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Originally Posted by Nugget
This is what happened to me with the petrol tank issue  . I'd been in Birmingham for my brothers wedding and, when we saw the spreading pool of petrol on my parents drive  , we thought it probably wouldn't be wise to drive it. One call to More Than, and they arranged for a mechanic to come out and, when they couldn't do anything, a recovery van arrived the next morning to get us back to Grimsby (140 miles-ish). Same thing - all it cost was my £6.90 premium (mind you, I did have to fork out 200 quid for a new petrol tank |
How about that, I was at a wedding too ... fortunately in my case it was just a blocked carburettor. Simple clean-out job for the mechanic at the local garage the day after I got towed home. He said I was probably unlucky and got the dregs from the service station's underground petrol tank when I filled up. Amazingly Ford Orions of that age had no fuel filter in their system ... he very helpfully inserted one in my fuel line for me at the same time.
I ought to mention that the RAC tried to clear the blockage at the roadside a couple of days earlier, apparently fixing the problem, and despite my worries that they wouldn't attend the same problem twice, didn't quibble at all.