You couldn't make it up, disaster trip 2024 (97 Viewers)

[chaser]

Ok then garage said between 2 and 4 thousand pounds and the repatriation was alleged to be 7 thousand so after a lot of thought I said ok do it then and they would do it before the date they said.
So that's back tracking a bit as I had got to the car hire in my last post , so nothing was going to happen for at least a week so we got this car and headed for the coast, about an hour later when we were about three miles away I run up a broken kerb and burst the tyre so no spare and Julie gets on the phone to hertz which took about an hour while we sat there in the middle of nowhere.
Anyway eventually another breakdown truck arrives and loads the car up , remember it only needs a new tyre and no mention of what we are supposed to do.
The lorry driver was pretty good though and took us to a street away from our hotel.
Never seen hide or hair of this car or another one since , so we had an hire car for an hour and to be honest this put me right off driving the van back.
Anyway we got this studio overlooking the sea and had 6 days there.

 

[Just smiffy]

The End…?

 

[chaser]

The End…?

Just the start mate.

 

[Mikey RV]

Charlie, can you not just get your camper bought back with the guy your using before they repair it so you can get it home and then fix it saving you a big French bill.

 

[Lenny HB]

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….

We do less than a 1000 in the UK and 8000-9000 abroad.

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[Larrynwin]

You’re doing fine chaser , I’m playing Santa at Christmas and my whiskers are doing just fine

 

[chaser]

Charlie, can you not just get your camper bought back with the guy your using before they repair it so you can get it home and then fix it saving you a big French bill.

If id have known about him at the beginning it would be at home the first day.

 

[chaser]

While we are at canet there's phone calls back and forth, and I have completely gone off driving in France, the garage is supposedly got the parts and going to do it so I don't go back on my word and left them to it then I found out about this other bloke.
So cutting a fair bit out now the insurance offer to pay for us to go home, but they reckon it's going to cost £300 each to get us back and they couldn't really go to that much and yet ryanair from Carcassonne to east mids was only £36 each on telling them this they said they don't do ryanair but if we booked it they would pay us back.
So at this point,just fed up of the whole thing, and book Ryanair online on my phone and get the tickets sent to my phone.
Then , bugger me my phone packed up, couldn't get get my email or the tickets.
So try to get my email sent to Julie's phone, I have the email address and password but what did Google insist on doing but sending a code to my bloody phone that wasn't working.
That's why my messages on here went a bit sparse.
So I have an old phone with a broken screen in the van so got to return to Carcassonne to get my old phone to see if I can get all my stuff back, well managed it and got our flights back on Wednesday.
Right not been on to the garage to see if it's done, but had a bill off hertz for a tyre and for not returning the car with a full tank, how the hell I was supposed to do that when they had took the bloody thing and never saw it again.
Now a new development but not sure if this will come off or not, but my son and his mate say they will fetch it and got on to LV and they are prepared to pay for their flights and taxi from the airport to the garage and the breakdown policy will still be in force for them.
So thinking about that now .
But the top and bottom of it is we are home and the vans still there.

 

[chaser]

Another topic more light hearted since having to use restaurants, we have found there are more serving fish and chips it's more like fish fingers but it's a start