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[Excursion]

Splendid! I can spend hours in hose/hydraulic suppliers, fascinating stuff.

Just out of interest, did they cut the steel pipe and flare it ready to swage the hose on, or did you remove the old swages and join to the steel pipes in the same position as the original hoses?

[jimmyesh]

Splendid! I can spend hours in hose/hydraulic suppliers, fascinating stuff.

Just out of interest, did they cut the steel pipe and flare it ready to swage the hose on, or did you remove the old swages and join to the steel pipes in the same position as the original hoses?

Yeah they carefully cut the old swage off on each hose, leaving the Fiesta "pedal box end" hose with the rubber flexi section still in place and leaving the Focus one with just the metal "gearbox end" pipe. The vacant end of the Fiesta rubber hose was then swaged on to the Focus metal end and hey presto - one hybrid hose for my mixed bag of a car! There was no need to cut the steel pipe and re-flare as that was left in tact once the original swage was cut off.

[HCS PIMP]

awesome be gr8 when you finish your convo

[Excursion]

Yeah they carefully cut the old swage off on each hose, leaving the Fiesta "pedal box end" hose with the rubber flexi section still in place and leaving the Focus one with just the metal "gearbox end" pipe. The vacant end of the Fiesta rubber hose was then swaged on to the Focus metal end and hey presto - one hybrid hose for my mixed bag of a car! There was no need to cut the steel pipe and re-flare as that was left in tact once the original swage was cut off.

Thanks mate, my local place does a similar thing. I wondered if you'd found a supplier who could reproduce the Ford style crimps on the hard lines. £7 is a seriously good price for the work!

[jayrs]

you not tempted to get another hose made up "just in case"

[jimmyesh]

you not tempted to get another hose made up "just in case"

Maybe I should have mate, the place is only up the road though and are very helpful (and cheap - can't go wrong for £7! ) so whatever I need hose-wise in the future I'll be visiting them

[muz]

Looking good as ever Jim. I can see this 2.3 Duratec beign a popular conversion when you put all the hard work in and everyone knows how to do it

I was going to ask as well, do you happen to know my Cousin Tom Beardsley?

[jimmyesh]

Not f*cking happy!!

Right, while I was at work (up in North Yorkshire) yesterday I checked my phone and found loads of missed calls followed by a picture message starting with "sorry mate..."

Here it is below



Meanwhile back in Colchester, the Commanding Officer was due to inspect the workshop so the Sgt Major wanted my car moving outside. My mate, Taff phoned my wife who works on camp to get the keys but that wasn't good enough for the Sgt Major. He went and ordered some complete mong with an IQ of about 2 to jack the front of my car up and man-handle it into a parking space outside on a trolley jack, uphill and on uneven ground!

Obviously the tiny jack-wheels dug in and the car wouldn't move, mong-boy then proceeded to ram his shoulder into the O/S wing, denting it in the process, knocking it off the jack and maybe causing untold damage to the underside of the car

I'm still working up in Catterick until Nov 26th so was 250 miles away and completely powerless to do anything! I'm home now for the weekend though so am going in to look at the damage today, really dreading seeing what a state it's in...

I'm really hacked off as I left it in my own work-area for safe-keeping while I'm away up North and entrusted some good friends of mine in that dept to look after it, which they've tried their best to do. I wasn't expecting some complete bell-end from another dept who I don't even know to start man-handling my pride and joy and damaging it

[dontpannic]

Oh my god. Sorry to hear this, I truly hope the damage isn't too bad.

[Sphinx]

Sh!t mate, that's horrible to be so powerless when hearing of such things happening.
Fingers crossed that the damage isn't too bad!

[jimmyesh]

Here's what I saw today when I pulled the cover off

From what I've gleaned from the lads, the idiot tried LIFTING the front of the car by the O/S wing

I'm going to be in work a week Thursday and will be taking this moron to one side, demanding he pays for the damage or I will just walk up to his car with a sledge hammer...

[Ratspeed]

Dude, thats bad! I would be walking up to him with a sledgehammer. what a complete tugger!

[- Danny Boy -]

Thats such a sad sight to see, i would certainly walk upto him and his car with a sledge hammer and have no trouble beating them in.

Some people are just so careless!

[FRSJON]

bloody hell mate theres some right knob ends about.... hope he cough's up...

[Excursion]

Jesus!

[Project_XR2i_Trackcar]

what a bellend

was he a redarse tom by any chance.

[jonboisescort]

dic*head

some people have no respect

[jimmyesh]

was he a redarse tom by any chance.

Yeah the guy that physically did the damage is only a young "Tom" - he was ordered to move it onto the jack (which he tried to do by lifting it by the wheelarch due to the car being too low ) by the workshop boss and the 2ic of the company due to the steering lock being on . This was all despite the fact that my mate (a Ssgt) in my own dept had already called my wife (she works in the garrison med centre) for the keys and she was there within minutes - the Commanding Officer wasn't there for ages afterwards and I'm sure he would have been satisfied that I was away on detachment, so I'd left the car there for safe keeping under a cover.

I'm off back to Catterick tomorrow but have a few days off a week on Wednesday so am going in the workshop to have it out with some people and try to get to the bottom of all this, in the meantime I have some good mates there helping me out and hopefully I'll get compensated for the damage.

I would never dream of treating someone elses property in this manner and regardless of rank/status no one has the right to just trash other people's kit

[Turboboy67]

I feel so sorry for you Jim

I hope he pays for all the damage mate, Does look like the wing will have to be replaced

Some people have no respect fella, makes me sick

[dangerousdave]

f**k the sledge hammer use his head!!

truly gutted for you mate, i dont get why anyone would use the wing to jack a car up on tho, what a muppet

[jimmyesh]

Yeah I was so surprised that someone who is a qualified mechanic in the Royal Electrical & Mechanical Engineers could be such a mong when it came to moving a small car!

Pinning down who is actually to blame is not going to be easy as the spaz that moved it was ordered directly by someone else (the Army's great isn't it!? ). I know that if I kick up too much of a stink over this that the boss will just have enough and get me to find somewhere else to keep my car (not a bad thing at the moment though! ).

I can't get there during working hours until a week on Thursday but, like I said, I have some good mates there fighting my corner before I get back and go ballistic on someone!

[dangerousdave]

well if you do keep it there you will have to leave a key in the workshop somewhere to prevent it happening again, but that said why didnt someone go and get the key from your mrs as mit would be 1000 times easyer than jacking it up, esp if your handbreaks on!!!!

anyway good luck in finding the baxtered who did it, and getting to the bottom of it mate.

[allinking]

I feel for you mate know how it feels as it happened to my car got a call by my ex to say she made a small dent on my car wasn't till a week later got to see the nice crease in my newly painted tailgate

[Ruishy1]

that is fudgekin bang out of order , i hope you get enough compensation to get the car back up to its glorious standard

[HCS PIMP]

shotgun his pride and joys off and blame it on friendly fire

its rediculous people dont know how to jack up a lowered car possibly use the wishbones ??? doooohhhhhhh

[FRST SILVER]

no need for it mate..

and like you said your missus was on the seen within minutes with the keys.. ( why not wait )

[Capri]

Bloody hell mate, that's fudgekin shocking. Really sorry to see this. Hope you can get to the bottom of it and you get the compensation from the complete fucktards who did it.

[jimmyesh]

Been into work today and left a note on the computer belonging to the boss of the lad (Private NumbNuts) that did it with my phone number on, asking him to get the guy to phone me ASAP. I have to be back up in North Yorkshire tonight so relying on my mates back in the workshop to help me out.

The keys were left where my wife works as my lads know to get them from my her (she works 800 metres away from the workshop) should it need moving. My blokes were already on the case getting my wife to bring the keys (to get the steering lock off) when these cowboys from another department came and caused chaos!

Had a look under the car today, thankfully no damage there...

[knuckles]

such a shame to see this damage from sheer stupidity.
the wings are so fragile. i almost dented mine from polishing it once.

why couldnt your sgt wait for the keys instead of letting these mongs loose on it ???

i was gonna say it may push out but im 99% sure it would leave a crease of some sort.

[m3matt]

i live in colchester, i have a drive worse comes worse if you dont want or cant get your car stored at your place. piss take when ppl do stuff like that

[escortbreakers.co.uk]

mental project

[jonyb4]

agh, nut the baxtered man, let him know how it feels!

sorry to ehar this, im sure you'll get it sorted with his compo money though

[jimmyesh]

Work have been in touch with me - a good friend of mine went and told the bloke in charge of the workshop (Sgt Major) about the damage but he just went nuts and told my mate to get out after saying that it's HIS workshop NOT mine so he doesn't give a fcuk if my car gets damaged on military property!


Some good mates have tried pulling the dent out but I don't hold out much hope of it looking too great... For now cosmetics will have to wait as I want the car up and runnning first then re-direct funds back to the bodywork.

Cheers again for the kind words

[Ruishy1]

doesnt matter what property its on, damage is damage mate, and its not HIS workshop, he mearly runs it, its belongs to the military, the guy sounds like a right 'conquering device'-end jobsworth

[jimmyesh]

doesnt matter what property its on, damage is damage mate, and its not HIS workshop, he mearly runs it, its belongs to the military, the guy sounds like a right 'conquering device'-end jobsworth

Cheers mate, your words echo both mine and those of my friends at work. I haven't had the "pleasure" of meeting that bloke yet but I will be visiting him next week... Rank doesn't come into it when it comes to personal kit - I've invested a hell of a lot of time, effort and money in this car - plus I was given permission by pretty much the whole "top corridor" to keep it there as that bay is unused.

Time to get it finished and get it out of there