Frenchdame
Well-Known Member
Help from members PLEASE: currently stranded in Brittany after my '96 300tdi suddenly stopped on French motorway tonight. Had made a cool four hundred miles today, mostly motorways so nothing strenuous and never above 70 mph.
We were coasting about sixty mph and engine just cut out. Engine turns over and doesn't catch. I noticed from the hard shoulder that when I turned ion the ignition, the yellow light was missing, not illuminated.
I have had to hire a car and just now got back to our holiday centre a hundred and fifty miles away but I don't want the French mechanics tearing it apart - I really want to be able to point them in the right direction and ship in my own parts from the UK.
Am absolutely jiggered at the moment so any suggestions while I have wi-fi access WILL really be appreciated.
Background: high mileage engine; head gasket replaced in Spain last week and head skimmed; lost power towards end of week when lots of black smoke emerged and garage told me they'd cleaned out turbo and problem went away. Since then had done approaching one thousand miles on way home when it all went so wrong tonight.
We were coasting about sixty mph and engine just cut out. Engine turns over and doesn't catch. I noticed from the hard shoulder that when I turned ion the ignition, the yellow light was missing, not illuminated.
I have had to hire a car and just now got back to our holiday centre a hundred and fifty miles away but I don't want the French mechanics tearing it apart - I really want to be able to point them in the right direction and ship in my own parts from the UK.
Am absolutely jiggered at the moment so any suggestions while I have wi-fi access WILL really be appreciated.
Background: high mileage engine; head gasket replaced in Spain last week and head skimmed; lost power towards end of week when lots of black smoke emerged and garage told me they'd cleaned out turbo and problem went away. Since then had done approaching one thousand miles on way home when it all went so wrong tonight.
