Originally Posted by daveo90s4

Back from a 300 km trip (that's 180 miles for you US bods) with lots of rest stops, coffee stops etc along the way, and the car started straight up every time. So very confident that the fix Greg suggested has done the job.

Great community and this use of the internet and human goodwill is a fantastic mix.

It's 11 pm in Brisbane, Australia. I've got a 7am departure the next day for a club day out. The car is dead in the garage, no spark, no fuel. No time to fix it. I send off a message to Rennliist and go to sleep.

Next morning 1st thing I do is check for any sage replies. Three very helpful replies from 1,000s of kms away (1,000s of miles too), two from persons I've never met, may never meet, and all from people who want nothing in return, but are just being good decent humans giving another human some help.

Then in a space of about five minutes the most simple of all suggestions is implemented and this complicated (to me) piece of machinery is back to life, at absolutely no cost. That meant my fiancee and I had a great social day out, rather than me being under the car trying to nut out the problem. And in addition I can catch the plane at 5am tomorrow morning not having to try to strategise how to get my car fixed in my absence.

I know this is a bit a bit gushy (quite unlike me I think), but the rapid response and assistance made a huge difference to how my day turned out. Thanks.

Dave