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NickG:
Got all the drawings done for the Tiny Stirling now and was planning to start machining over the weekend but as always, life gets in the way. Saturday I started painting the downstairs loo, Sunday the car broke down and won't start and today on the way to work the other car broke down and went into limp mode - nearly killing me, again! Only had it since August, was in the garage last week supposedly getting repaired for something that wasn't covered by the 3 month warranty - £250 later then today, of all days, it cuts out when pulling onto motorway. In my experience all I can say is, don't buy a Citroen and don't buy from Evans Halshaw.

A very pissed off Nick!  :bang:
sbwhart:
Thats a real bummer Nick luckily you weren't hurt.

Stew
Stilldrillin:
Ohh, Nick!.
Very sorry to hear that.....

It's amazing how life gets in the way of the best laid plans. :bang:

Hope you're soon sorted, and back to what passes as "normal".....  :thumbup:

David D
shoey51:
thats bad luck mate hopr you get it sorted soon and back to normality
NickG:
Cheers guys,  sorry, bit :offtopic: but I started ripping bits off the little Clio today to try and find out what's wrong. I was thinking it could be the crank angle sensor so have taken that off and ordered a new one, but while I was on I thought I'd whip the spark plugs out and do a compression test, as it sounded like there was no compression when turning the engine over - with my heath robinson compression tester (a grandad special!) there was zilch on any cylinder - will have to borrow a proper one to confirm it though. Not quite sure what it could be - cam belt could have slipped round? but would expect to see something on the gauge - valves stuck open possibly? - will have to get the rocker covers off to have a look at that. Anyway, will leave it there as this could be a whole new topic but you get the picture!

As for the other car (citroen) it's just too complicated for its own good, am incredibly annoyed, they are charging me £85 to get a recovery truck to pick it up to "have a look at it" as far as I'm concerned it aint coming back, going to fight for my money back (or most of it) and try something else  :doh:

As Stew said, no actual harm done though and I've finished painting the toilet so  :)  :ddb:
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