Yup.
First of all, many thanks everyone for all the kind messages. Much appreciated.
Today was deja vue squared.
Sod’s law, when the dealer tried to start the car this morning, they said it fired up first time, they took it for a 20 minute drive with no problems and they had no difficulties starting it up afterwards either. They had a good look at everything and couldn’t find anything wrong. They did say that the contacts for the relay for the immobiliser were loose and they thought that might be the problem, which they had now remedied.
We collected the car this afternoon and had a great drive back to Oxford. I stopped briefly at home and then went back into town for a quick spin with my wife but it felt as if it was not quite firing properly and then it stopped and wouldn’t start again. So that led to another 20 minute call to the Morgan Rescue Service to get another breakdown truck to come and pick it up - again.
I did try starting it while waiting for the breakdown guy and it did then start up but sounded very lumpy and there was lots of white/grey smoke coming out of the exhausts.
The car is clearly neither of merchantable quality nor fit for purpose if I can’t drive it for more than an hour and a half/two hours without it breaking down.
I have told the dealer I don’t want to see the wretched thing again until they (or Morgan) have identified what the problem is and remedied it.
Apologies for venting but I am very frustrated as this is now the second evening on the trot I have had to stand around by the side of the road in the dark for more than two hours waiting for a breakdown truck.
Even my wife and father have not made fun of it this time!
All in all, a pretty grim Halloween story.🎃😡🎃