Disaster - car problems

[Firefoot]

Looks like I might not have the 200sx for Le Mans

Anyone got an idea how bad it is?

My brother gave someone a jump start with the 200sx, connected jump cables to the other car, then connected to ours without the engine running. Sparks from jump cables/positive terminal (big spark ) then went to try car and it wouldn't turn over, as if battery was dead. Turned engine off and took jump leads off. Tried again and it started no problem, full power, then a few seconds later it died and will not start at all.

Yellow engine check light is flashing non-stop when ignition on. RAC towed it to Nissan, waiting for them to open tomorrow to find out how bad it is. Reckon I will get it back in time for Le Mans?

If it's not going to be ready then I have a mad rush trying to sort out new graphics for our Primera, the trip won't be quite the same somehow

[S1mon.]

May well have sent a spike to the ECU

Hope you get it sorted asap, only a week (and a bit) to go

[Firefoot]

I'm hoping it was the main fuse which would (hopefully) save the rest of the electrics.

[venom500]

Good luck with the repair! I`m sure your still make it.

[Davi]

had exactly the same thing done by a mate on my old Celica, spiked the ECU as suggested above hope it's not the case for you!

[ntel]

I know how you feel matey. The Radiator in the Tuscan has gone pop, the pod display has gone tits up, and the wifes back has gone kaput all this weekend. TVR Power can sort the car next week, I just hope the doc can sort the missus out.

[firefoot]

The other half has started looking at 911's. Time to hide the credit card me thinks.

[obes]

I've got some trouble too !
have about a week to get this little lot back together !

[Pheedbak]

hmm sounds bad .. someone ran into the back of mine friday night luckily its just a flesh wound requiring 1 new rear bumper ...

[RossC]

Can I join this club as well ?

Gear cable sheared off the linkage on Friday leaving me with a box of random gears to choose from and a smoking clutch !!

[s2k_vixen]

Fingers crossed it will be fixed Debs.

[vetteheadracer]

My Twin Turbo Z06 still is not back from the repair shop so it is looking increasingly likely it won't be going this year atleast the f***ing thing won't breakdown in the Mulsanne car park this year

[Touching Cloth]

Well just to add to the woe, I came home from Goodwood like this yesterday:



Please excuse pic but was taken with phone

Clutch went pop 6 miles from home ....... on the upside, had a bloody good morning blasting through tunnels in London first thing and then a run down to the Breakfast Club meet

Just hoping clutch can be sourced and fitted in time, Cerb clutches have a tendency of running through dry spells when no-one can get hold of them for love nor money. If not I might be stickering up my friends C-Max

[vetteheadracer]

Sorry to hear about your clutch Touching Cloth.....my clutch hydraulics failed in the Mulsanne car park about 1 p.m. on the Sunday of last years race and I had to get the car recovered to a local garage. Had to return to the UK in a Citroen C4

[Touching Cloth]

vetteheadracer said:

Sorry to hear about your clutch Touching Cloth.....my clutch hydraulics failed in the Mulsanne car park about 1 p.m. on the Sunday of last years race and I had to get the car recovered to a local garage. Had to return to the UK in a Citroen C4

Cheers - The chap who sorts my car for me sounded perfectly relaxed about it all so I will leave it with him and just keep my figers crossed. Going with a nice new clutch will be quite good, so in many ways it is far better that it happened here than over there. Did your's get fixed over there or was it trailered back over, I have heard of some horror stories of cars taking ages to get repatriated, equally not sure I fancy letting a local garage do too much work over there.

[firefoot]

It's sort of nice to see I'm not the only one this kind of thing happens to. For a few moments on the weekend I knew what it must feel like to own a TVR as I watched the sx roll away on the back of the lorry

Hope everyone gets their problems fixed in time

[xjsjohn]

i am in the same position .... waiting for the XJS to come back from Germany via relay lorry after a "bump"

Dont think mine will even be back in the UK in time for Le Mans, never mind be fixed

[Davi]

Stupid question time.... what happens with getting a car recovered from abroad? Do you just leave it in the hands of some spanner monkey out there and hope to see it some time in the future, how's it all organised?

Last time I had a failure abroad was in a WW2 landy which had been stripped bare, fortunately the only problem was it lost most of it's gears so we just limped back from the south coast to the ferry in whatever of the few gears it felt like accepting. Not fun, but at least it wasn't a: a nice / valuable car or b: one we worried about damaging further!!!

[xjsjohn]

Davi said:

Stupid question time.... what happens with getting a car recovered from abroad? Do you just leave it in the hands of some spanner monkey out there and hope to see it some time in the future, how's it all organised? Last time I had a failure abroad was in a WW2 landy which had been stripped bare, fortunately the only problem was it lost most of it's gears so we just limped back from the south coast to the ferry in whatever of the few gears it felt like accepting. Not fun, but at least it wasn't a: a nice / valuable car or b: one we worried about damaging further!!!

For me the german garage took one look at the XJS and said "we cannot get parts for this" so back it goes.

I had AA Euro Relay, but as mine is an insurance Job, the insurers have decided that they want to repatriate it themselves.

Takes 7 - 12 days from northern europe usually (longer if its a weekend where there are loads of idiot Brits driving excentric old cars about the continent like us lot)

You tell them where you want it sent and hope for the bast!!!

Rule of thumb seems to be "dont let the locals touch it, unless its a make of car that they are familiar with!!!!

(second time for me, Spa GP last year and half the Ardennes forest decided that it wanted to make a mess of my radiator and hoses after getting dragged onto the motorway by a coach!!! )

[Davi]

sounds traumatic to me!

OK, dunno whats going on here, first time I hit post it reposted my last post, tried to edit and only the first line came out.....

Anyway, was saying, sounds quite a pain in the backside all round. Are there any additional precautions you can take - i.e. if you have standard breakdown cover, can you extend it to ensure the car will simply be recovered back to the UK rather than have foreign mechanics working on it. Personally I do all repair works on cars myself, dont know if I'd be happy with someone doing it abroad.

Edited by Davi on Monday 5th June 12:40