road trip from hell
Posted: Fri Aug 12, 2022 11:47 pm
Not about Haflingers but car related.
We travelled from Cairns to brisbane on the 16/7, its about 2000km to pick up a new caravan with my L/R Discovery 5.
The journey down was non eventfull and we picked up the caravan on the 19/7, and we had planned to take 3 weeks in total to return home
The handover took about 2.5 hours and all the lights etc were checked. We got flagged down about 5 minutets away from our first stop
and told when we had the indicators on, the caravan were flashing alternate sides very fast.
When we arrived at the park I wiggled the trailer plug and all was well, or so I thought, when I reconected the plug to move to our next stop, the same problem occured.
We had to leave the site as someone else was booked in so I drove about 1.5 hours to our next stop where I had time to check it out.
I tried my car on another caravan and their car on my caravan, and both worked ok, but when I connected mine same old problem.
I eventually found out it needed some resistors fitting in the caravan plug harness, so another trip back to Brisbane to get it fixed.
We had a couple of other park stops and set off to Airlie beach on 1/8, on the way I got a warning triangle on the dashboard which said
CRITICAL OIL LEVEL, then it was all over the engine had seized. We were towed back South to Rockhampton which was a 2.5hour journey to the nearest Land Rover dealer
We left the car there and flew back to Cairns the morning after, to pick up my mates Ford F250 to tow the caravan back home.
We were on the road again and stopped at a van park in Airlie beach as we had previously planned, the following day we drove into town to have a look round, and on return the F250 would not run right. Its a V8 7.3 diesel and I found it was not running on the passenger side V. I managed to limp to a motor mechanic who put his scan tool on to trace what the fault was, but he could not pinpoint the problem, this was Friday arvo at 3pm so nothing could be done.
I was speaking to my mate and he was speaking to his usual mechanic as this had happend before.
So Friday at 4pm after limping back to the van park I ended up taking the rocker cover off to find the multi pin plug on the internal of the rocker cover had moved as the clip had broken. I glued it back in place and left it overnight.
I started the engine on Saturday morning and all was good again so we hitched the caravan and headed for home, which took about 9 hours.
The Land Rover is out of warranty and have flatley refused to do anything about a replacement engine, but I have a 3rd party warranty, who say I am covered, but it will take months to repair. So we now have a very large garden ornament parked on our driveway which we are unable to use.
As the subject heading says road trip from hell
Dave
We travelled from Cairns to brisbane on the 16/7, its about 2000km to pick up a new caravan with my L/R Discovery 5.
The journey down was non eventfull and we picked up the caravan on the 19/7, and we had planned to take 3 weeks in total to return home
The handover took about 2.5 hours and all the lights etc were checked. We got flagged down about 5 minutets away from our first stop
and told when we had the indicators on, the caravan were flashing alternate sides very fast.
When we arrived at the park I wiggled the trailer plug and all was well, or so I thought, when I reconected the plug to move to our next stop, the same problem occured.
We had to leave the site as someone else was booked in so I drove about 1.5 hours to our next stop where I had time to check it out.
I tried my car on another caravan and their car on my caravan, and both worked ok, but when I connected mine same old problem.
I eventually found out it needed some resistors fitting in the caravan plug harness, so another trip back to Brisbane to get it fixed.
We had a couple of other park stops and set off to Airlie beach on 1/8, on the way I got a warning triangle on the dashboard which said
CRITICAL OIL LEVEL, then it was all over the engine had seized. We were towed back South to Rockhampton which was a 2.5hour journey to the nearest Land Rover dealer
We left the car there and flew back to Cairns the morning after, to pick up my mates Ford F250 to tow the caravan back home.
We were on the road again and stopped at a van park in Airlie beach as we had previously planned, the following day we drove into town to have a look round, and on return the F250 would not run right. Its a V8 7.3 diesel and I found it was not running on the passenger side V. I managed to limp to a motor mechanic who put his scan tool on to trace what the fault was, but he could not pinpoint the problem, this was Friday arvo at 3pm so nothing could be done.
I was speaking to my mate and he was speaking to his usual mechanic as this had happend before.
So Friday at 4pm after limping back to the van park I ended up taking the rocker cover off to find the multi pin plug on the internal of the rocker cover had moved as the clip had broken. I glued it back in place and left it overnight.
I started the engine on Saturday morning and all was good again so we hitched the caravan and headed for home, which took about 9 hours.
The Land Rover is out of warranty and have flatley refused to do anything about a replacement engine, but I have a 3rd party warranty, who say I am covered, but it will take months to repair. So we now have a very large garden ornament parked on our driveway which we are unable to use.
As the subject heading says road trip from hell
Dave