Did you here that noise...
Posted: April 25th, 2015, 11:43 pm
Well our trip to portugal was a great success (I'll post photos in another thread), well till one day before we joined the ferry.
Lisa driving , me asleep in the passenger seat, i turn over and hear a tinkling sound, just at the point Lisa had no power ... oh dear this doesn't look good ..........
So we pull in , open the bonnet and stare at the engine as is traditional, then i have a play, the starter motor goes round but the engine doesn't. If put in gear we can drive it on the starter but don't think we had enough juice for 170 miles to Santander.
So after many phone calls we arrange a recovery truck to santander. We drop the truck off in the port (very helpfull port police) but we cannot stay in the truck so they point us to a hotel. Next morning we wander over to checkin and britany ferries are not pleased with us as we are in the wrong place so another recovery company came to move us 100 metres and then came back to put us on the boat at 8pm
Then we had the fun of explaining this to green flag, that their recovery truck was going to have to go onboard to load us and get us off the ferry, thankfully it was a local firm so they loaded us and then gave us a car to drive home, the truck arrived on the friday
So now to drop it at the garage down the road and see what they say, I suspect cam belt but who knows and what other damage may be done so there may be an l200 for spares or repair on ebay soon
Rich
Lisa driving , me asleep in the passenger seat, i turn over and hear a tinkling sound, just at the point Lisa had no power ... oh dear this doesn't look good ..........
So we pull in , open the bonnet and stare at the engine as is traditional, then i have a play, the starter motor goes round but the engine doesn't. If put in gear we can drive it on the starter but don't think we had enough juice for 170 miles to Santander.
So after many phone calls we arrange a recovery truck to santander. We drop the truck off in the port (very helpfull port police) but we cannot stay in the truck so they point us to a hotel. Next morning we wander over to checkin and britany ferries are not pleased with us as we are in the wrong place so another recovery company came to move us 100 metres and then came back to put us on the boat at 8pm
Then we had the fun of explaining this to green flag, that their recovery truck was going to have to go onboard to load us and get us off the ferry, thankfully it was a local firm so they loaded us and then gave us a car to drive home, the truck arrived on the friday
So now to drop it at the garage down the road and see what they say, I suspect cam belt but who knows and what other damage may be done so there may be an l200 for spares or repair on ebay soon
Rich