
Was trying to impress my new girlfriend with my Mini... she loves it! Coming home from Ashford one night, it was dark, and I had her, her sister, and her brother in the Mini poodling along. The main beam was busted, so I was gonna high beam it all the way home. Come out of Ashford heading toward Faversham on the A251 in the dark and then...
... the brightest flash you will EVER see!!! ...
Nothing... no light... nothing!! Poo... still travelling 35 miles per hour.
Oddly enough, I used to practice what owuld happen in that kind of event... so on went the indicators, which gave off just enough light to see the edge of the road to pull over :cool:
AA came out... ALL 4 front bulbs (main beam/high beam, and side lights) were blown to kingdom come! So he fitted some new ones, and sent me on my way.
A couple of weeks later, my cars smells of wrotten egg stuffed haddocks... nice! Turns out the alternator was kicking out a trillion billion (28) volts!!! Cooked the battery, and caused the bulb-blowing incident.
Aaaah... it's a Mini adventure


