Vehicle Breakdowns Whilst on holiday!

Yes it is a real problem Mate!!, When some so called mechanic does a chit job and your stranded with wife in the middle of the bundocks!....Yes there is good service out there, But I wouldn't be so naive to think that its all the same.


Cheers Axle.

I'd like to take all the credit mate, but I found that info out via LCOOL forum whilst sitting in a pub in Tasmania having a counter lunch. I was several thousand klms from home on holidays with a vehicle that was playing up big time....vehicle specific forums are a god send these days...it's just a shame Photobucket have made many thousands of valuable threads on them practically useless these days, as we all know a picture paints a thousand words, and many of the pictures are now gone thanks to their recent action.

Yep! Might be rumpig...

...but you had the info, I didn't, you shared it and I benefited (as did heaps of others who read it).

The internet is a big place and you can't be in all of them at once.

Cheers

Anthony

Good advice.
Was chatting to an young overseas traveller at Tom Price a week or three ago.
He gave me the old line about WA being an acronym for wait awhile. He though he was so funny.
He was pissed off that the local workshop didn't have the parts to fix the stuffed clutch on his Kia (not sure of model) yesterday and it would most likely be a couple of days before they arrived from Perth and he really didn't have the the time to be hanging around waiting and what a crappy place it was ...
I politely tried to explain that things like this were what could happen when you ventured a thousand kilometres or two away from major cities but he wasn't having any of it.
I decided to extricate myself from the conversation by asking if he had confirmed that the parts were in fact available ex Perth and were not coming from Korea ...
Could that be right, he asked.
dunno mate, good luck with it ...
Cheers.

Several hundred klms isn't really that far to travel relative speaking when outback...I had the rear main seal fail on a newly rebuilt diff just outside of Innamincka a few years ago (looked like a waterfall of diff oil coming out, not just a small leak), a mate and myself left Innamincka just after lunch and drove the 350klms to Toyota in Thargomindah to get the part we needed, then left there after the sun went down (so as not to be driving into the setting sun), and drove back to Innamincka, arriving back around 1.30 a.m....took us just over 3 1/2 hrs to get there, dodging roos and cows on the drive back to over 5 1/2 hrs.

In addition to what I said earlier. Noticed I was losing coolant. Rang a radiator guy who said bring it in when I got to town. After arrival he diagnosed water pump gone. He tracked down a new one which arrived next day. He already had a full day but started early when freight arrived and was done by 10am. Try that in suburbia. Thanks Kevin at St George radiators.