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    RBRR-1966-2015,stories from the roadside..

    in Round Britain Reliability Run (RBRR)

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    After a bad RBRR in 2006 where lots of things went wrong and loads of things broke or stop working we decided to have plenty of spares (battery, alternator, carbs, fuel pump, distributor etc etc etc etc) for the RBRR 2008 just about everything we could need except......................... a wiper arm that came off the drivers side in the middle of a torrential down pour in the night on the motorway.

    Lands End

    in Round Britain Reliability Run (RBRR)

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    CRAJ wrote:
    Unlike Steve we had a great reception at JOG (although I did witness his team's invisibility!), the breakfast was great with cereal, juice and waitress service for food and tea.
    LE by contrast was v v poor. They are a bigger establishment with probably slightly less people to cater for than JOG and yet you have to queue for half an hour for at best a dissappointment. No cereal or juice either.
    I wish I had thought of the McD alternative at the time, and they have toilets.

    BTW this is in no way a swipe at the CT organisers, the LE hotel have the facilities to make it work, they just haven't imho.

    Colin

    Thanks for the back up colin im sure people thought we was imagining it,we was by the cereal table for 10 minutes waiting for dishes then sat down and were totally ignored even when trying to get their attention then when we was eventually noticed they fetched us tea/coffee there was no milk, and we got toast with no butter or knives to use and when just asked for anything it seemed as though we was asking for more service than others there got without even asking for it.

    steve

    Who's got what to do for 2014?

    in Round Britain Reliability Run (RBRR)

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    Although as usual we have left things late we are ahead of ourselves from previous RBRR's after a mad 3-4 weeks spent on getting the weighbridge bound rolling shell of a toledo put back together, now with tax and MOT and a good run down to the drivers meet we now have just a few things to do  and might even get some chill out time before setting off on friday.
    Today's list consists of changing the rear springs and shockers, sort out both door locks and start to get together the spares we are taking.
    Booked in for tracking on monday.

    steve
    team kinky toledo 68

    Completion Statistics

    in Round Britain Reliability Run (RBRR)

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    Raider wrote:
    I keep stats on this for the club in order to try and help give guidance to entrants on events.

    Not all of this is complete way back in time but this is what I have for RBRR non finishers

    1998      1
    2004      1
    2006      3
    2008      6
    2010      9        7.8% of total starters
    2012      8        8.4% of total starters

    Regarding car types

    2010 3 GT6 failed to finish of 9 entered so 33% failure rate
    2012  4 Herald/Vitesses failed to finish of 10 entered so 40% failure rate

    I have no record of an Acclaim ever failing to complete any event


    So will we have 100 acclaims at the start for 2014 ?

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