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Monday, July 28 2003
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Monday, July 14 2003
The Landrovers progress

The local garage came and picked up the Landy today. I'm sure Denis-the-neigbour was pleased about this as we'd left it outside his house on Saturday. Apparently the cam belt has gone so turning the engine over no doubt did it no end of good. Mind you, we were doing about 70mph when it went so the engine was probably pretty knackered by the time we stopped anyway.

I was out when they came to get it. I'm assuming they weren't so incompetent as to tow it with only two wheel of the ground and bugger the transmission.

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Saturday, July 12 2003
It's dead Jim

Well The Landy is anyway. We were on the way down to Abbotsbury to see Show Of hands at the tropical gardens. Strange noise come from Land Rover, followed by (relative) silence as the engine cuts out. Out comes the tow truck who diagnose the fuel pump (after much turning over of the engine).

They then call a bigger trucker to take us away. Said truck managed to get about a mile before breaking down. We limp back to tow-truck central where they repair it and we drink tea. Off we go again for all of 10 meters before it gives up.

This time we swap trucks and actually make it back to Camberley.

It was too late to drive back down by then so we sat around in the garden, drinking beer and listening to CDs of the bands we would've heard had we been there.

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Posted at: Saturday, December 13 2003 02:55:28 PM