Yes, I've changed the car again. That's 4 times in less than 3 years. I'm bored is why. The 2 seater turbocharged Mercedes has gone. In it's place is a car I've always sought after. It's Italian, it begins with F and I can change gear with buttons on the steering wheel...!
Which is great except I took it for a first drive today (my neighbour does all the test driving at purchase as I'm none to good at transiting cars on demand), and the damned gearbox failed! That's to say it just went in to neutral and a big fat warning light on the dash said "gearbox failure". Oh crap. I've only got 1 hour of oxygen, no recovery service in place and I'm on an extremely busy and narrow main road 4 miles from home. I "rebooted" the system (turned it off, tuned it on) Nothing, same result stick refused to be put in any gear. so as a last resort, i selected reverse. Bingo! The car moved backwards and thus it all decided to work normally again.
Very worrying for me though. Got it being collected tomorrow so someone can have sniff around.
There must be a Law (similar to Sods/Murphys etc) that says no matter how much research you put into a vehicle before you purchase, you will only discover 1000 pages of faults and gremlins suffered by this particular model on the interweb only after you've parted with the cash.
Caveat Emptor indeed...
Which is great except I took it for a first drive today (my neighbour does all the test driving at purchase as I'm none to good at transiting cars on demand), and the damned gearbox failed! That's to say it just went in to neutral and a big fat warning light on the dash said "gearbox failure". Oh crap. I've only got 1 hour of oxygen, no recovery service in place and I'm on an extremely busy and narrow main road 4 miles from home. I "rebooted" the system (turned it off, tuned it on) Nothing, same result stick refused to be put in any gear. so as a last resort, i selected reverse. Bingo! The car moved backwards and thus it all decided to work normally again.
Very worrying for me though. Got it being collected tomorrow so someone can have sniff around.
There must be a Law (similar to Sods/Murphys etc) that says no matter how much research you put into a vehicle before you purchase, you will only discover 1000 pages of faults and gremlins suffered by this particular model on the interweb only after you've parted with the cash.
Caveat Emptor indeed...