We packed up yesterday and set off on a planned weekend away. I like to do plenty of homework on where and what we do en-route to our campsite. So I decided we would stop off at Llangollen to look at the Pontcysyllte Aqueduct. All went well to the Aqueduct, then when we were leaving from the car park to get back on the main A road you have a bit of a hill. After a couple of cars had pulled onto the road it was my turn, the Motorhome set off in limp mode with a slight judder. I was able to pull over. I shut everything down & set off again, no joy it was still the same
Turned down a side road and managed to get into a lay-by, that was at 2pm. I have the Nationwide breakdown cover which worked really. It took a couple of hours to get an AA man to me and the guy was fantastic, had a good giggle with him as I predicted he wasnāt going to fix it and sure enough my guess to him was correctā¦ the dreaded injector failure.
Now came the infuriating part, he needed to know where the low loader was going to drop us, I phoned my nearest Ford dealer to see if it could be dumped there (the Motorhome has a 5 year extended warranty which runs out next month) the reply was āno we donāt accept motorhomesā . Next was to ring Ford assist which was all automated service (no human to talk to) and lead me toā¦ the AA so I ended up coming home.
We got transported to āLymm servicesā on the M6 by the first guy (contractor) who couldnāt take us any further then we were picked up by the AA who brought us home which woke all the neighbours at 1am.
Next will be phone calls in Monday to try to get Ford to change all the injectors.
Saga overā¦ for now
Turned down a side road and managed to get into a lay-by, that was at 2pm. I have the Nationwide breakdown cover which worked really. It took a couple of hours to get an AA man to me and the guy was fantastic, had a good giggle with him as I predicted he wasnāt going to fix it and sure enough my guess to him was correctā¦ the dreaded injector failure.
Now came the infuriating part, he needed to know where the low loader was going to drop us, I phoned my nearest Ford dealer to see if it could be dumped there (the Motorhome has a 5 year extended warranty which runs out next month) the reply was āno we donāt accept motorhomesā . Next was to ring Ford assist which was all automated service (no human to talk to) and lead me toā¦ the AA so I ended up coming home.
We got transported to āLymm servicesā on the M6 by the first guy (contractor) who couldnāt take us any further then we were picked up by the AA who brought us home which woke all the neighbours at 1am.
Next will be phone calls in Monday to try to get Ford to change all the injectors.
Saga overā¦ for now