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Emergency breakdown in France - Help needed
Range Rover Blues:
12-6 oclock will tell you bearings and swivel, 3-9 oclock bearings and steering, you need to check both.
Anyway. more pressing matters, that sounds to me like a prop has gone, fortunate for you Snezza as you car has a spare (well redundant at least) so you can get home in 2wd.
I did have a Diff collapse with very similar symptoms, but that would be damn obvious from a quick look underneath. My money is on the prop.
Pair of 14mm spanners and take it off. Just remeber to put a brick under one wheel.
snezza69:
thanks all.
Problem 1: I was only allowed by SWMBO to bring the wheel brace and bottle jack as we were travalling fully laden.
Problem 2: The vehicle is now at a local garage in Bairritz and will be looked at on Monday.
Problem 3: I dont trust the mechanics over here.
I still have 900 miles to go to get home, will that be OK for this distance?
The good news is that my recovery comany has put me up in a hotel for 2 nights on the Bairritz sea front and has arranged for the three of us to fly home as we both need to get back to work.
If the car is fixed within 3 days, they will fly me back out to collect it or if it will not be repaired in that time they will trailer it back to me!
I am a little concerned that the garage may just replace the prop when all it needs by the sound of it is 1 or 2 joints! Dont know how easy they qre to get hold of here!!!!
I know the garage in Germany gets all their LR parts from France :oops:
I hope it gets trailered back to me to fix myself.......
Will keep you posted.
defenderdan:
--- Quote from: "snezza69" --- a mechanic in Spain saw the vehicle and just re balanced the front wheels for 60 Euros problem not fixed at all.
--- End quote ---
That is £40 for a balance on two wheels, I hope for your sake that is just a typing error.
hobbit:
If you can confirm the prop is the prob, get another proshaft locally if possible, or get them not to fix but to drag it back, or fly over with a replacement prop and change it yourself, then drive back
snezza69:
--- Quote from: "defenderdan" ---That is £40 for a balance on two wheels, I hope for your sake that is just a typing error.
--- End quote ---
I know, but when you cant get the language!!!!!!
We just wanted to get on our way.
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