Disaster strikes the Discovery again!

Kim — Mon, 03 Jul 2006 22:35:00 +0100

Monday morning, just left our caravan site at Teigngrace when Pete has to do a drastic pull-in to the services. The temperature gauge was off the scale, steam pouring out of the engine - heart in mouth, panic stations, everything out of the car and thinking the worst - surely it couldn’t happen to us twice! Luckily (?! or not) it was a burst radiator. Within the hour we were transported to our campsite to pitch up before the car was taken to the garage for repairs. Is there anything else for us to replace on this car?

Disaster strikes again! July 2006

Range Rover RIP

Pete — Wed, 21 Sep 2005 19:08:00 +0100

OK, so it’s taken me over two months to finally put these photos on the web. This was the day (28th June 2005) that our car decided to spontaneously catch fire. At rush hour. On a busy motorway roundabout. Whilst towing our caravan. Containing most of our worldly possessions. And which we couldn’t detach because I had hamfistedly broken the jockey wheel two days before.

Luckily the fire was contained to the front of the car & the passenger compartment. Our laptops - along with everything else in the boot - were OK, if a bit smoky. The car, as you can see, was a complete write off. The caravan got a bit mucky but was pretty much untouched.

(These photos were taken on my phone, so the quality isn’t great)

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Disaster strikes the Discovery again!

Range Rover RIP