Not your usual Stag breakdown!

[DJT]

Currently sat in a lay-by at the side of the A30 in Somerset waiting for assistance. Some tw*t left an empty dumpy bag in the road. Couldn’t avoid it and it has wrapped around the propshaft taking out my electronic speedo drive. Afraid it will damage fuel or brake lines, so can’t drive it further. Hopefully a recovery chap can jack the car up and untangle the remains so that I can get home.

[wilf]

Bad luck - hope you are sorted very soon.

[022Dave]

I could do with a dumpy bag. Can I have it when you've finished with it?

Other Dave

[mole42]

I’m praying to the gods of recovery that you get sorted soon.

[DJT]

Back home already. Very efficient service from RH with a local breakdown van arriving promptly. The bloke jacked the car up under my direction, slid underneath and cut it free with a sharp knife. Turned out it was a bed sheet! Probably fell off a decorators van. Sounded like when we used to clip playing cards to our bike forks, but played through an amplifier . It seems to have bent the bracket holding the speedo sensor, so had to drive the 30 miles home without a speedo. Waze app did the job. I now know what I will be doing tomorrow.

[MikeParker]

Bad luck Dave. Particularly annoying when it is through no fault of the car!

[mike@thenook]

Annoying Dave but sounds like a fairly simple job to fix, just the laying on the floor under the car bit that I find less appealing as time goes on!

[APS]

Gosh ! It could have been a whole lot worse and no major damage. Glad all ok for you in the end and home soon after. Not looking forward to getting under car I guess. RH Insurance seems like a good option for me to consider come renewal time.

[singapore stag]

I had a similar experience but not so drastic. A large piece of plastic sheet got stuck onto the grill. The temperature started to rise. Got quite a scare. Parked on the hard shoulder and noticed the sheet, once removed and got going the temperature was back to normal.

[dasadrew]

Could have been worse, could have been an old mattress....

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[KOY 23]

Saved you from having to clean the underside.

[DJT]

Saved you from having to clean the underside.

I now have some nice shiny nuts also removed some of the powder coating on the diff support and bent the oil seal flinger

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Speedo sensor bracket was bent. Now reset and road tested v GPS speedometer app. Looks like it has snapped some brake/fuel line clips, so they are ty-wrapped in place and new clips on order. The nice job of removing exhaust silencer beckons when they arrive

[KOY 23]

I now have some nice shiny nuts

To match the shiny white balls you're usually playing with

[brian0443]

You got off lightly DJT. Similar two years ago, but with a pair of track-suit bottoms. Ripped out fuel line, brake line, and pulled on handbrake. Replaced easily enough, but it's a Stag, so the brake master cylinder went, and in bleeding the brakes, bleed nipple sheared almost as soon as the spanner touched it.

[richardthestag]

Logic would suggest reverse.

However in the real world one of my lads, whom we shall call David, was driving my dad's Series 2a Landie around his field. David was learning still (ok he was probably only just old enough to reach the pedals) and found a roll of stock fence which he thought "yep that seems like a great idea" the car stopped dead. took me near 2h and a couple of cutting discs to free the poor landie