Just coming up to the end of my first year and some 15,000 miles in my 22 P4 and I think I’ve come to terms with the most obvious foibles but the one nagging doubt foremost in my mind at the moment surrounds the procedure to unlock the auto transmission from beneath the car with a tool which wouldn’t look out of place in an abattoir. Please tell me is there anyone out there with the unfortunate experience of having to do the unlocking in anger at the side of the road and can it really be done? In the dark? In the rain? By a man who has little experience of mechanical matters?
I’m a couple of weeks away from taking the car down to Seville for the first time so yesterday I tried a practice run through using the supplied ratchet jack and I gave up pretty quickly as it wouldn’t give me either the height or the confidence I’d need to get anywhere near the hooking point and that was in the relative comfort of my driveway. Would a Spanish breakdown operator know what to do? We’ve done this trip many times on the motorbike and we’ve called out the breakdown people three times for flat tyres so we do have some experience so l may well be whittling over nothing but am I alone in this?
