Where have you broken down?
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Wasn't my car but I was coming back from a holiday in Tenby with my mum and step-dad at the start of June this year. We took my step-dads car as his dog had to come on holiday as well and my mum doesn't allow the dog in her car.
The car developed a small water leak half way through the week which was patched up and held until the day we were coming home, but we risked it to see how far we could get anyway. Multiple stops and water top-ups later we admitted defeat at Tesco in Carmarthen, where by now it was absolutely bucketing it down with rain. Hour to wait for the AA van to come out which wasn't bad as the Tesco had a cafe. The van showed up, but after 30 minutes he decided he couldn't stop the water leak and he asked for a tow truck to come out which took another hour and a half. Still pouring with rain the tow truck shows up and loads the car and then we get recovered 120 miles back home. Stopped raining as soon as we left Wales. Even worse is the part needed to fix the car only cost £10.
An interesting end to the holiday.
The car developed a small water leak half way through the week which was patched up and held until the day we were coming home, but we risked it to see how far we could get anyway. Multiple stops and water top-ups later we admitted defeat at Tesco in Carmarthen, where by now it was absolutely bucketing it down with rain. Hour to wait for the AA van to come out which wasn't bad as the Tesco had a cafe. The van showed up, but after 30 minutes he decided he couldn't stop the water leak and he asked for a tow truck to come out which took another hour and a half. Still pouring with rain the tow truck shows up and loads the car and then we get recovered 120 miles back home. Stopped raining as soon as we left Wales. Even worse is the part needed to fix the car only cost £10.
An interesting end to the holiday.
In the 1990's sometime. Fast lane of the A102 at the top of the drop into the Blackwall Tunnel going north, during rush hour!
In truth I didn't break down. This was when the traffic lights that stopped overheight vehicles entering were actually at the mouth of the tunnel. At about 0730 one weekday an italian artic had tripped the lights and the traffic stopped at the red. 40 mins later 2 motorcycle police turned up and blocked the road by parking across both lanes 2 vehicles in front of me. The let the cras through the red light to create enough space for the artic to reverse back and then off the slip on the left. Whole thing took about 90 mins. The weather was gorgeous, so not long into this saga I left my transit minibus and was just wandering around talkinig to random strangers (an exceptional situation is the only time this is allowed in London). When the police cleared their bikes to open the traffic I discovered I was locked out of the van! Keys in the ignition, all doors locked, all windows closed.
Bright red I walked down to the officer and explained. 90 mins of rush hour traffic jam behind me and I'd reduced 2 lanes to 1 lane. The recovery truck took another 90 mins to get to me as it got stuck in the same traffic jam. The humiliation was total and I was subjected to abuse by random strangers swearing at me as they finally drove past, and they were somewhat justified even though they didn't know it. I learned the queue grew to over miles at one point. What a complete numpty! Lol
In truth I didn't break down. This was when the traffic lights that stopped overheight vehicles entering were actually at the mouth of the tunnel. At about 0730 one weekday an italian artic had tripped the lights and the traffic stopped at the red. 40 mins later 2 motorcycle police turned up and blocked the road by parking across both lanes 2 vehicles in front of me. The let the cras through the red light to create enough space for the artic to reverse back and then off the slip on the left. Whole thing took about 90 mins. The weather was gorgeous, so not long into this saga I left my transit minibus and was just wandering around talkinig to random strangers (an exceptional situation is the only time this is allowed in London). When the police cleared their bikes to open the traffic I discovered I was locked out of the van! Keys in the ignition, all doors locked, all windows closed.
Bright red I walked down to the officer and explained. 90 mins of rush hour traffic jam behind me and I'd reduced 2 lanes to 1 lane. The recovery truck took another 90 mins to get to me as it got stuck in the same traffic jam. The humiliation was total and I was subjected to abuse by random strangers swearing at me as they finally drove past, and they were somewhat justified even though they didn't know it. I learned the queue grew to over miles at one point. What a complete numpty! Lol
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