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Be a bit cheaper then lol. Fair do's, I had an SJ410 when I was 20, paid something like £900 to insure that. I did live in Oxford and it was the height of car crime then though!
cylinder behind rear wheel?
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Be a bit cheaper then lol. Fair do's, I had an SJ410 when I was 20, paid something like £900 to insure that. I did live in Oxford and it was the height of car crime then though!
All TD5 owners should carry a couple of spare fuel filters in the back. This summer I was on my way south, driving nicely over 300 miles, o to M6 Toll road, up the the booth to pay, engine goes out like a light. It won't start.
I fasten my big rope to the front, and the girl called for assistance. A truck appeared a minute later.
They tow me away from the booth. Two really cheerful motoway guys. They offer to phone AA or whatever, but I said I could probably have the car going in ten minutes. They said to go for it, and one of them told me he had bought a TD5 Disco two weeks before! I told him to watch and learn. We waited a bit as the filter was quite hot still. Be aware that the fuel filter of TD5 engines does get HOT. They brought a shovel with oil absorber, and I took off the filter. Screwed on a new filter, went through the priming process, ran that twice more after the pump quietened down, and engine fired up like there had never been a probelm.
Gave the motorway men a tenner for a couple of beers, and I gave the one with the Disco a spare Paddocks filter to keep in his car.
I am still running on that filter about 8,000 miles later, and I have TWO spares in the back again.
I wonder what a main stealer would have charged for a motorway call-out and a fix like that?
Moral - know a little about the basics, and carry sensible small spares.
CharlesY
I fasten my big rope to the front, and the girl called for assistance. A truck appeared a minute later.
They tow me away from the booth. Two really cheerful motoway guys. They offer to phone AA or whatever, but I said I could probably have the car going in ten minutes. They said to go for it, and one of them told me he had bought a TD5 Disco two weeks before! I told him to watch and learn. We waited a bit as the filter was quite hot still. Be aware that the fuel filter of TD5 engines does get HOT. They brought a shovel with oil absorber, and I took off the filter. Screwed on a new filter, went through the priming process, ran that twice more after the pump quietened down, and engine fired up like there had never been a probelm.
Gave the motorway men a tenner for a couple of beers, and I gave the one with the Disco a spare Paddocks filter to keep in his car.
I am still running on that filter about 8,000 miles later, and I have TWO spares in the back again.
I wonder what a main stealer would have charged for a motorway call-out and a fix like that?
Moral - know a little about the basics, and carry sensible small spares.
CharlesY