timu_at_home

It started several months ago as just the occasional cough, then it started to happen every time I went up the steep beacon hill near church crookham, then once it started it began to continue on 3 cylinders until I stopped and restarted the bus ( and then the door led flashed for several minutes).

I took it into the Ford garage and they wired it up and spotted cyclinder 1’s fuel injector was not working once the car was hot.

900 pounds ( included the 1 week car hire from the very nice folks at 1car1.com) later normality is resumed - I just hope the other 3 don’t go the same way…

A cold wet day but i was nice and warm, now I am back into it I’ll cycle tomorrow.

All because the ford galaxy’s battery expired after 6 years. The symptoms were a general slowness to turn over for a few weeks, the fuel gauge suddenly reading 0 and then yesterday I noticed a slight flickering of the headlights at idle and then it just stopped… Inchcape Ford get another hundred pounds but they did do it at short notice and did a good job…