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So ok, something a bit different.
I am very happy with my surf but it letting me down!
The rear window mechanism is such that it won't close the window and increasingly has been getting harder to shut without the assistance of a helping hands. Now I find it doesn't want to open ... there is a bit of a clinking ratchetty sound and one side of the window is trying to move down but the other is stuck fast!!!!
darn and blast!
Now, I suspect you are probably thinking, not to worry PB, you can still get into the rear compartment via the side doors after taking down one of the seat backrests, but I haven't told you what Peter managed to do yet..... Peter's sister is infamous when as a snotty skinny infant upon being asked to get the washing out of the washing machine, she returned with the W/M handle in her grasp and saying it wouldn't open. Well, picture this, she mush have grabbed said handle with both hands and lifted herself off the floor by planting both feet on face of W/M and gritting teeth and PULL! Well, everything turned out ok in the end once we bought a new handle and explained you have to be a patient little bunny and wait till the machine light goes on which means the door is unlocked..... Bless her!
Well obviously Peter a bit miffed at his sister's infamy and he at last had a chance to equal it! It so happens that because of snow, Jo's car is down bottom of hill and JO wants to get going (after having a wonderfully fulfilling time spending a very negative Christmas round our house) so of course everyone is getting slightly rattled and she pcks everything onto the back seat of the SURF then realises no room for 3rd person to sit so insists on putting stuff in back ... but as I said, the window don't have a handle to pull off or open with so our Jo was stuck! Well, she was stuck until our Peter decides the way forward to to take every thing out of the car and fold down the backrest. Dear Peter, a 1st Class honours graduate, a young man of wit, wisdom and obviously going places. Well, he grabs hold of the knob and completely ignores the quaint design of something obviously meant to be pulled no way! Our Peter grabs hold and tries to slide SLIDE the ###### thing back and forth till in his dispairing efforts to get the backrest open he snaps the knob and brings it out with a bit of thread lovingly holding on for dear life .... Bless him!
Now I might add, I didn't know anything about this till wifey returns home. I was in the kitchen clearing up the mess! While they away, I decided to put some coal on the lounge multifuel stove (proudly put in by me just in time for Christmas) and for a little while I was too engrossed to notice that one of our doggies was missing. Upon going into the kitchen I found that Zebedee, a 21/2 year old Border Collie had had a panic attack because he thought everyone had gone and left him ... he can't help it, the poor sap is a rescue dog and we got to him just in time and he nearly as nice as our Mopsey, another rescue dog. Anyway, where was I, in the lounge and Zeb decides he can't cope by himself so he does the one thing designed to get some attention, he helped himself to the whole carcass of a 6kilo turkey, stuffed the ###### lot!!!! Well naturally, it wasn't a good thing to do and by the next day he was suffering a lot of pain and we had to take him to an emergency vets practice and £420 later we were allowed to return at about 1am to collect a very shaggy doggy indeed ... that was last Monday and I am happy to inform you all that he is in full spirits (unlike our Mopsey who managed to get her leg caught in the car door and that cost another£255 - but that's another story
Anyway, I expect you all gone to sleep by now but hey ho it doesn't matter I'm really writing this as some sort of keyboard therapy, you know, let it all hang out! So ....
What chance I can repair the rear window? Or is it a complete refit?
What chance anyone got a spare set of grey seats complete with pulling mechanism? Or if you justfeel like passing the time of day, make a few comments, maybe take the #### out of doggies, go on, feel free .... i need a laugh
"Happy New Year!"
.... Stewart .. all this writing has made me
I am very happy with my surf but it letting me down!
The rear window mechanism is such that it won't close the window and increasingly has been getting harder to shut without the assistance of a helping hands. Now I find it doesn't want to open ... there is a bit of a clinking ratchetty sound and one side of the window is trying to move down but the other is stuck fast!!!!
darn and blast!Now, I suspect you are probably thinking, not to worry PB, you can still get into the rear compartment via the side doors after taking down one of the seat backrests, but I haven't told you what Peter managed to do yet..... Peter's sister is infamous when as a snotty skinny infant upon being asked to get the washing out of the washing machine, she returned with the W/M handle in her grasp and saying it wouldn't open. Well, picture this, she mush have grabbed said handle with both hands and lifted herself off the floor by planting both feet on face of W/M and gritting teeth and PULL! Well, everything turned out ok in the end once we bought a new handle and explained you have to be a patient little bunny and wait till the machine light goes on which means the door is unlocked.....
Bless her!Well obviously Peter a bit miffed at his sister's infamy and he at last had a chance to equal it! It so happens that because of snow, Jo's car is down bottom of hill and JO wants to get going (after having a wonderfully fulfilling time spending a very negative Christmas round our house) so of course everyone is getting slightly rattled and she pcks everything onto the back seat of the SURF then realises no room for 3rd person to sit so insists on putting stuff in back ... but as I said, the window don't have a handle to pull off or open with so our Jo was stuck! Well, she was stuck until our Peter decides the way forward to to take every thing out of the car and fold down the backrest. Dear Peter, a 1st Class honours graduate, a young man of wit, wisdom and obviously going places. Well, he grabs hold of the knob and completely ignores the quaint design of something obviously meant to be pulled no way! Our Peter grabs hold and tries to slide SLIDE the ###### thing back and forth till in his dispairing efforts to get the backrest open he snaps the knob and brings it out with a bit of thread lovingly holding on for dear life ....
Bless him! Now I might add, I didn't know anything about this till wifey returns home. I was in the kitchen clearing up the mess! While they away, I decided to put some coal on the lounge multifuel stove (proudly put in by me just in time for Christmas) and for a little while I was too engrossed to notice that one of our doggies was missing. Upon going into the kitchen I found that Zebedee, a 21/2 year old Border Collie had had a panic attack because he thought everyone had gone and left him ... he can't help it, the poor sap is a rescue dog and we got to him just in time and he nearly as nice as our Mopsey, another rescue dog. Anyway, where was I, in the lounge and Zeb decides he can't cope by himself so he does the one thing designed to get some attention, he helped himself to the whole carcass of a 6kilo turkey, stuffed the ###### lot!!!! Well naturally, it wasn't a good thing to do and by the next day he was suffering a lot of pain and we had to take him to an emergency vets practice and £420 later we were allowed to return at about 1am to collect a very shaggy doggy indeed ... that was last Monday and I am happy to inform you all that he is in full spirits (unlike our Mopsey who managed to get her leg caught in the car door and that cost another£255 - but that's another story
Anyway, I expect you all gone to sleep by now but hey ho it doesn't matter I'm really writing this as some sort of keyboard therapy, you know, let it all hang out! So ....
What chance I can repair the rear window? Or is it a complete refit?
What chance anyone got a spare set of grey seats complete with pulling mechanism? Or if you justfeel like passing the time of day, make a few comments, maybe take the #### out of doggies, go on, feel free .... i need a laugh
"Happy New Year!"
.... Stewart .. all this writing has made me
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