Breakdowns

[Guinney1971]

when my De has broken down, its always been for summat stupid, and to be fair, the RAC (sorry Chris)
have always been brilliant, come straight out to it and got me going again/recovered with the minimum
of fuss.

I had to call the RAC out 2yrs ago, on the way to the MOT, as it wouldn't start after I'd nipped into my
local Post Office.

A few checks with multimeter eventually showed that the fuse to the fuel pump had gone. I had a spare,
we fitted it, off I went again quite happily and its been fine since.

Prior to that, I had a coolant hose (30yr old original) explode at 70mph on the M1 - I was on my way to
Southend to have a new clutch fitted, and the RAC recovered me from J15 (Northampton) and took me
all the way to Southend, where the guy doing the clutch had a piece of hose to repair the car. When I
got it back home, I changed most of the hoses for silicone ones, although I have had a '90 degree' hose
split (near the coolant bottle) a few weeks ago, but the car was on the drive, and the local car parts shop
had a new hose and new clips for less then a tenner.

The only other problems I've had to call the car out for, were in its early days in the UK, when it suffered from
overheating issues due to a duff thermostat and laterly a poor radiator.

Compare this to my 'daily driver', which in the last few weeks has cost me over £1200 due to the clutch going
and the turbo going.

The De may have a thirsty liking for the 'motion lotion', but its been a lot cheaper to maintain and repair then my 7yr old
daily driver that I've only had since February.....