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robert_e_smart
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by robert_e_smart » Fri Feb 05, 2010 9:01 pm
Robert - do you think the car has tried reversing out of the gravel; wouldn't that still be the car finally
braking to a stop in the loose stuff?
Well there isn't a long stretch of gravel for it to have such a mound of it in front of it. Its possible that is it from its final resting palce. I suppose with the right hand side wheel in limbo, all the power would spin out through it anyway.
Glad I wasn't in either car, but would hate to have been in the Es-crote.
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by Dean » Fri Feb 05, 2010 9:05 pm
Tbh Andrew the Transit has a flybywire throttle and it sticks on a daily basis and has done for the last couple of years our other transit done it too and is quite common so i hear, i find a simple way around this problem is the big pedal in the middle of three, climbing into the passenger seat and covering my eyes, not so much.
I think it comes down to people being sued, it is a nastey habit people have got into of late and Toyota probably decided that having 3 million people take them to court and bend them over would be more painful then recalling all the cars.
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by Dean » Fri Feb 05, 2010 9:15 pm
Citroenesque wrote:Foreignsic XMaminations

2 points to that man
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by citroenmad » Sat Feb 13, 2010 12:13 am
Poor little escort, they are becomming rare cars now
The Xm looks like it stood up well, obviously going some when the impact happened.
Peter, what have you been doing with your cars?
Chris.