Car brokedown....

Right then, Ive been looking for a nice mk1 for quite sometime now. One day while looking through the classifieds I found 'the one' She was looking at me screaming "take me home Dave and I'll love you forever" a little 1.3 driver   … so I drove the 2 1/2 hours to pick her up. She was everything I wanted, beautiful, sexy and comfortable.  
Then on the way home she brokedown  

Anymore detail on this?

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Think it was a loose distributer? Was playing with all wires under the bonnet and eventually she started again. Anyone else's car broken down on their first drive?

Yes more details please

hope it didnt take the shine off the passion you have for her? she still loves you, she was just testing your commitment as her new owner she needs to know you'll always be there and on your toes!

Could be absolutely anything mate.  Did she cough and splutter or just stop?

Moved to mk1 chat as it's mk1 related  :wink:

yep my last mk1 broke down 4 times on the way home!

yep my current project broke down on the way back ended up with the very nice man from the aa towng me home the rest of the way

turned out to be a worn earth strap

On both Drivers I've had;

1st one triggered the oil pressure light on way home, oil pressure was low, replaced engine with a recon and ran for another 5 years
2nd one made it about 10 miles until about 50 yards from home and conked out with the dreaded crud in tank via rotten filler neck. Removed tank, cleaned and brother ran car for 10 years.

My GTi I bought as a restoration project chucked it fan belt off on way home, replaced that then about 2 miles from home engine seized due to previous owner making a balls up of replacing the crank shells.

Whatever you do don't get the wife/girl friend/mistress to give you a tow….

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I bought my silver one then went to get fuel before the journey home (190+ miles)….. it wouldn't start so I called the bloke I just bought it off…. I forgot it had an immobiliser  :redfaced: … swiped it and off I went all the way home  :redfaced:  :redfaced:

I broke down in the Dartford Tunnel on the way home from collecting my tintop from Dover!

Jim_E_Ruff said

I broke down in the Dartford Tunnel on the way home from collecting my tintop from Dover!

Breaking down in the actual tunnel must be a crapy situation :cry:

I tell a lie, it was just outside of it, but still very scary

Breaking down on the M25 is Nasty man, The M25 is a nasty motor way in its own self

Im glad im not the only one then  :roll:
She was coughing and spluttering a lot first but made it to a layby. As soon as i pulled in she cut out and wouldn't start. Luckily she'd made it to within 20mins of home so i didnt have far to go on after she started again. She going in to my mates garage today to have a full going over just to see what else needs doing (hopefully nothing major). I'll have my fingers crossed  :wink:

mine kept breaking down due to crap in the tank! all I did was ran STP injector cleaner and she was fine after that!

breaking down near the dartford tunnel must of been horrible!

Unlucky Dave, where's the pics of the new car then

Get him to check for a corroded filler neck and crap in the tank mate.

James_W said

Unlucky Dave, where's the pics of the new car then

I'll wait for it to stop raining and get it cleaned