Talk Morgan Forums Morgan Sports Cars Morgan Aero 8, 2012< Plus 8, SuperSports, Coupe & Aeromax by Coupe to Positano.

Good luck with the rest of your mission.

Glad you had a relatively "painless" resolution to your stoppage, good for the local boys. I had a similar problem in my +8 back in 1981 in Nyon on the shore of Lake Leman. Turned out to be a splinter of wood caught in one of the valves in the mechanical fuel pump. Thankfully we were in a comfy campsite in the sun, so just a matter of pulling bits off until we found the problem.

Enjoy the trip and safe travels.

In spite of the above, no doubt it will be an amazing road trip with stretches of lovely roads and views to match!

In terms of the contaminated fuel, did you fill up at a major service station and just get unlucky or did you use somewhere less visited? Not sure how common bad fuel is, hence the question.

Reminds me of The Italian Job film

Grand tour road trips are some of the landmarks of our lives, not everyone understands the attraction, but I certainly do, you’ve got me thinking again!😂
The only experience I’ve had with the AA or maybe it was RAC was exactly the same, waits for hours, no communication, incompetent staff. When are businesses going to learn that using the excuse “we’re very busy” ( especially if it’s a prerecorded message), sounds the same as, “lower your expectations”.
Despite the extortionate prices, I tried to buy super duper unleaded but now and then I’d no choice and filled up in the countryside with basic petrol, didn’t notice any difference really. Glad you got it sorted though, post up a few pictures if you can, I.d love to see what it’s like this time of year.

Like Skegness by the sound of it!

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Sir P

You are correct, it was a smaller local place. I always try and put Benzine 98+ in and I guess that has not been turning over so much at that location. Had I used the standard stuff I guess it would have been fine!

Positano is still the same as 2017, except the price, road traffic levels, volume of tourists even now off peak, but some quiet corners can be found.

I am on the trip home now. The car is slightly lighter but I am definitely heaver as an offset. One long day from Positano to Rivoli/Turin. I love so many things about Italy but hotels nearly always end up being a failure. This evenings tells me it had air conditioning when I rang to book. Yes but it's not turned on. Oh we mis-understood, language problems, blah blah blah. In other words we don't care about you and will happily lie to your face. Well the last laugh is on them I have already reversed the Amex payment so lets see how they feel in the morning.

Well job done, the Coupe grumbled it's way down and is now causing mobile traffic jams on the way home as people try and get a video/photo of it while veering across two lanes. Italians, quite mad. But in a good, petrolhead way. I wish some other countries were as loving.

Well, home again. Sadly.

I did the home journey the hard way.
All Peage, at night when it is mostly clear and you can just rumble on between regular petrol stops.
Positano to just short of Lyon one night.
Lyon to home second night and morning. Quite a rumble and I did take a couple of two hour sleep stops for safety.

I love the fact that you can turn up at totally the wrong time at the Eurotunnel and they just put you on the next train.
I love the friendly way people approach the Coupe and show how much they like it, not the case with supercars.
I get bored of having to get out at Peage stops and walk around to get tickets but even then people queuing behind you smile.
Even the lorry drivers would give me a little flash as I slide back into the lane in front of them.
The Tillet carbon one part seats are surprisingly comfortable, unless I put more weight on....
Sidepipes do drone at 80 so you either use 5th (ZF Auto 6 speed) or just rest below at 75 in 6th but then you can feel it pulling on the uphill bits.
Despite the Sony floating ICE thingy looking a bit awkward it worked so well with touchscreen, carplay, Waze and iTunes that I would not go back.

Yes stuff broke.
Air/Con again (It did it on the same trip in 2017)
Dipped beam on near side went off*
Drivers window just winds down into door as you start up
Central locking has a mind of it's own so I stopped using the fob and just locked them, not done that for a LONG time!

Do people treat Morgans differently - example.
*So I was doing two long night runs home. The near side dipped headlamp failed during my time in Positano. I went to a BMW/Mini dealer to see if they had the correct bulb. The local garage in Positano tried to fix it for me but did not have an H7, what more can you ask? The BMW dealer put me directly in the workshop, after the usual "everyone go cooo" they tried to fix it straight away. No discussion, up on a jack, wheel off, replacement bulb, fail. They diagnosed the CPU/attachment and tried to match it from BMW/Mini stock but could not. In the end I left with a single working lamp, not ideal for the night run home. They did not charge me and could not have done more. No delay, no "we have to book you in".
When it did break down I had the total fail by the AA to do anything. Enough said about that the better. I had pulled into one of the little pit stop side areas on the Motorway where there is a "rescue" phone and so used it. The Italian guy who answered said "ah you are the guy in the Morgan, we have had the camera on you for a while to monitor things. We have a man ready, we know the AA have no cover here so we waited." He turned up 30 minutes later in a van with an extending bed to allow for the low height, he had been waiting so he got this job assigned to him! Google Translate, some judicious pointing and nodding and I was underway in three hours.
Any of you who have visited the little wiggly road down into Positano know the number of scalpers, sorry parking areas and their charges per hour/day. Several offered to park the car for free and keep it at the front if I would stay in theirs, I have never had that in any other car in Positano. AMG and Pork Sausage included.

If I was unendingly rich I would live in Buca di Bacco in Positano until my last day. That view, food, environment just does it for me. The stay in HdP in Monaco was an occasion but never left me relaxed, since the rebuild it has lost it's soul and could be almost any high end chain now. Como was stunning and a very close second but lost on the sense of relaxation in some small degree. I guess much of it is personal experience.

Where I watch all these Million Pound supercars I do not believe that having one of them would have given me anything better. How people reacted to the Coupe remains so much nicer. Money cannot buy genuine love.

That's the full 360 Morgan Aero experience - thank you for sharing :-)

I've used https://www.bipandgo.com/en/ to pay autoroute tolls automatically... it always worked. They only charge a subscription in the months a toll payment is taken.

Will

Sounds like a great trip, despite the occasional hiccup.

Whilst the HdP is very nice, I've always since the late 70's tried to stay when in Monaco at the Beach Plaza, (still might be to be the only hotel with a private beach) when it used to be a Trust house Forte quite modern, with being on Princess Grace Avenue it was always that bit quieter, and only a short stroll to the main square etc. Tried what used to called Loews hotel, which was ok.

It was useful having a HO in Monaco, especially around F1 GP time. I could never get over seeing the elephant in its zoo enclosure on the side of the hill.