The ones who never made it back

yay same here did not want to pay for the petrol really

 

Thought so.
Seriously though, nothing focuses the mind on maintenance more than not having breakdown cover. You tend to be more alert to small changes, eg your gearshift may have got looser/moved further before it finally gave way? If it was loosing a grub screw you would have stopped for a look, retightened with you fingers and driven to Bobs to borrow a spanner all with little disruption to your plans. Just saying.

 

If the 1584cc pops a con rod like I've seen here, on either the T2 or T3, it will get replaced with a T4 engine...no question about it.

 

Heres one of Ruby on a French taxi
Could post more but them be on the PC back in UK.

 

when my folks were away in Italy

 

Bet that was exciting for them!!
Tony

 

Broke down on the way to the Volksworld show back in march, I ran out of petrol when I thought I was running on LPG:-

 

saved you a bit more fuel thou chris

 

Your right, always look on the bright side.

 

Gets on my wick when you run out of fuel (not done it myself but know others who have) and the recovery don't just bring fuel, surely that's much easier and quicker.

What happened with your LPG?

 

The LPG lost its settings, I did ask them to fetch fuel, they quoted the usual health & safety bunkum.

 

I couldn't even bring myself to take a photo of our van on the recovery truck. Just wanted to throw up.

 

Here's our Charlie earlier today, after his drive shaft fell off.

 

Sorry to hear that Wispy... hope you weren't far from home! Is Charlie going to be off the road for long?

 

sorry to hear this, that's a few of us this week with issues then.

No pictures of mine on the AA's big yellow taxi I am afraid, like @75swampy I couldn't bring myself to take the pics, though tbh my mind was elsewhere, but here's the story:
I was enroute to Cornwall when suddenly around Birmingham noticed smoke from the heater so pulled off motorway, noticing a sudden loss in power too, pulled into a petrol station off the A41 an found oil on my fan / housing / fan belt which had dripped down onto the exhaust / heat exchanger - explaining the smoke and discovered that the engine had developed a knocking sound noticeable more on idle and indeed it would't idle properly. Dunno yet what is likely to have happened.

 

£20 for the parts, will hopefully try to repair him myself on Friday. It only happened about 30 minutes from home, and the AA and associated recovery truck were really quick, friendly and helpful. The AA bloke said it was the second one he'd had to look at that day!

 

And.........two and a half hours we had to wait, but at least a nice day for it......it went 'bang' and stopped working

 

Oh no whats broke?

 

I don't suppose I should post on here but I can't find a thread for...

"The ones who never even got there in the first place"

Bloody starter motor