It’s The Latte Latte Delta Tea Break 2018

[Gerard C]

That's what happens when you drink and drive…

[PeterMorley]

Originally Posted by John Elwin

Lucky you! However, if you are planning on going via the M11, best take an off-roader, the road is in a dreadful state & even makes Belgian motorways look good. It is riddled with potholes, some of quite serious proportions. I went to Norfolk last week & am amazed I didn't ruin any tyres.

Also, avoid the Stansted Services. It took us 15 minutes to get from the car park back to the motorway, & that was on a Monday afternoon!

That's worth knowing - just fitted new shock absorbers and due to collect new summer tyres today, would be a shame to ruin them so quickly!
Will be heading straight back from Norfolk to Eurotunnel on Monday and was wondering whether to take the M11 or the A12.

[John Elwin]

Originally Posted by PeterMorley

That's worth knowing - just fitted new shock absorbers and due to collect new summer tyres today, would be a shame to ruin them so quickly!
Will be heading straight back from Norfolk to Eurotunnel on Monday and was wondering whether to take the M11 or the A12.

It's a very long time since I've driven the A12, so can't comment. The M11 really is in a bad way - presumably in the wake of the winter weather - as Mike has also confirmed. At one point I swerved to avoid one particularly large hole I spotted in time, only to land in another!

Norfolk will of course be wonderful, once you get there! Enjoy the trip.

[Mike Bell]

I don’t think there is anything to recommend the A12! I can imagine it will have faired worse than the M11.....

Here’s a question for those based en France- what are the police escorted convoys of dark blue unmarked rigid trucks? Nuclear waste, gold, loads of €, or.....

[John Elwin]

Originally Posted by Mike Bell

I don’t think there is anything to recommend the A12! I can imagine it will have faired worse than the M11.....

Here’s a question for those based en France- what are the police escorted convoys of dark blue unmarked rigid trucks? Nuclear waste, gold, loads of €, or.....

Sorry, can't help Mike, never seen one of those.

[gary396]

Originally Posted by Mike Bell

Here’s a question for those based en France- what are the police escorted convoys of dark blue unmarked rigid trucks? Nuclear waste, gold, loads of €, or.....

Iain’s kwasonts?

[John Elwin]

Originally Posted by gary396

Iain’s kwasonts?

Not the sort of dough Mike was thinking of!!

[midgetman]

Migrants being taken from the southern coast to Calais for onward smuggling to England

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[Mike Bell]

Some good answers there, but doubt any correct! Although Max could be right, of course....

It’s your lucky day when the matrix signs announce that due to a prang the Autoroute is closed and all traffic is being taken off at the next junction....... and it’s the one you were due to exit at anyway!

[John Elwin]

Originally Posted by Mike Bell

Some good answers there, but doubt any correct! Although Max could be right, of course....

It’s your lucky day when the matrix signs announce that due to a prang the Autoroute is closed and all traffic is being taken off at the next junction....... and it’s the one you were due to exit at anyway!

Presumably you are not between Lille & Dunkerque - that's been closed for a while following an accident involving two minibuses full of disabled youngsters. Quite a few injuries...

Did you find some "cheap" fuel, Mike?

A very pleasant 24 degrees here.

[Mike Bell]

Other end of France John.... It has to be serious for French to close an Autoroute.

Carrefour fuel here €1.389, so still cheap compared with €1.614 I spotted in a services!

[Gerard C]

In fact we close any autoroute each time big dark blue trucks are in the neighborhood. Nobody knows why, its a kind of coutume But if we are sure it could put any english trucker in trouble, the autoroute is twice closed!!!!
And vice versa!

[Mike Bell]

Originally Posted by Gerard C

In fact we close any autoroute each time big dark blue trucks are in the neighborhood. Nobody knows why, its a kind of coutume But if we are sure it could put any english trucker in trouble, the autoroute is twice closed!!!!
And vice versa!

I was travelling in the same direction as one of those convoys a year or two ago, and the ‘flic’ (is that correct term?) vans had great fun leapfrogging the convoy in turn, blocking the next slip road, waiting for it to pass, then catching up again! Some strange custom- definitely!

[rogerwills]

Welcome, rogerwills.
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Wow.....

[MGDavid]

Originally Posted by rogerwills

Welcome, rogerwills.
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Wow.....

been busy?

[Mike Bell]

Originally Posted by rogerwills

Welcome, rogerwills.
You last visited: 31 Jan 2017 at 22:15

Wow.....

Steady on Roger, it was two years before that!

No change- as you probably gathered.......

[delta]

I could get used to this way of travel £69.00 to fly back to Hockenheim . 😀. Happy days

[Gerard C]

Yep "flics" as cops works with gendarmes and policiers. Not really and insult.

[Peter Mallett]

Anybody watching Cunk on Britain? Very clever TV. The experts do well to play along.

"Of all the Romantic Poets, which one was Ron?".

"Er....?"

"Well he signs every poem By Ron."

[delta]

Water Weter . How does it work . I’ve had a bottle in the truck for donky years . Used it today and it brought temperature down by a good 10 degrees .

[VIVA GT]

Originally Posted by delta

Water Weter . How does it work . I’ve had a bottle in the truck for donky years . Used it today and it brought temperature down by a good 10 degrees .

I think it just makes the water less dry...

[bauble]

Originally Posted by VIVA GT

I think it just makes the water less dry...

.... and 10 degrees colder, it even works on DONKEYS

[VIVA GT]

To continue from my previous post on this (sorry, I couldn't nresist a bit of Friday Flippancy!)...
If I remember from reading the 'buff' about that product about 25 years ago, it's supposed to alter the structure of the coolant to increase the thermal efficiency (for example, when compared to something like dry air, the treated water is effectively even wetter). this enables it to carry more heat away from the engine, and then tranfer more of that heat away from the coolant in the radiator. We certainly found that it worked well in a Group A RS500 in the heat of Malaysia!

[GORDON STREETER]

Originally Posted by delta

Water Weter . How does it work . I’ve had a bottle in the truck for donky years . Used it today and it brought temperature down by a good 10 degrees .

I do know a bit about this as I was sponsored by a firm that supplied it amongst other stuff.
It lowers the surface tension of the water and makes a better connection between the coolant and the engine parts.
I must admit it does work however don't leave it in there too long as it does corrode metal easier than plain water.
Right I'm off down the local beach bar
Just remembered something, I was at a oval circuit meeting years ago when I was racing Hot Rods and there was banger racing on at the same time, a bloke in an old Rover put a drop of Fairy Liquid in the rad that was actually leaking and I asked what he was up to, he said the engines don't get so hot !
Thinking about it, it probably did the same thing as soap does lower the surface tension and was a dammed sight cheaper !!!

[delta]

Thanks Gordon . That’s interesting about the fairy liquid . Enjoy the beech