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[jayw]

Got a log journey planned tomorrow afternoon, from Basingstoke to Kings Lynn...

Anyone along this route got any severe weather issues / road problems? :

A1 (hatfield - stevenage), A505 (baldock - royston - cambridge), A10 thru Ely to Kings Lynn.

(Double posted to BXC for extra bodies)

[Vanny]

hatfield will be shite, its always shite.

[Bx Bandit]

snow apparently mate. You getting that pikey van?
serious here dude, a mate of my dad's got into trouble towing a van with a bx. Your van looks fairly big and the bx is light as a feather, so take it easy mate

[mickey taker]

see posts on facebook and bxc,

take it easy mate and if you want a rest stop at MK give us a shout

[Philhod]

It`s been snöing all day here, we now have another foot of it ontop of the 3 foot already down and we have it forecast for the next 3 out of 4 days.
At least it`s come up from -25 to -5.
Sme disruption to the trains but everything else is working as normal

[docchevron132]

Bristol's improving, slowly, more fucking snow on Monday though, not that the weather in Brizzle helps you at all..
But yes, take it easy mucker.

[smiffy]

Not looking forward to the -9ºc forcast on saturday...

[jayw]

Well, it's all back in one piece, and very impressed with what we got for our money!

FYI, we didn't take the BX (it failed the MOT), i borrowed a mates Nissan Cabstar but even so, i'm not worried about towing it to cornwall with the BX... It drags lurvely (for a tin shack with tyres).

I'll be back...! Aren't YOU a lucky lot...

Bah! Mintysweet!

[mickey taker]

Bristol's improving, slowly,

yeah it might even be habitable by the next millenium as long as we can nuke it first

[Philhod]

Well done mate, hope it opens up a great 2011 for you.

Snö still at it here and we have another 24 hrs of it yet, then sun and -17!!!
Snow plough has just cleared our track to the main road, once again.
I kid you not. There is over a meter of lying snö now and it`s six ft deep at the side of the roads where the plough has been.
Hej ho!!!Jägermeister here I come.

[docchevron132]

Bristol's improving, slowly,

yeah it might even be habitable by the next millenium as long as we can nuke it first

so true mate..

What the BX fail on Jay?

[jayw]

What the BX fail on Jay?

Ironically, after all the major components i replaced, it failed on the washer jets & number plate lamps...

My own fault really, i told my tester i was gonna be relying on it heavily for the next 6 months so don't do me any favours (like he normally would). He gave it a proper good going over from top to bottom & found absolutely NO issues with it.

Got a good 'un there me thinks!

[docchevron132]

ace, not bad at all then!
You keeping it now then?

[jayw]

Yup, it's towing the pikey mobile!

No sense of getting rid of a good car for the unknown!

[docchevron132]

good call! Excellent news!

[Bx Bandit]

I think you should keep it jay, it's a ruddy goodun I phink!

[Fish_Botherer]

Didn't even know you had doubts about it .... a good 'un is worth keeping. I deeply regret getting rid of mine (though it was unavoidable as i couldn't afford to keep any car going at the time).

[docchevron132]

Are things improving for you now then mate? I do hope so.

[jayw]

Didn't even know you had doubts about it .... a good 'un is worth keeping. I deeply regret getting rid of mine (though it was unavoidable as i couldn't afford to keep any car going at the time).

Never had doubts about the car, it was just the question of whether we were going to: 1) Buy a Motorhome and get shot of the BX. 2) Tow a caravan with the BX. 3) Need something a bit meatier to tow a caravan & get rid of the BX.

Fortunately, the caravan comes well within the legal limits for BX towing so it's staying (just need to weight the fucking car down a bit now)

[mickey taker]

Idid wonder about your caravan to tow car weight percentage , glad its ok , last thing I towed with a bx was a little 1986 avondale pearl argos