leon
11-05-2012, 03:49 PM
Hi guys, well today could have been better, :sadeyes: as most of you know we are cursing through the outback now toward Darwin, West from Townsville, and to date all has been well.:) :)
Well today made up for all the good days we have had all in one hit. :sadeyes:
Leaving Charters Towers, a road train put a rock right between my eyes on the windscreen, :mad2: yep you guessed it, it is stuffed, and it was only replaced after our last trip, OK that's life along these roads i figured. :shrug:
Oh it gets better than that :thumbsup: about 30 kilometers up the road we stop for a drink and i walk around the other side of the van and nearly have a heart attack :eyepop:one tyer is completely gone, totally shredded :eyepop:
I did not even notice that it had gone, as the second wheel carried the weight all that way, could have bee for 30 k's :shrug:
Ok that is life i say to myself it is only a tyer and one can expect a flat every now and then :rolleyes:
So I promptly change it and away we go, for another 40 k's or so and i look back in the mirrors and see smoke pouring from the opposite side of the van, yep you guessed it again, another shredded tyer. :eyepop:
Well that is all well and good but i have no spare, as it is shredded as well, so i have to limp up the highway at 10 k's an hour till i find a place to examine the damage.:mad2:
Anyway to cut a long story short, i had to unhitch, leave Alice with the van and drive 50 k's to a place called Hughenden pay out $700.00 and buy two new tyers :sadeyes: come back and fit them and now being about 4 in the afternoon are ready to go again, however we are just staying free camped here till morning.
So that was our day, hope yours was much better :lol: yea one can only laugh about i guess ;)
Check out the tyers,
Leon:thumbsup:
Well today made up for all the good days we have had all in one hit. :sadeyes:
Leaving Charters Towers, a road train put a rock right between my eyes on the windscreen, :mad2: yep you guessed it, it is stuffed, and it was only replaced after our last trip, OK that's life along these roads i figured. :shrug:
Oh it gets better than that :thumbsup: about 30 kilometers up the road we stop for a drink and i walk around the other side of the van and nearly have a heart attack :eyepop:one tyer is completely gone, totally shredded :eyepop:
I did not even notice that it had gone, as the second wheel carried the weight all that way, could have bee for 30 k's :shrug:
Ok that is life i say to myself it is only a tyer and one can expect a flat every now and then :rolleyes:
So I promptly change it and away we go, for another 40 k's or so and i look back in the mirrors and see smoke pouring from the opposite side of the van, yep you guessed it again, another shredded tyer. :eyepop:
Well that is all well and good but i have no spare, as it is shredded as well, so i have to limp up the highway at 10 k's an hour till i find a place to examine the damage.:mad2:
Anyway to cut a long story short, i had to unhitch, leave Alice with the van and drive 50 k's to a place called Hughenden pay out $700.00 and buy two new tyers :sadeyes: come back and fit them and now being about 4 in the afternoon are ready to go again, however we are just staying free camped here till morning.
So that was our day, hope yours was much better :lol: yea one can only laugh about i guess ;)
Check out the tyers,
Leon:thumbsup: