Today ( 1st of April) I collected....kind of, my van! The guy selling the van had told me all its problems including the snapped fan belt, so I duely arranged for a friend to get me a new one to take out with us. Armed with every concievable tool we could possibly need we headed off. But the van wouldn't start.
I'd expected that, so we began fitting the new fan belt and quickly discovered the bolt holding the tensioner was missing (we had tools but no bolts!).... no fan belt will be fitted here today. With a jump start we got him going and decided to chance it, we did manage to drive him a few miles (with no power steering and electronic dials flashing all over) but alas he slowly died.
Decided to call the garage and get them to tow it...country road, dusk setting in, we had few options, £130 was duely paid and a very nice man (no, not that very nice man from the AA, but an equally nice man from a local garage) came and towed it to his workshop, where it will have the fan belt fitted on Monday and a once-over by a man that knows.
Costs - £300 van
£20 fan belt
£130 tow
£450
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