Neck failure affecting servicing

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Wed 5 Aug 2009 17:06
Neck failure affecting servicing - Enteratu Moteurs
Cars serviced today? None, because our necks have `gone` due to laying on our backs and working in the `horizontal position` yesterday.
Our head Mechanic is having to be fed strawberries in bed by his wife as he cannot support his own head.
A good job done yesterday though on a thoroughbred motor requiring a full rustproofing and oil and filters.
We will be closed until friday lunchtime and will then open for `valve springs every 20,000` type services. (and oil filter polishing)

What do you want at services? we are always ready to fit personal preferences into the manufacturers schedule.

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Wed 5 Aug 2009 17:19
Neck failure affecting servicing - Lud
Stiff neck from contortionist stuff doing brakes and awkward oil filters familiar to many EM... also barked knuckles and all that toxic dust and oil rubbed into the cuts, mais oui...

Did you see an inverted poney on ze sump of that thoroughbred you were giving the old grease treatment to? Une 3CV peut-etre?
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Wed 5 Aug 2009 18:49
Neck failure affecting servicing - Enteratu Moteurs
It was an `umble box cart of a wagon m, Lud... Itself not much advanced from the donkey of France - perambulating Crecy`s flint highways.

Rust not ye `umble wagon
Tho..

..cough..
A car motored past our garage and was booked for speeding in a mobile radar trap. cameras recorded all onto a permanent data base and the driver said it was the manufacturers fault that they had been lured into the driving seat by the red metallic paint.

Our advice in these situations is to form a mental image of brake lines slowly rusting until they look like a well chewed stick of root liquorice.

Edited by Enteratu Moteurs on 05/08/2009 at 18:49

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Wed 5 Aug 2009 18:36
Neck failure affecting servicing - Bill Payer
head Mechanic


Is that the same as a brain surgeon?
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Wed 5 Aug 2009 18:36
Neck failure affecting servicing - Pugugly
Surely it should be 'orizontal ?

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Wed 5 Aug 2009 18:58
Neck failure affecting servicing - bathtub tom
I remember being in bed and fed strawberries by a young lady but..................!

Oh my dickie ticker!
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Wed 5 Aug 2009 19:18
Neck failure affecting servicing - the swiss tony
Too much wine drunk at lunchtime??
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Wed 5 Aug 2009 19:31
Neck failure affecting servicing - Enteratu Moteurs
Pierre (who serviced through WW2) always tries to do the tricky work - such as spanner tightening sump nuts- before our 3 hr lunch break
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