Thursday, 25 June 2015

On the Road

So the XR4i is back on the road, well sort of, well it was temporarily.

Ok, I admit it. It has broken down already!

We had a quick run out last night to take the battery charger for repair, which has been fixed free of charge by the way which is a bit of a bonus. Anyway the car behaved impeccably for the few mile drive out of town and back, before springing a coolant leak on the way back.

This morning we have driven it back to the garage where Liam works with a bit of a coolant leak so that he can hopefully fix it again at lunchtime. 

Of course the trouble with older cars is that locating spares can be a bit of a nightmare, as we found with the radiator hose earlier in the year. Of course you can't easily buy this hose either so it's time to get our thinking caps on!

2 comments:

  1. This link might be useful (hopefully)
    http://www.gatesautocat.com/cooling/FORD-(Europe)/Sierra/BNC-GBC/PR5-PR6-PRT/08-82_12-86/11098
    Apologies if you already know about it...
    Kevin

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  2. Thanks Kevin.

    Just had a message from Liam to say that it is fixed again now. He has managed to cut the damaged piece of hose off and make it work again.

    Bloody old cars!

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