Well chaps here is a tale..............................
On Tuesday I was accompanying my mate up to the north of england to deliver a restored 90 to it's new owner on the back of a trailer.
Simple - take his P38, just been serviced, passed its MOT and seemingly in fine fettle.
All is well - we get there - drop off the 90, customer delighted, and having done such a good job he insists we bring his 1992 3.9 Classic back for similar treatment. Nice.
So we load it up onto the trailer - back down the M6, M42,M40 and onto the M25 at 5 pm, past heathrow -round to M3 - put the lights on - OMG - rev counter stops, gearbox stuck in top -oh crap!!!!!!! car just dies in main carriageway - complete shutdown!!!!!!!11
Here we are causing all sorts of mayhem - lorry drivers coming up the inside of us on the hard shoulder so we can't get out - very frightening.
Anyway after a few minutes a fellow RR owner (P38)stops, reverses up to us, grabs a huge towrope out of his boot hitches us up and tows the whole caboose to safety on the hard shoulder.
Cannot thank him enough - what a hero - gave him a tenner for a drink - shook his hand and away he went.
RAC eventually arrived at 8.30 pm - during which time we had swapped batteries with the classic on the trailer etc - all to no avail.
Anyway it turns out the alternator was not charging the battery and it was slowly draining - but absolutely no warning of this - yet the autologic has since told us the alternator was fine- even though it wasn't.
Had a similar thing happen with my L322 TDV8 - no warning - just catastrophic failure. Three times (why I got rid)!
Anyone else had this total failure with no warning?
Bloomin' dangerous if you ask me!
On Tuesday I was accompanying my mate up to the north of england to deliver a restored 90 to it's new owner on the back of a trailer.
Simple - take his P38, just been serviced, passed its MOT and seemingly in fine fettle.
All is well - we get there - drop off the 90, customer delighted, and having done such a good job he insists we bring his 1992 3.9 Classic back for similar treatment. Nice.
So we load it up onto the trailer - back down the M6, M42,M40 and onto the M25 at 5 pm, past heathrow -round to M3 - put the lights on - OMG - rev counter stops, gearbox stuck in top -oh crap!!!!!!! car just dies in main carriageway - complete shutdown!!!!!!!11
Here we are causing all sorts of mayhem - lorry drivers coming up the inside of us on the hard shoulder so we can't get out - very frightening.
Anyway after a few minutes a fellow RR owner (P38)stops, reverses up to us, grabs a huge towrope out of his boot hitches us up and tows the whole caboose to safety on the hard shoulder.
Cannot thank him enough - what a hero - gave him a tenner for a drink - shook his hand and away he went.
RAC eventually arrived at 8.30 pm - during which time we had swapped batteries with the classic on the trailer etc - all to no avail.
Anyway it turns out the alternator was not charging the battery and it was slowly draining - but absolutely no warning of this - yet the autologic has since told us the alternator was fine- even though it wasn't.
Had a similar thing happen with my L322 TDV8 - no warning - just catastrophic failure. Three times (why I got rid)!
Anyone else had this total failure with no warning?
Bloomin' dangerous if you ask me!
