. . you have had had a lorry in the workshop, awaiting repair?
Couple of weeks.
Contraflow:
Couple of weeks.
Was it a Mercedes?
Suedehead:
Contraflow:
Couple of weeks.Was it a Mercedes?
No.
7 weeks
3 mth long story about it
Going into its third week now.
Went in with the initial adblue problem and get the recall work done.
Too make a short story long a "malfunction in the software " is the cause of the problem.
Product or after service?
Since August 2013 ,I do a bit each week !
Well maybe not so much a case of ‘time down in the garage’ as ‘time down on the road’. Before the days we have now of 'fly- by-wire technology, I’m sure many on here will remember the old F10’s / F12’s.
No mechanical linkages, all air coupled, as were the Issringhausen seats… Nice.
Trouble was, every-now-and-again, a rubber diaphragm in the injector pump would develope a pin hole… short story, the engine would loose revs ( probably why Volvo’s put the hand throttle in for emergency ).
Now as then, and still do I carry basics screwdrivers,adjustables,wireties,fuses,etc,etc.
But on this occasion, I did’nt have a spare pump diaphragm in the spares box. Q. A golden vision. There’s a water hole yonder and it’s just gone opening time…
Landlady:- ’ Yes lav, what will you ‘av…?’’
Me:- ‘’… (quietly) ‘’ you got a machine here ‘’
Landlady:- ‘’ BIT EARLY IN THE DAY FOR THAT SORT OF THING LAV… 
Pulled off Muir Park Monday morning at 11.30 and didn’t make it to Stirling services before ALTERNATOR FAILURE lit up. Into MAN Grangemouth for 13.30 and they gave me the unit to sleep in at 17.00 saying the ZBR ■■? needed replacing and wouldn’t have one until 09.00 tomorrow.
Anyway, couple of pints in Grangemouth, avoid The Tavern, use the Earl of Zetland and back into MAN at 07.00 Tuesday.
Hand the keys over again and off to the leisure centre for a shower and shave. Nipped into Asda, bought new bedding for the cab then back to MAN.
Got the unit back at 14.00 Tuesday afternoon.
If you have ever seen THE GREAT ESCAPE when Steve McQueen is put in the cooler with the baseball, think MAN Grangemouth drivers waiting room.
27 and half hours in total. Most of it on POA and got paid!
beanie:
If you have ever seen THE GREAT ESCAPE when Steve McQueen is put in the cooler with the baseball, think MAN Grangemouth drivers waiting room.
27 and half hours in total. Most of it on POA and got paid!
You say you got paid like it was some kind of bonus?
Getting paid to be at work? OMFG!
Give your head a shake FFS. 
Renault swindon, adblue injector problem on Renault. Needed new pump, injector and exhaust regeneration.
Got there at 2.30pm Friday left 10am Sat, great lads nice waiting room with telly and let me kip in cab on the night up the corner. A b&b or hotel would have been covered by company.
Bit of a back story as it would have been possible to limp her home but wheres the fun in that.
Work colleagues thought I was mad but couldnt leave her on her own in a strange workshop.
Contraflow:
beanie:
If you have ever seen THE GREAT ESCAPE when Steve McQueen is put in the cooler with the baseball, think MAN Grangemouth drivers waiting room.
27 and half hours in total. Most of it on POA and got paid!You say you got paid like it was some kind of bonus?
Getting paid to be at work? OMFG!
Give your head a shake FFS.
Got to agree with that. Are there drivers out there who would spend (any) time waiting for a truck to be fixed, without getting paid?
Three week wait in Portugal, a night nurse mistook the brake and accelerater pedal and skidded on wet cobbled road in to my Scania 142.
Her insurance assumed I was in a van but soon made the garage repair it when they had to pay for loss of earnings .
She nearly cut my legs off as a few seconds later I was getting out of the cab .
Suedehead:
. . you have had had a lorry in the workshop, awaiting repair?
9 months for a faulty hazard warning light switch. You’ve got to love the Forces procurement service. Couldn’t just go down to the main dealers 4 miles down the road, oh no, had to go out for tender to save a few pence. Meanwhile it was serviced every 3 months even though it didn’t turn a wheel and they had to have a replacement wagon to cover it being VOR. Must’ve wasted ££s to save pence.
Firm sent an '03 tanker down south last June with the expectation of it being scrapped/disposed of and replaced. Within days, someone decided to give the barrel & gubbins a 12-yearly and reckoned it to be serviceable, so the plan was changed, to spruce the vehicle up and send it back. However, when they exchanged the analogue tacho head for a digi, the electronics went ■■■■ up. Switch the radio on and the windscreen wipers start or some such. 7 months and it’s still not re-appeared.
When any of our Volvos went in for inspection or service, it wasn’t uncommon for them to be away for a week or two, “waiting for authorisation/parts”…they now go to DAF…
we had a brand new daf 85 430 delivered into us from southampton on the back of a brit european truck in the morning, pdi’d it in the workshop , drove it round to the yard in the afternoon, put it on the southampton night trunk , came out of the depot at southampton and promptly broke down, towed back to the dealer that had delivered it. had to get the driver a lift back to northampton. and after 3 months of phone calls , e-mails , threats of going to CM about a ‘truck of the year’ expiring after 4 hours use, ripping the gonads off the local dealer at a truck demo event. DAF finally sent a new engine from eindhoven to replace the knackered one. usual story big fleet, national order, not dealer direct, back of the queue ,
mind they always seemed the same, iveco lost an 18tonne rigid in their yard, parked it behind some trailers and forgot about it, had to personally go down and point them at it, and we were always at the end of the line at volvo, always seemed to be shed loads of car transporters in front of our wretched ‘lost the gears again’ geartronic FL10