Hi Gary, my thoughts are with you, it must have been frightening being stuck where you were on the worst road in the country :roll:
I am sure with you knowledge you will have it back up and running soon.
Missed you being at peterborough but on the bright side you may have missed the poring rain on the way back
I am amazed the RAC chap got a core plug but not surprised it popped out very soon after.
I stopped off at South Mims Services and got approached by 3 young chaps, one dressed as if he had come out of the 1970 complete with hairy top lip! Think he paid the Marina club a visit during the show.
They said their Allegro was dead and could I help!
It turned out they had done very little checking before running the rust coloured engine and I have never seen a fan belt so loose and worn to a thin vee with chucks out of it. I asked was it hot? They said yeah, is was near the end! Starter did not turn the engine over, so I assumed engine was seized. It was only on leaving I remembered I had a socket for the crank pulley nut so I went back over and the engine did turn so their news was not as bad as I had thought but they were left waiting for the recovery man to come :roll:
They will need, oil (as they said it had little in it!) Water, and new fan belt and hammer to get the starter engaged and they may get it going.
I managed to dry out the boot of water I had in the car when I got home and I think the noise I can hear may be rear axle but that will be another day.
