Needless to say beautiful evening, took Sue out for a spin for an hour or so, stop in Lytham to go for a walk. Get back in turn ignition, warning lights come on turn key further nothing lights go out and immobiliser flashing at me. Bugger. Try a few times wriggling the key no luck, I remember so posting about immobiliser and doing something with the keys, so we get a taxi short distance home, get second key, jump in Sue's car, try 2nd key and more of the same. Bugger.
Needless to say the only time I have RAC recovery is when I have a Morgan. Ring them, few hours later, he goes thru his mantra, battery ok, fuses ok, cant get starter to work, no furl pump or fuel injection.......must be immobiliser....exactly what I told the RAC when I made the call as to the likely fault. Nice chap, used to work at TVR in Blackpool, so we had a good old chat whilst he did hid mantra. Now 10.40pm he goes off shift shortly so can't take the car to Mat at Lifes. I spoke to Mat at home to see if ok to deliver car to garage in early hours of the morning and where to put the keys, we did some fault finding but no joy whilst I waited for the RAC. Excellent of Mat to take my call and help out at that time of night Next RAC up date, expect flat bed up to 5.20am and I had to stay with the vehicle. Bugger. Fortunately RAC decide to use a local recovery service, waved goodbye to car and just had confirmation car delivered at 1.13 am. Whilst Matt may well have dealt with this before, I sent a link to DaveW post on immobiliser ring proximity to Mat just in case.
We were stuck outside a pub and everyone liked the car, we just wished it worked. I've done nearly 1000 miles in the few weeks I've had it, more than a fifth of the total miles from new on the car registered August 2012. So this has tested my forbearance just a tad, along with the two taps its had whilst parked, might be telling me something. The only blessing at the moment is it could have happened in the middle of no-where, pissing it down with rain.
