Survey: type 44 break down frequency

[james accordino]

Stuff like that I don't even count.  I left my lights
on at the airport for a month while on Army duty.  It
was a heavy rainstorm, so I turned on my headlights
and forgot to turn them off when I parked.  Yes, I
know that the IDIOT light chimes when you don't turn
them off.  Anyway I had to push start my car in the
parking lot like an idiot.  But I don't count that as
"stranded", because I wasn't.  That also plays a part.
 The knowledge and resoursefulness of the strandee.

Jim Accordino

--- Ero Rademer <erademer at igd.fhg.de> wrote:
>
> Hi!
>
> I have driven T44 from around 1989 to 1998 and all
> three I had
> have never left me stranded on the road. All of them
> went up to
> way over 200kmiles with only minimal maintenance
> before they were
> sold or wrecked due to accidents.
>
> The only things ever happened were two "0.7"
> strandings. One
> due to my stupidity to leave the lights on while
> parked (battery
> flat) and needing a push-start, and the second due
> to massively
> worn spark plugs (around 80kmiles of service behind
> them) and a
> loooong crank one morning (5 minutes) as a result.
>
> Granted, the models were: a 1982 DR (4cyl 75hp!) and
> a '87 5cyl
> KP engine. These had nothing much to break...no
> turbos, no
> electronics, no A/C, etc...
>
>
>
> Beside this, my actual B4 hat left me on two
> occasions within the
> last 5 years: One dead battery one week after
> purchase (new battery
> fitted under used car warranty) one morning and a
> shot coil
> which resulted in a tow to the next garage.
>
> Happy drivin'!
> Ero.
>
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