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Post by tyrednexited on Apr 20, 2020 12:44:48 GMT
Well I've rolled a Metro off an M40 embankment and lived. Bruised knee. ....well, if we're going for bragging rights, I've rolled and written-off a motorhome, 4-up, on a French motorway..... As you were!
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Post by Humph on Apr 20, 2020 13:11:20 GMT
Whoa whoa whoa, what? This has so much more potential than my ever so slightly, more or less invisibly dinged alloy...
Prepare for mucho incoming... 😎
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Post by tyrednexited on Apr 20, 2020 13:16:06 GMT
Whoa whoa whoa, what? This has so much more potential than my ever so slightly, more or less invisibly dinged alloy... Prepare for mucho incoming... 😎 ....aye, but you claim to be a driving god!
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Post by Humph on Apr 20, 2020 13:19:32 GMT
"Claim" would imply that it was debatable. I'd say it was more of a statement of fact... 😎
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Post by tyrednexited on Apr 20, 2020 14:08:44 GMT
"Claim" would imply that it was debatable. I'd say it was more of a statement of fact... 😎 I was going to use the word "pretend"......
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Post by Humph on Apr 20, 2020 16:51:06 GMT
Look, you don't need to be embarrassed about your camper van accident, lots of drivers have accidents, admittedly not necessarily as big or dramatic as that one, ( wow that was a doozy eh? ) but y'know, bad stuff happens to lots of people.
I think it's good that you're ready to share. It's obviously been difficult or we'd have known about it before now, but I guess it's never too late to cleanse your conscience of such a thing.
We are here to support you and offer constructive and positive commentary as always...
😜
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Post by tyrednexited on Apr 20, 2020 18:27:56 GMT
....and this years Nobel prize for plumbing goes to.......
.....Kevin.
He suggested that the internal workings of a Honeywell 3-port valve could be bought as a replacement part, and this would allow repair without removing the valve body from the pipework (the bit with the recalcitrant compression joints on my Sunvic valve).
You can't buy the internal workings for my valve, but over the last day or so I've become increasingly convinced that the new valve could donate its innards as a transplant.
I found the odd picture of a Honeywell valve, and it appeared that the internals were simply retained by a plate through which the spindle passes, which is screwed by retaining screws to the top of the valve body, and sealed by an "o" ring. The more I looked at the Sunvic valve the more I thought the basic design (if not the internal mechanism) was similar. (I actually designed a few valves, albeit on a larger scale, almost 50 years ago at university).
I was going to drain down and disassemble the existing valve in situ, just in case that broke it, but I became so convinced, I took the new one apart instead.
Four screws out, lift the plate off, and it was very similar to the Honeywell, but with a larger sealing rubber diaphragm.
Isolated all the radiators, did a partial drain down, removed the internals of the existing valve and swapped the new one in. Tightened up, refilled and opened the radiators, and Robert is indeed your Mother's brother.
It's a pain isolating radiators and draining down, but the thought of not having to remake the compression joints kept me going. I couldn't see anything much wrong with the bits I took out, but as I've already said, if I manually forced closure using the "wrong" paddle on the old mechanism, it didn't leak back - neither does the replacement in normal use.
I'm very relieved (and have learnt something about easily fixing valve failures).
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Post by Deleted on Apr 20, 2020 18:44:46 GMT
I've rolled and written-off a motorhome, 4-up, on a French motorway..... Surely it would have been cheaper to pay someone to empty the chem toilet than write the whole van off. How many tutting French folks did it take to sort that out and get you off the autoroute ?
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Post by tyrednexited on Apr 20, 2020 18:58:54 GMT
The French involved in sorting things out were, all of them without exception, charming and helpful. It was an interesting logistical exercise getting home, and then back again to pick up all the belongings and contents. My insurance company (CIS at the time) were also magnificent, and arranged a new-for-old replacement which we got in a couple of months. (The original was actually recovered to the UK and put back on the road - I had correspondence with the person who salvaged it - wouldn't have fancied it myself). You can learn a lot from, for example writing a motorhome off, or even hitting a bus - it adds to one's life skills and experience. Much better than pretending to be a driving god, and then having to agonise for years because you've just scraped a wheel and proven that you're not......
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Post by Deleted on Apr 20, 2020 19:02:16 GMT
The opposite of driving god here is Frau am Steuer, there are a lot of videos.
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Post by Humph on Apr 20, 2020 21:20:19 GMT
I guess you used the "smug" emoji because you couldn't find one that represented straw clutching T&E? 😅
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Post by tyrednexited on Apr 20, 2020 21:37:41 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Apr 22, 2020 23:12:12 GMT
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Post by dixinormus on Apr 23, 2020 5:06:39 GMT
SWMBO’s car has sat in our garage for 4 weeks and we haven’t even started it. Going to park it on the drive at the weekend and convert the garage in to a gym for winter! Might buy a car cover for it, it ain’t going anywhere for the foreseeable future 😬
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Post by Alanović on Apr 23, 2020 7:24:33 GMT
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