Thanks for a great trip

[goingrey]

Gedday All,
Thanks to all our new friends after a great trip to Mt Gambier. And a special thanks to Geoff and Jude for an extremely well organised Meander to the Mount. Jack and I had a ball.
You may be interested to know that the Gristy crew are only just leaving MtG today (Wed) bringing their van home behind a rental because his blue F#%D packed it in on Monday when they were hooked up and ready to drive off. Gristy will need to drive back in a few days (week?) when his car is fixed. 7hrs each way!!!
Meanwhile my 50 year old HOLDEN never missed a beat.
What is it with modern Fords???

Chow,
Brendan.

[urkel1965]

Hi Brendan,
I was leaving on Monday morning and wandered over to Gristy to say goodbye. He said his car had just s%$t itself after reversing it and hooking the van on. He mentioned it could have done it the previous night, not when everything was packed up to go.
I almost felt embarrassed when I hopped in the FX and chugged off into the yonder!!! (Bearing in mind, every time we get into the old cars, there's the potential for something to go haywire...we just pray it doesn't...)
Steve

[Deleted]

Hi Guys

I know i am guilty of taking a swing at certain brands of caravans but it is all in jest .. i think by now you realise that.

I am usually the first to step in and quell and Ford V Holden wars that start up on the forum.
The same old tune... this is a forum about Vintage caravans....
However i cant help but echo the same question that Brendan has asked...
"What is it with these new Fords" ??
January last year i traveled from Newcastle to Goulborn in the HR ute with a trailer load of motorbikes in 40 degree heat.
I passed 3 late model Falcons on the side of the road with steam guysering out from under the bonnet!!

I stopped for one bloke who had his missus and 2 young kids with him. I offered water for his radiator. He replied "What radiator". The plastic top on the radiator had parted from the rest of it.

On the way home we passed another 4 late model fords ... the last combo made me smile and give the old 186 Holden a pat.
Near Gosford i came across a new falcon wagon on a carfloat.. obviously couldnt proceed in the heat so his mate had come to the rescue and loaded the wagon onto a carfloat behind his late model Falc sedan..... Then it suffered the same problem. Smoke and steam from under the bonnet.
I again pulled up to see if i could help.. It appeared that the tow car had blown a head gasket or some other similar problem. It was still running but sounded terrible.

I have since found out that the radiators are crap... well durrrr.. i sorta figured that out.
The ford sixes have 8MM ... yup 8mm ...head studs that tend to snap off while undoing them due to them corroding / electrolysis .
You can by a $125 top end gasket set which the dealers say will last about 12 months....
Or you can buy the super deluxe $250 gasket set that SHOULD last about 3 years.
I think they forgot to mention that all of the above applies until the temperature on the day gets over 28 degrees

Meanwhile Harold Reginald the HR Yoot still has the same radiator full of green juice in it that he had when i left Newcastle a few weeks ago. It went close to boiling a few times towing the van... But didnt.

So... what is it with these new Fords.
Not being nasty here.. in fact Geoff and Jude . and now Gristy and co have my sympathy.

Reddo...
footnote. No new commodores found dead on the side of the road back in january or on the way to and from Mt Gambier??

[MRFJ55]

F i x
O r ;D ;D
R epair
D ailly . ;D ;D

SORRY COULDN'T RESIST !

[atouchofglass]

Found
On
Rubbish
Dump
;D ;D

First
On
Racing
Day
;D ;D ;D

You choose

All in good fun guys

Atog

[willyn]

Hey guys looks like the only ford driver that had no probs!!!!
the old Fairlane performed magnificently
Hi Ho Silva ran cool with air Con even when it was 47 degrees on the Nullarbor Vin Van and all
no probs
We get the old girl serviced every 5000 ks and have never had a moments problem Mechanically
Although we had a fault in the air con coming over which meant we had to switch it off every half hour for a minute to keep it cool apart from that it was fixed in Mt Gambier $150.00
so keep the faith Ford Drivers
S#!t Happens !!!! every now and then

Will

[tinnie]

Hi all,

The broken Ford is in Mt Gambier, we got home yesterday (Thursday) back at work today. Used a rental Mitsusquishi dual cab to get Frankie and the clan back home. (After hooking up a rented Bravo with electrical problems earlier on Wednesday - that's another story ).

Anyway, wont be no problems with crap modern towcar in 2010 - we will be using a vintage towcar - at least they are easier to fix - dont have to replace whole steering column to fix broken ignition.

I will go back some time next week to get the Ford, once fixed.
Thank goodness for RACV total care is all I can say.

Cheers, oh and for the record, the problem that sidelined the Falcon is rare in Fords and common in Crummydores ;D
So no matter what the badge, they all plastic and cast alloy rubbish ;D

No matter, car probs will be forgotten soon, the memories and pics of a fantastic holiday will live on, thanks to everone!!!!

Gristy

Good in a vintvan, better if towed by a vintcar???