The Curious Case Of The Missing Brake Caliper.....

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  1. tcbandituk

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    #1 tcbandituk, Jan 18, 2018
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    Thought this was better in lounge than Bonneville forum.

    Ordered a brake caliper, to upgrade the Bonnie's braking, on Ebay from a guy in Italy.
    He sent it out within a couple of hours via DHL.
    Tracking the parcel it's in the UK at Gatwick the next day.
    The day after that it's in Bristol ready for delivery.

    I wasn't around when they wanted to deliver it so had the delivery date moved to a day later.
    I can see all this on DHL's tracking page.
    Friday passes no parcel.....

    After giving it until yesterday, I rang DHL to see why the parcel was stuck in Bristol for 4 days.

    They rang me back today, the good news is they have located the parcel.
    The bad news is it'll take a couple of days to get to me as it has to come back from Greece ! :eek:

    I hope it had a nice time in Greece......
     
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    #2 Havit, Jan 18, 2018
    You would have thought someone would have put the brakes on that.
     
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    #3 Havit, Jan 18, 2018
    I'm glad you pulled them up on it:p
     
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    #4 TEZ 217, Jan 18, 2018
    STOP !!! - this now silly brake jokes
     
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  5. GaryM

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    #5 GaryM, Jan 18, 2018
    Ahhhh I was wheely enjoying that. Shame to put the brakes on it ;)
    Perhaps it felt that it was too cold here for it and decided to have a holiday in Greece :)
     
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    #6 TEZ 217, Jan 18, 2018
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    SCREECH we should draw this to a HALT :rolleyes:
    if this has flown you should check it for AIR
    brake     down it seems in communication
     
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    #7 stevethegoolie, Jan 18, 2018
    We should DISCus this problem further.:eek:
     
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    #8 tcbandituk, Jan 18, 2018
    Well it stops the thread being brakeing down and pads it out I guess.

    Here's a brake down of where it's stopped on it's journey.

    brake travels2.jpg
     
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  9. TEZ 217

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    #9 TEZ 217, Jan 18, 2018
    Shit Athens
    sorry i'll get me coat
     
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    #10 Tiglet, Jan 18, 2018
    You would hope DHL will get it to you at brake neck speed :eek:
     
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    #11 Havit, Jan 18, 2018
    Perhaps they have a pad out there
     
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    #12 capt, Jan 19, 2018
    There's no stopping some from rushing of to take a brake in sunny Mediterranean, and then crawling bake at snail rate.
     
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    #13 Havit, Jan 19, 2018
    You'll have to pull out all the stops to brake this thread
     
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    #14 tcbandituk, Jan 19, 2018
    Well it's left Greece at 05:45 this morning....
    Any bets as to which country it'll end up in this time ? :p
     
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    #15 steve lovatt, Jan 19, 2018
    Italy :cool:
     
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    #16 tcbandituk, Jan 19, 2018
    I'm hoping it'll be somewhere like the Maldives, then I can offer to pick it up personally (at their expense of course....) o_O
     
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    #17 TEZ 217, Jan 19, 2018
    You'll be lucky probably just have a STOP over in HALTwhistle (N.E, England)
     
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    #18 GaryM, Jan 19, 2018
    Brakestan ? ;)
     
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    #19 tcbandituk, Jan 20, 2018
    This is getting silly now, just found out another parcel I'm waiting for has been delivered by Yodel.
    Only trouble is, I'm in the SE near Reading and it's been delivered by their Goole depot.
    So I've no idea where it is other than it was signed for by a 'neighbour' called O'Neil and is probably somewhere in the North of the country.....
     
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