feckin council, feckin pothole's feck feckity....

[Rambo]

I know where you were John

Near the Quirang on Skye ??

I bet it left a nasty taste in your mouth but the fresh scallops and white wine will have anesthetized your anger

[John_W]

First prize to Saltire. Quiraing it is.
Two fantastic days of weather in Skye, the likes of which I probably will never see again, and a pothole stops me going on one of the classic walks in Skye.

Thanks for the link - I will investigate.

Second prize to Rambo -just too late!

John

PS: now safely home.

[Rambo]

OK, he beat me by 3 minutes but I was typing my reply as he was sending his

And I am still on dial up not super fast broadband like they get in Eeeeengeeeerlandshire

[Rambo]

Did you have to skip Mrs Fish's fish or did you go to Applecross before Skye ?

[John_W]

Over the Lecht to Glenfinnan on Tuesday, ferry from Mallaig to Armadale on Wednesday then on to Applecross via Eilean Donan and Plockton. Scallops and Talisker, then back to Skye on Thursday in fantastic weather. Just under 600 miles. The trip was only spoilt by a pothole.
(Mrs Fish is looking fine, and her hotel is as friendly as ever. But, my gawd it busy.)

[Rambo]

Hope you didn't drive past the Plockton Inn until you'd had a few swifties. It would have been rude not to

PS you need to go to Applecross in December John. Nae tourists and you can have the Applex Inn to yourselves. 25 years and counting

[Elanlover]

I need to find a spacesaver spare which will fit over PNM brakes!John

Have a look at this post. Somewhere it talks about which model year of Honda has the appropriate wheel.

Works well for me and I have slightly larger calipers too. Still, it will only fit over the rear calipers meaning that if you have a flat on the front you'll essentially need to change two tires. The centre bore needed to be enlarged ever so slightly which I had done at a local machine shop and it needs to be slightly deflated to fit in the well that the old one fit in. Keeping one of those compact cigarette lighter powered tire inflaters is required but no big deal.

[Saltire]

And I am still on dial up not super fast broadband like they get in Eeeeengeeeerlandshire

Oh for the days of Prestel . . . (Strokes long white beard)

Hope you didn't drive past the Plockton Inn until you'd had a few swifties. It would have been rude not to

Know the Applex well, but never tried this. Not to self: Plockton in next time I’m away north.

[Saltire]

I need to find a spacesaver spare which will fit over PNM brakes!John

Have a look at this post. Somewhere it talks about which model year of Honda has the appropriate wheel.

Works well for me and I have slightly larger calipers too. Still, it will only fit over the rear calipers meaning that if you have a flat on the front you'll essentially need to change two tires. The centre bore needed to be enlarged ever so slightly which I had done at a local machine shop and it needs to be slightly deflated to fit in the well that the old one fit in. Keeping one of those compact cigarette lighter powered tire inflaters is required but no big deal.

What diameter is your wheel? Is this it?

[Rambo]

And I am still on dial up not super fast broadband like they get in Eeeeengeeeerlandshire

Oh for the days of Prestel . . . (Strokes long white beard)

Hope you didn't drive past the Plockton Inn until you'd had a few swifties. It would have been rude not to

Know the Applex well, but never tried this. Not to self: Plockton in next time I’m away north.

Jonathon - its either the Plockton Inn or the Hotel. The one right on the main street anyway. Palm trees, cold beers and the sea lapping at your feet

Another good hostelry to try is The Old Forge at Inverie. Small ferry from Mallaig. I can guarantee that if you can get an M100 in it will be the very 1st time on its 29 year history

[John_W]

The Plockton Hotel - it's the dark brown one on the left of the picture. Between two white buildings, with a couple of palm tree things in front of it.

[Elanlover]

What diameter is your wheel? Is this it?

Mine looks slightly different but close. I suspect they change the wheel from time to time based on whatever they source. I'm not home right now but when I am I'll see if I can find the original receipt. If I recall, I had to google for the specs since most of the listings on ebay didn't show them.

[John_W]

Elanlover,
If you can give me the exact specs of the spare wheel that fits your car, I will try to get one.

A couple of extra pics -
Close-up of Plockton Hotel
The Storr

[Saltire]

And I am still on dial up not super fast broadband like they get in Eeeeengeeeerlandshire

Oh for the days of Prestel . . . (Strokes long white beard)

Hope you didn't drive past the Plockton Inn until you'd had a few swifties. It would have been rude not to

Know the Applex well, but never tried this. Not to self: Plockton inn next time I’m away north.

Jonathon - its either the Plockton Inn or the Hotel. The one right on the main street anyway. Palm trees, cold beers and the sea lapping at your feet

Another good hostelry to try is The Old Forge at Inverie. Small ferry from Mallaig. I can guarantee that if you can get an M100 in it will be the very 1st time on its 29 year history

IIRC there are effectively no roads on Knoydart, so I’m not sure what I’d do with it when I got it there. Drive up to the top of Ladhar Bheinn, maybe And if they dropped it into Loch Nevis, it would still be going down a week next Wednesday

Sounds like I’m planning my own version of the NorthWest 500 next summer

[lotusflasherman]

I need to find a spacesaver spare which will fit over PNM brakes! John

You mean they don't fit ?? Can't see why ... must be bad design .

I increased my rear disc diameter commensurate with the increase in front diameter when I fitted a HiSpec set up. They've gone from 236mm OE to 264mm but I was very surprised, in fact amazed, that the spacesaver still fitted over them.
Didn't expect that ..

264x10 nsr.jpg

spare on 264.jpg

It won't fit at the front but I'd always swap a good rear onto the front and put the spacesaver on the rear anyway...

Have you tried the spacesaver with a wheelspacer? If it works I'd fit it permanently to the spacesaver rim rather than 'juggle' at the side of the road. (Much easier with studs)

[GeoffSmith]

What’s most amazing is that nobody has hit a pothole in all that time. (Or maybe nobody apart from somebody else from Paisley could understand Stevo’s captioning.)

I blame the SNP.

[lotusflasherman]

Huge potholes round the M25, particularly between J16 & J17 so they put speed limit at 50 MPH and show "Report of debris in road" on the gantries. I guess "Potholes due to lack of maintenance" is not one of their options.
Van went in one and threw up a rock ... lucky I had my headlights on or it might have cost me a windscreen..

headlight.jpg

Going to be chaos on the M25 when they try to fill them. I sat for 30 mins on the M40 while men in High Viz (below the gantry) filled a pot-hole considered too dangerous to leave ... 'FKK' was quite similar to the word I used when they stopped us, so nearly got through. Boy, was there a queue behind when we set off but a lovely clear road for miles ahead ..

m40.jpg

[Rambo]

... 'FKK' was quite similar to the word I used when they stopped us.....

Was it Feckin' Kouncil Kuntz ??

[Elanlover]

Elanlover,
If you can give me the exact specs of the spare wheel that fits your car, I will try to get one.

I can't seem to find the receipt - sorry!

However, the reason I chose that wheel was because I googled for bolt patterns, 15 inch space savers, etc. and managed to come across one that would fit. The seller was kind enough to take some measurements and I decided to gamble on it which worked out in the end. I don't have access to the boot right now but I'm pretty sure it looks like this.

NEW-HONDA-CIVIC-15-Space-Saver-Spare-Wheel.jpg

Here's two on ebay.

https://www.ebay.ie/itm/Honda-Civic-Spa ... SwklBasOmg

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/282975335661 ... rmvSB=true

[John_W]

Blair,
Thanks for looking. Armed with your photo and info, I might have to take a gamble also.

I asked at the local tyre place today about straightening my dinged S2 alloy, and they weren’t hopeful. They pointed me in the direction of a very expensive wheel refinisher near Aberdeen which I have tried to avoid in the past on grounds of cost.

John