You couldn't make it up, disaster trip 2024

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However I suppose they will most likely break when being used and lots of us do massive mileage over the water.
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But when was the last time your car left you stranded?
For me it was over 40 years ago and up to recently I was doing over 20,000 miles per year. Breakdowns in motorhomes appear to be much more common.
 
ontheroadagain said:
But when was the last time your car left you stranded?
For me it was over 40 years ago and up to recently I was doing over 20,000 miles per year. Breakdowns in motorhomes appear to be much more common.
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To be fair, if the Motorhome was as unreliable as my wife’s car, I would burn it. 😄

I do get your point though, the motorhome is older and the usage sporadic, probably doesn’t help.
 
chaser said:
Wake up Friday 13 lovely morning sun coming over the mountain near the Spanish border where we had been shopping the day before.
Julie actually commented on the date as we were having breakfast but we decided to go to the real sun down on the coast.
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chaser said:
So far so good.
To be continued.......
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This is going to take weeks , it will be worse than waiting for next weeks Beano.and the next Dennis the Menace episode. :rofl: :rofl:
 
Broken down in .... Norway!

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ontheroadagain said:
Reading this thread and a few others recently it is surprising (and quite concerning) to hear that so many people have broken down when abroad. I know we don’t hear about the thousands that don’t break down, but the number breaking down does seem high. There is hardly a week goes by without someone having a problem.
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It’s just how you use your MH. We do 200 miles in the UK each year and 9000 overseas so chances are we are going to breakdown overseas….

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chaser said:
Well, all well and good , the hotel was in a shopping centre sort of place with a couple of restaurants so not too bad.
Then at night I come to take my apaxoban which I am supposed to take every 12 hours , only one tablet left in the package, got some more in the van but that's in a compound that we can't get to till Monday :doh:
So next morning we asked at the desk where the nearest pharmacy was and the bloke there says it's quite a way but I will take you there ,and he did.
Here the doctors dispensing side make such a fuss about having to order them days before I thought there would be no chance but went in and this chemist had them there on the shelf, £65 lighter we were on our way another problem averted.
So read on here from scousebird that there is a market in town on a Saturday so got a Uber and went for a look and what a massive affair that is.
T b c ......
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na, cant be bothered with long drawn out stories!
 
I was thinking of SORNing my van over the entire winter but reading this thread I might change that to every other month and give it a good run and have a weekend away when revenue road legal.

On the subject of the incidence of breakdown abroad my thoughts:
  • There is likely a higher incidence of high mileage MH users on this site than in the general MH community and so a high incidence of reporting.
  • Generally the van chassis that our MHs are built on are reliable if serviced regularly. Irregular use by us does not help!
  • I see more broken down high value cars such as Jaguar and Merc pulled over on UK motorways than "ordinary" cars. Go figure!
  • Electronics seem to be the weak point on many modern vehicles - both cars and MHs
 
Jimbohorlicks said:
This is going to take weeks , it will be worse than waiting for next weeks Beano.and the next Dennis the Menace episode. :rofl: :rofl:
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Much much worse!!😊😊 After all isn’t he a farmer? Milking It!!!:rofl::rofl:

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ontheroadagain said:
But when was the last time your car left you stranded?
For me it was over 40 years ago and up to recently I was doing over 20,000 miles per year. Breakdowns in motorhomes appear to be much more common.
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My 65 plate DS4 had an intermittent electronics fault that meant is started when it felt like it. Turned out to be a fault in a plug in electronic component common in Stellantis group cars. It took an age to trace the fault and required an auto-electrician to identify it. The "new" component was in very short supply and only available on exchange as they were repairing the faulty ones. So much for cars being reliable!!!
 
Right ok, Monday comes Julie rings the insurance folks , to see what is happening , they are still looking for a garage so we say can we fetch some stuff out of the van, sure we will send you a taxi, taxi comes off we go to the compound, taxi goes ,we go in,bloke says vans not here, garage fetched it, but if you hold on a bit we have another lorry going that way will give you a lift.
Hour later we arrive at the garage and get some stuff out, and get told it will probably be a month ,we haven't looked at it yet.
So gets our own Uber back to the hotel and get on to the insurance again , they don't know what's happening but give us two more nights in the hotel.
In the meantime I have been looking on here and other places at how much a breakdown firm would want to fetch it back and was reliably informed , anything up to 7 grand, which we now know was bunkem, but that's another story we haven't got there yet.
Right various wandering about in Carcassonne was getting a bit boring so asked the insurance if we could get a forward to our destination,which was canet plage, yes no problem we will fix up a hire car for you, so no more to do we book a Airbnb in canet, 40 euros a night.
Next day taxi arrives to take us to pick up this car from hertz at the airport.
No payment to hire it but had to put 750 euros on a credit card for damage, full of petrol got to bring it back the same.
Worst is to come but will see if I can do another post in a bit.
Tbc.......
 
Whilst it was happening I think chaser was too stressed to post details. Now he’s back he wants to tell us the details, but it’s a long story & he doesn’t want to make one post that’s pages long & boring to write! I’m interested so will keep looking out for the rest of it!
 
chaser said:
Right ok, Monday comes Julie rings the insurance folks , to see what is happening , they are still looking for a garage so we say can we fetch some stuff out of the van, sure we will send you a taxi, taxi comes off we go to the compound, taxi goes ,we go in,bloke says vans not here, garage fetched it, but if you hold on a bit we have another lorry going that way will give you a lift.
Hour later we arrive at the garage and get some stuff out, and get told it will probably be a month ,we haven't looked at it yet.
So gets our own Uber back to the hotel and get on to the insurance again , they don't know what's happening but give us two more nights in the hotel.
In the meantime I have been looking on here and other places at how much a breakdown firm would want to fetch it back and was reliably informed , anything up to 7 grand, which we now know was bunkem, but that's another story we haven't got there yet.
Right various wandering about in Carcassonne was getting a bit boring so asked the insurance if we could get a forward to our destination,which was canet plage, yes no problem we will fix up a hire car for you, so no more to do we book a Airbnb in canet, 40 euros a night.
Next day taxi arrives to take us to pick up this car from hertz at the airport.
No payment to hire it but had to put 750 euros on a credit card for damage, full of petrol got to bring it back the same.
Worst is to come but will see if I can do another post in a bit.
Tbc.......
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Don't listen to those complaining. Keep the story coming please.
 
I'll do another in a bit but it takes time to get it all back in my head in order but the big theme that runs through this is the absolutely brilliant service we got from lv breakdown insurance, never questioned anything, let us down a bit on the repatriation and we are still on going with that but all the horror stories we get on here are nothing like the service we have had off lv.
 
chaser said:
I'll do another in a bit but it takes time to get it all back in my head in order but the big theme that runs through this is the absolutely brilliant service we got from lv breakdown insurance, never questioned anything, let us down a bit on the repatriation and we are still on going with that but all the horror stories we get on here are nothing like the service we have had off lv.
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Writing things down bit by bit in order means you can get your head round the timeline.
 
Stonemags76 said:
Whilst it was happening I think chaser was too stressed to post details. Now he’s back he wants to tell us the details, but it’s a long story & he doesn’t want to make one post that’s pages long & boring to write! I’m interested so will keep looking out for the rest of it!
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I remember now! Pleased I’ve pieced it together a little in my own head. Didn’t you have a friend with a low loader for £3k or have I miss remembered that?
 
garry55 said:
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Maiden trip to Europe - EGR valve replacement in La Seu d'Urgell, Spain. It's a bit awkward driving in the Pyrenees without one............
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We stopped there for fuel in 1958 yes 1958, the fuel pump contraption consisted of a 5 litre glass jar mounted above the pump with a drain hose. There was a lever on the side of the pump to pump the fuel up into the glass jar.
Can't remember how may pesatas it was1
 

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