
Isn't there a bit of seafront you can park on for nowt?

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Not doing it in one go ...I've already had one very long boring drive this week I'm not doing it again ..I'll head off tomorrow and do 200 - 250 miles then stop and do the rest Saturday ...stop over somewhere Saturday night so I can roll up to Folkestone 8am or so Sunday morning

Stroppy Bird said:
Are you starting a new thread, or continuing on this one?
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I'll start a fresh thread as the last 10 pages of this one is all breakdown stuff
 
G-RMPS said:
Last year I drove from Perth to the park-n-ride at Canterbury in one day. Not much fun, but I was assured I could turn up late and still get a parking spot. £7 unless you plan to arrive just after midnight. Only half-an-hour or so to the tunnel.
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Barrier closes at 8pm but there is a bit of space outside & someone mentioned the pub nearby are OK if you buy a meal.
 
What you are saying about how it was running & when we spoke on Saturday it does sound like it was the alternator belt that did the damage.
Labour rate about the same as the independent I use but I think it would have been at least 5 hours labour so they did you a favour. It's the pully & bracket that wound up the price, I noticed they didn't charge for the bolt they nicked out of their machine.
 
Setting up an account for the Dartford crossing can be done on your mobile and you can put more than 1 vehicle on the account. Also you get a cheaper rate and it never expires also they remind you when you need to top up. It’s a no brainier. Do it
 
just a heads up, the french have a 24 hour strike in calais, operation stack this side so there will be severe congestion down this way in kent for ferries and no doubt impacting on the tunnel and some of your route tam so may take you longer if you get caught up in the aftermath of it..
glad to hear you've got toby sorted and are setting off again, safe travel and adventures, take care, have fun..

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you can overnight on the car park in sandwich but you do have to pay or theres farthing common a mile or so past the drum thats free
 
Well I decided about 4pm I was just going to head off tonight ...because by the time I get up walk dogs etc in morning then get past all the Edinburgh traffic it would be yon time ...so I went to Asda picked up a few things including a pizza for mum and I to have before setting off

I'm out packing shopping away and moving the cars in to driveway etc while mum cooked pizza

Came in and the pizza all over the floor .....

Mum dropped it taking it out the oven lol

She's more concerned about cheese on her slippers than the lovely pizza

So vans all packed ...Chinese on way
Once I've inhaled that we are off
Will stop at Berwick or something tonight

New thread going up now

Polar steps trip created too
 
scousebird said:
Poor mum's slippers

If it wasn't for bad luck, you'd have no luck at all :giggler:
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Aye aaaaaand in my haste taking Toby out the drive I smacked the wheel off the curb.. fortunately I don't think I've damaged it but man I've had a day

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Tam and Toby ~~ Hunting Zorba .....Take two.

So after the disastrous start to the trip last week ....Toby having a breakdown and a few days in rehab he's now feeling himself again ....so it's all systems go Tunnel is booked for 9.20am Sunday 27th so a couple of days to get down there and then on to Belgium hopefully for Sunday night...
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New thread ...

Please can we keep anything about the breakdown etc to this thread so as not to confuse the new one ...this one will probably dry up in a day or two.

Onwards and upwards
 
Northernraider said:
Well I decided about 4pm I was just going to head off tonight ...because by the time I get up walk dogs etc in morning then get past all the Edinburgh traffic it would be yon time ...so I went to Asda picked up a few things including a pizza for mum and I to have before setting off

I'm out packing shopping away and moving the cars in to driveway etc while mum cooked pizza

Came in and the pizza all over the floor .....

Mum dropped it taking it out the oven lol

She's more concerned about cheese on her slippers than the lovely pizza

So vans all packed ...Chinese on way
Once I've inhaled that we are off
Will stop at Berwick or something tonight

New thread going up now

Polar steps trip created too
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You could get a takeaway from where you worked. ::bigsmile: Safe travels.(y)
 
Northernraider said:
...I've already had one very long boring drive this week I'm not doing it again ..
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Could you not get the recovery relay guys to take it back down for you? You'd get away around Christmas time!:whistle2::whistle2:

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