Whilst coming home tonight from visiting my Mum, the van started making a very strange noise. Its been in the garage twice, and they could find nothing wrong, except to say it was low on oil. Anyway, Rick decided not to drive it any further, in case it made things worse. We were about two miles from home, and although its along dark lanes, we are not bothered about walking. only thing was, my mum, as usual, had piled us up with food etc, and I had the goats feed, plus all my eggs I had collected today, and the usual stuff I carry about daily. So, we would have been well laden had we walked.
Ricks mate lives two minutes from where we broke down. Rick rang him, and we limped the van there. He is a mechanic, and having looked at the engine, and listened to it, declared it would be sensible to not drive it home. Can we have a lift then? Phil said there might be a slight problem in that because this afternoon they were out in his wifes car, and it broke down and they had to be recovered home. He has never, ever had to call out the breakdown services before. His own 4x4 he could not use to give us a lift, as he had been out in that last night and used all his fuel. He had just enough to get to work in the morning. His teenage sons car is off the road. But he then had a flash of inspiration, and said if his teenage daughter had fuel in her little car, he would take us home in that. Success, it had fuel!!
So, we all piled in the little saxo, with the shopping, my eggs, the goat feed, etc......Phil was a saviour!!
Thank goodness it did not happen earlier, we had been to the tip with a van full of rubbish. I am not sure the saxo would have been quite big enough to put the sacks of rubbish in!!
Just hope its not off the road too long. We have the old Range Rover, but it sups fuel, as we do not use it unless we have to.
Topic: Van broken down.....again. (Read 3518 times)
