I never see overheating cars by roadside

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Sat 17 Aug 2002 15:22
I never see overheating cars by roadside - Andrew Hamilton
The tropical temperatures we are suffering in Essex made me think back when I often saw broken down vehicles with steam erupting. Guess modern cars are much more reliable.
And I have only one puncture in eight years and it was a slow one. I remember them being much more frequent twenty years ago.
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Sat 17 Aug 2002 16:28
I never see overheating cars by roadside - Crombster
Funny you should say that, up in Glasgow we had 'one' particularly hot day a couple of weeks ago and I counted 9 cars within half a mile on the hard shoulder on my way in to the city. Perhaps cars up here are not quite so used to the tropical temperatures that other lucky b*****s are experiencing :)
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Sat 17 Aug 2002 16:31
I never see overheating cars by roadside - Armitage Shanks{P}
Older cars sometimes didn't even have water pumps, used something called a thermo syphon system I think. If you stopped or slowed down the engine was very likely to overheat; there used to be a water supply at the top of Porlock Hill in Devon for those who had boiled up. Now we have electric fans and ones on temp sensitive clutches and I think the problem is long gone.
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Sat 17 Aug 2002 16:39
I never see overheating cars by roadside - Crombster
those asterix make my word look like another 'B' word! Such a picky filter...
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Sat 17 Aug 2002 20:22
I never see overheating cars by roadside - The Watcher
Maybe the cars you have passed have cooled down a little? Have to say I see plenty of cars on the motorways that have overheated.

As for punctures, I seem to pick up every discarded screw \ nail from workman's vans!
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