Glad we had breakdown cover

vehicle recovery on a car/motorhome certainly a worthwhile investment only got to breakdown once and it pays for itself
 
mfw said:
vehicle recovery on a car/motorhome certainly a worthwhile investment only got to breakdown once and it pays for itself
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I have breakdown already with Green Flag, They recovered us when we broke down and took us to the nearest Garage , but they could only source one of the possible parts at fault, so we phoned Green Flag back and they took us home and MH to Garage of our choice. But Getting P------ED OFF with Local Garage where our MH is at because they haven't found fault yet? and only seem to work on it at there leisure. My point was If We wanted to move it to another Garage it will cost us for recovery to do so.
 
Peskyrabbitt said:
I have breakdown already with Green Flag, They recovered us when we broke down and took us to the nearest Garage , but they could only source one of the possible parts at fault, so we phoned Green Flag back and they took us home and MH to Garage of our choice. But Getting P------ED OFF with Local Garage where our MH is at because they haven't found fault yet? and only seem to work on it at there leisure. My point was If We wanted to move it to another Garage it will cost us for recovery to do so.
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Got my old van picked up on back of lorry back home due to a garage failing to do a job properly without breakdown cover would of cost a small fortune although only 60 miles - garage then picked up from my house and redid job properly after a few threats - would of been a lot more problems if i had needed to claim recovery cost as well
 
It seems from reading you are not prepared to spend money on duplicate parts already purchased without a guarantee that the part replaced will fix the problem, I assume then you are not prepared to pay the £35 to £45 per hr every hr, for dedicated diagnosis for as long as it takes.
Im sorry to say you appear to be the Motor trades worst customer, and your own worst enemy, and i bet your not as P****d off as the Garage
 
Trouble with a vehicle that size taking to a garage if you dont pay whatever the cost involved to repair you could very well end up paying for storage space on top of whatever work they have already done unless you can get it home at considerable expense - probably have to bite the bullet irrespective of costs

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That age of vehicle and modern ignition / spark leads and coils are a bad mix.
I work on an ancient petrol engine and fitted Halfrauds new points, leads and coil.
Happened to be dark one night with engine running rough. Looked under bonnet and saw Christmas tree of arcs where leads simply didn't hold the current passing through them! Replaced with quality leads from a classic Mini dealer and problem.solved. same cheap modern leads also burnt out at junction of spark plug fixing to lead interface. Looked fine but snapped in two when I tried to disconnect. That was a Pop and dead engine exactly as you described.
 
Geo said:
It seems from reading you are not prepared to spend money on duplicate parts already purchased without a guarantee that the part replaced will fix the problem, I assume then you are not prepared to pay the £35 to £45 per hr every hr, for dedicated diagnosis for as long as it takes.
Im sorry to say you appear to be the Motor trades worst customer, and your own worst enemy, and i bet your not as P****d off as the Garage
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For your information I asked the Garage to order duplicate parts that had been changed already and try them to rule that out! in case the new ones were faulty. They have not done that and they have now had my MH for a week and a half, If they were too busy then they should have said and I would have taken my MH somewhere else . As regards to not prepared to pay for the diagnostics I already am at £50 an hour .

You have no rights to make comments like that based on assumption when you know nothing about the situation, and if you are a Garage / trader I am glad that I dont have to deal with you if you speak to people like that.
 
Don't know if you have the Carbon "filled" HT leads, if you have, as someone here has already said, it might be worthwhile getting the ones with Copper Wire in them, just a tip, not a criticism.
 
rangitira said:
Don't know if you have the Carbon "filled" HT leads, if you have, as someone here has already said, it might be worthwhile getting the ones with Copper Wire in them, just a tip, not a criticism.
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Thanks for that I will look into getting them changed, and thats why We are all here for help and advice and FUN :D
 
Never mind think of all the fuel you saved getting home on the transporter,:)
 

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