Breakdown

[Fido05]

My speed six 4.3 rebuild decided to let go in pretty spectacular fashion on the M74 after less than 2k miles 😫. Step in Alps Road Rescue and Elvanfoot Car & Truck Services who were brilliant. Arranged for the car to be transported home safely and gave me a lift (35 miles) to the hire car company so I could continue my holiday, back on the road in under 2 hours, brilliant service. OK the highlands isn’t quite the same in a Skoda but hats of to Alps and Elvanfoot Car & Truck Services.

[m4tti]

When you say spectacular, what actually happened ?

[Fido05]

Well, miss fire, loads of error codes and clouds of smoke from the exhausts. They needed their fog lights on behind me!

[Byker28i]

OH NO!
Who rebuilt it - one of the recognised builders?

[BIG DUNC]

Best of luck getting the engine sorted, hopefully under warranty.
Enjoy your holiday.

It is really nice to hear people posting positive experiences rather than complaining about poor service.

[QBee]

Byker28i said:

OH NO!
Who rebuilt it - one of the recognised builders?

Cadbury's, Rowntrees or Fry's?

[Fido05]

Yes rebuild done by one of the most respected players so under warranty and confident they will sort it. Engine is coming out so will update once I know what exactly went wrong but looks like starting all over again so we’ll probably miss quite a lot of the summer and have to run it in all over again. Never got a chance to find out what a 4.3 speed six feels like on full song, someone tell me it will be worth another wait.

[KillerJim]

Would be nice to understand the technical report or reasons for the failure, if you feel like sharing