Inaugural run of the SA RX-8 Club
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Inaugural run of the SA RX-8 Club
So the newly formed SA RX-8 club had our first run on Sunday. It didn't REALLY go as planned though.
Our plan was to run from the Eastgate shopping centre in Johannesburg to the Hartbeespoort dam about 150killometers / 94miles away. We got about 30km / 19m in to the run when Phat8's accessory belt snapped...
Our plan was to run from the Eastgate shopping centre in Johannesburg to the Hartbeespoort dam about 150killometers / 94miles away. We got about 30km / 19m in to the run when Phat8's accessory belt snapped...
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irq5's Wash
The morning started out for me with a 5:30am car wash. It was all good until I got quite a fright when I heard a neighbors car handbrake creaking behind me and saw the car rolling out of it's parking bay. It stopped luckily but that's still not something you want to see first thing in the morning...
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The Breakdown
So, from there, it was on to the highway and about 30km / 19m out, doing about 200km/h / 125mph
Phat8's belt snapped - brought our trip to an abrupt halt. But we got a chance to see the highway from a new Angle...
We got his 8 towed and ended up just going for lunch across the road from Eastgate where we started...
In 3 weeks time, we'll do our second run and hopefully get it right this time
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We got his 8 towed and ended up just going for lunch across the road from Eastgate where we started...
In 3 weeks time, we'll do our second run and hopefully get it right this time
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Originally Posted by DrifterX
why would you be doing 125mh in that weather that is just asking for something to go wrong.
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Was'nt anything out of the ordinary, heat + driving... dealer's collecting the 8 2day. they said they did'nt replace the belt as asked. IRQ5 thanx 4 da pics, just realised never got one of u in there...
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Originally Posted by phat8
Was'nt anything out of the ordinary, heat + driving... dealer's collecting the 8 2day. they said they did'nt replace the belt as asked. IRQ5 thanx 4 da pics, just realised never got one of u in there...
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Phat8 - we need your pics here too. Get cracking
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Originally Posted by 7andan8
Hopefully someone got a pic of the tall blonde on the hood or something! ![Smilie](https://www.rx8club.com/images/smilies/smile.gif)
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Well, none that I can share anyway
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Originally Posted by irq5
Yeah - I am very, very sneaky ![Smilie](https://www.rx8club.com/images/smilies/smile.gif)
Phat8 - we need your pics here too. Get cracking![Smilie](https://www.rx8club.com/images/smilies/smile.gif)
![Smilie](https://www.rx8club.com/images/smilies/smile.gif)
Phat8 - we need your pics here too. Get cracking
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Hey my car had to be towed last week since it had flooded when I tried to start it up on Monday morning. At least I was at home and not on the side of the road, that's a bummer for you guys! I hope the black 8 is back in commission by this weekend.
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Originally Posted by canaryrx8
dang you guys have huge license plates, might as well wrap the whole car with 'em ![Big Grin](https://www.rx8club.com/images/smilies/biggrin.gif)
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our cops here are disabled ...also have a hard time reading ..... so we have to help them with the big number plates ......we such nice people ....
Heck Guys .......200Km/h Was somebody chasing you ? a blind cop maybe .......
Well all safe none the less ...Must say my Yellow would have made your pics much more colourfull hee hee .....
Hey remember , we need calender so I can plan my Life around it ! I'm up end of April so keep it mind ...pls .....
our cops here are disabled ...also have a hard time reading ..... so we have to help them with the big number plates ......we such nice people ....
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Heck Guys .......200Km/h Was somebody chasing you ? a blind cop maybe .......
Well all safe none the less ...Must say my Yellow would have made your pics much more colourfull hee hee .....
Hey remember , we need calender so I can plan my Life around it ! I'm up end of April so keep it mind ...pls .....
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our cops here are disabled ...also have a hard time reading ..... so we have to help them with the big number plates ......we such nice people ....
Heck Guys .......200Km/h Was somebody chasing you ? a blind cop maybe .......
Well all safe none the less ...Must say my Yellow would have made your pics much more colourfull hee hee .....
Hey remember , we need calender so I can plan my Life around it ! I'm up end of April so keep it mind ...pls .....
our cops here are disabled ...also have a hard time reading ..... so we have to help them with the big number plates ......we such nice people ....
![Smilie](https://www.rx8club.com/images/smilies/smile.gif)
Heck Guys .......200Km/h Was somebody chasing you ? a blind cop maybe .......
Well all safe none the less ...Must say my Yellow would have made your pics much more colourfull hee hee .....
Hey remember , we need calender so I can plan my Life around it ! I'm up end of April so keep it mind ...pls .....
![Smilie](https://www.rx8club.com/images/smilies/smile.gif)
No chase by the cops at least - I was chasing Phat8 to keep up
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We'll definitely keep in mind the end of April so that we can all meet up and perhaps complete a full run this time
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