Well, bloody well sod you, then. If we're going to abandon the fantastic future we were creating in favour of icy car action, well, it makes me wonder why I bother going on. I could have just given up the fight with the wheel in the wee small hours of Sunday morning and slipped quietly into oblivion.
It was a cold, clear night, and I was driving home after seeing a couple of gigs in Glasgow. I was hanging a right round a roundabout, clutch down, braking gently when the engine cut out, taking the power steering and braking with it, nearly putting me into the verge. I'm not sure exactly what happened, because I was kind of on autopilot, but I'd been half expecting it to lose grip a bit because it was icy, so for the steering to suddenly become extremely heavy was a shock. I was able to coast down to a side road, then had to handbrake it to stop, turn the alarm on and off to reset the immobiliser and start back up. The car ran fine the rest of the way.
But it sickens me when people drag a sensible thread off topic.
Kenny
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(Sudden Cardiac Arrest would be a bit redundant, anyway. I mean, in medical terms "sudden" is synonymous with "acute," which is the opposite of "chronic." It's not like anyone is in a state of CHRONIC Cardiac Arrest. That's called "dead." The closest thing would be Congestive Heart Failure, which can be either chronic or acute, and if that's something you need to worry about, then your doctor's already told you everything you need to know.) |
