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My New Yee - haw Pick Up Truck
- Thread starter leeds_182
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Stefan.
ClioSport Club Member
Rob
ClioSport Moderator
How far did it make it before it broke down?
Howell
ClioSport Club Member
172, Crafter, A3
Did you buy it off Dale? I know he's taken it on and off market place a few times recently. Unless hes sold it and you've had it off the new guy.
Bought it off Dale. He’s mortified it broke down but not quite S mortified as me.
After setting off for wales at 5am this morning I just got back, 22hrs later.
The story goes….
Got to the car, looked great, sounded great, drove great, happy so paid the guy and left. The fuel gauge was pretty low, like really really low so enquired where the nearest petrol station was. Unfortunately, there was so little petrol in that I ran out before I got there and had to walk the last 300 metres to buy a can and come back.
Bit s**t leaving it that low on juice but meh, it happens. Anyway, I stuck £80 of Tesco 99 in it and set off. All was good in the good, cruising nice, but then I started having stall issues when coming to a stop at roundabouts. The car would start again straight away but kept happening. Pretty annoying but I tried to manage it as best as I could.
Fast forward another 20 minutes and I’m driving through a contra flow in road works and the car dies and won’t re start, turning over but feels like it’s not getting fuel. I was in one of those free recovery zones and they turned up pretty quick and moved me to a local car park where the RAC man came out.
Nice guy but I don’t think he new what he was on about. As a team we diagnosed the fuel pump. He took the online filter off and we gave it a go and started up like a champ. He said to follow him to see if it was fixed and we got another 5 miles down the road before it conked out again. Still in wales. By this time it was 5pm.
He told me I’d have to be relayed home and fucked off. Another hour past and the RAC rang, explained that the relay process would take best part of 2 days or they could take it to a compound and deliver it in 3-5 days in one trip. I went for that option as by this time I was losing the will to live. They told me they’d get me a hire car and I’d be off.
8pm a taxi turns up and picks me up. I leave the truck in the petrol station and f**k off (it’s probably still there now). The taxi takes me to Cardiff airport to enterprise. There I wait another 45 minutes for enterprise to turn up and they give me this chariot.
Citroen c1. So, I commenced the 4.5hr drive home and got back at about half 2 in the morning.
f**k knows where the truck is, I’m hoping they’ll let me know tomorrow sometime.
Top purchase.
The story goes….
Got to the car, looked great, sounded great, drove great, happy so paid the guy and left. The fuel gauge was pretty low, like really really low so enquired where the nearest petrol station was. Unfortunately, there was so little petrol in that I ran out before I got there and had to walk the last 300 metres to buy a can and come back.
Bit s**t leaving it that low on juice but meh, it happens. Anyway, I stuck £80 of Tesco 99 in it and set off. All was good in the good, cruising nice, but then I started having stall issues when coming to a stop at roundabouts. The car would start again straight away but kept happening. Pretty annoying but I tried to manage it as best as I could.
Fast forward another 20 minutes and I’m driving through a contra flow in road works and the car dies and won’t re start, turning over but feels like it’s not getting fuel. I was in one of those free recovery zones and they turned up pretty quick and moved me to a local car park where the RAC man came out.
Nice guy but I don’t think he new what he was on about. As a team we diagnosed the fuel pump. He took the online filter off and we gave it a go and started up like a champ. He said to follow him to see if it was fixed and we got another 5 miles down the road before it conked out again. Still in wales. By this time it was 5pm.
He told me I’d have to be relayed home and fucked off. Another hour past and the RAC rang, explained that the relay process would take best part of 2 days or they could take it to a compound and deliver it in 3-5 days in one trip. I went for that option as by this time I was losing the will to live. They told me they’d get me a hire car and I’d be off.
8pm a taxi turns up and picks me up. I leave the truck in the petrol station and f**k off (it’s probably still there now). The taxi takes me to Cardiff airport to enterprise. There I wait another 45 minutes for enterprise to turn up and they give me this chariot.
Citroen c1. So, I commenced the 4.5hr drive home and got back at about half 2 in the morning.
f**k knows where the truck is, I’m hoping they’ll let me know tomorrow sometime.
Top purchase.
_Tom
ClioSport Club Member
What do we say about buying vehicles from South Wales Dan…
I almost said it when I first saw the link to the advert.
Bluebeard
ClioSport Moderator
Whichever has fuel
Wales and Birmingham!!!
My arse fell out on getting this one collected so wanted to go see it in the flesh first.
Ended up not making much difference!
No, he picked me up from Llanelli. I’m not one for filling a car up but I always leave at least a quarter!
Update from the RAC.
After them promising me it would be collected last night I rang the petrol station this morning and it was still there. I then rang the RAC and they told me it was in their secure compound. Lying b******s. They then told me it was getting collected at 10am. Rang the police again, still there, rang at 1pm and still there. RAC then informed me that it would be collected at some point but probably not today. I asked for a manager to speak to but they don’t have supervisors in their.
I unleashed our lass.
It’s hopefully getting collected as we speak but I’m not holding my breath.
Lying c@nts.
After them promising me it would be collected last night I rang the petrol station this morning and it was still there. I then rang the RAC and they told me it was in their secure compound. Lying b******s. They then told me it was getting collected at 10am. Rang the police again, still there, rang at 1pm and still there. RAC then informed me that it would be collected at some point but probably not today. I asked for a manager to speak to but they don’t have supervisors in their.
I unleashed our lass.
It’s hopefully getting collected as we speak but I’m not holding my breath.
Lying c@nts.
bashracing
ClioSport Club Member
Don't let it taint the purchase, It'll all be sorted soon and you'll get a bit of summer out of it.
Shame it didn't work out. I hope its an easy fix.
I like those positive vibes.
Exactly what I said to our lass. Thing is, someone could just stick it on a low loader and the garage wouldn’t ring in as wouldnt lnow.
R3k1355
ClioSport Club Member
E10 fuel that's sat around a while isn't nice to carburettors, or fuel pumps.
Bluebeard
ClioSport Moderator
Whichever has fuel
Where is it exactly……?
I don’t know. They just told me if it’s not with me by Friday to give me them a call. It really is too class service.
Robbie Corbett
ClioSport Club Member
Not mortified enough to come fix it either. If I sold that and it broke down 20mins away I would be out sorting it.
RAC sound dog s**t.
R3k1355
ClioSport Club Member
or at the very least offering to hold it on your driveway till a shipping company or a parts arrive to fix it.
Not leaving it in a random petrol station
Mr Underhill
ClioSport Club Member
Get Starmer on the phone, he’ll sort it out.
He did message me to tell me his motorbike broke down as well. I don’t know if that was supposed to make me feel better but it didn’t.
Starlet_gt
ClioSport Club Member
VW T5.1
He just sounds like a bellend to me.
