International Rescue
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Of the AA kind...
Day before we started our journey home, our Range Rover experienced a limp moment. Cleared on restart and no other symptoms or repeats, after checking over we decide it's a Landrover moment..,
Or, not, as we discover the next day, 10 of these moments on the way to our journey break at Le Mans. The car got progressively smokiier as the journey went on, and we limped into our hotel.
A call to the good yellow Samaritans saw it recovered in 45 minutes. Diagnosis, due to the weekend is not available until Monday, at the earliest, I have a suspicion that it may be longer,,,,
We have to get home, so by mid evening they have arranged a taxi, booked trains from Le Mans, and a plane from Paris to Doncaster, all very efficient.
They believe the fault is serious. I think it may be a cracked intake pipe to the turbo. The car is complicated, and I suspect that it won't take much for them to recover rather than repair.
Recovery can apparently take 10 - 14 days. I'm waiting to see what happens at home. No car for that long will be a proper pain in the bum. I think we get a hire car while its repatriated, but for 2 days. That's a serious mismatch.
If they repair it here, they will send me to collect. A bit of a pain, but that's life...
So, impressed so far, Any PH'ers know what happens next....
Day before we started our journey home, our Range Rover experienced a limp moment. Cleared on restart and no other symptoms or repeats, after checking over we decide it's a Landrover moment..,
Or, not, as we discover the next day, 10 of these moments on the way to our journey break at Le Mans. The car got progressively smokiier as the journey went on, and we limped into our hotel.
A call to the good yellow Samaritans saw it recovered in 45 minutes. Diagnosis, due to the weekend is not available until Monday, at the earliest, I have a suspicion that it may be longer,,,,
We have to get home, so by mid evening they have arranged a taxi, booked trains from Le Mans, and a plane from Paris to Doncaster, all very efficient.
They believe the fault is serious. I think it may be a cracked intake pipe to the turbo. The car is complicated, and I suspect that it won't take much for them to recover rather than repair.
Recovery can apparently take 10 - 14 days. I'm waiting to see what happens at home. No car for that long will be a proper pain in the bum. I think we get a hire car while its repatriated, but for 2 days. That's a serious mismatch.
If they repair it here, they will send me to collect. A bit of a pain, but that's life...
So, impressed so far, Any PH'ers know what happens next....
If the car is being repatriated and fixed in the UK then the local garage in France will deliver it to a regional transport firm. Once they have a full load which may be every few days to a week, then the car will be transported back to the UK. Generally the cars will be delivered to a agent/centre in the Uk, but there's the possibility of a foreign transporter to a UK transporter transfer at either the French or UK port.
PositronicRay said:
I seem to remember a PHer had a similar Disco fault in the Alps. He used gaffer tape, it got him home.
If I had tools I might strand a chance. Or if the mechanics worked roadside. But it's the weekend and France is closed.Have to get back so no choice. I suspect a turbo hose, hence gaffa tape might have worked.
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