Triumph Navigator suit

Triumph came back to me today (all credit to them for a quick response) and have told me to take the suit back which is what I'll do.

Back to my old suit for the time being!

 

I took the suit back to Destination Triumph this afternoon and met the new sales manager Mike.

Lovely bloke and refunded my money with no issues. I'm not sure I'm going to spend it on some more waterproofs though as my car has had to be scrapped as it's beyond economical repair and I've had to get another car

 

Yes, a seized turbo. Thought to be caused by oil starvation as the oil level was below minimum apparently. It wasn't 3 weeks ago so I don't know what happened. No oil warning light, no temperature or engine management warnings.

Estimates of £1500+ would not be out of line. Then they are reluctant to replace the turbo without finding out if there are other issues with the engine causing the oil starvation. They don't want to take the engine out and I don't want them to as the cost will rocket. The car is pretty bashed about anyway with dents and scratches and a serious dent that will cost between £700 and £900 to repair. Similar age and spec models with less miles and good bodywork are on Autotrader for around £2500.

Seems a great pity to have to scrap the car when everything else is working well but I can't see any other way round it. The dealer gave me a part-ex on it in the end and as I was going to change the car anyway it's just forced my hand.

Still cost a lot of money though....

 

It's only money Dave ........

 

Talks dirty I suppose (being a washing machine)

 

Oh dear... I'm not sure I'd be able to control myself....

Do you get to choose the voices?

Which reminds me of Brigitte Bardot on Desert Island Discs. When asked "what would be your luxury item?" she answered "appiness". Work it out yourself...

 

Too much....

 

Steve - yes a bit of a blow. You did well though. I did think about just getting it away from the dealers and trying something like that but I wouldn't have anywhere to keep it until it went (if it did). I was less than happy but didn't think I had any choice. In the end it was spend £1500 at least (on a car worth £2500) to get it running with no guarantee there wasn't any other damage to the engine or let them have the car and get another one as soon as possible. Although I can live without one most of the time my wife needs one to visit her very elderly parents twice a week on the other side of Worthing and a car is the only viable way. Also we're driving to Spain at the end of August with the dog to stay with my old band mate at his casa rural (great place for biking btw - little traffic, brilliant roads and Casa Zalama is a real treat) so a car was needed quickly!

In the end they gave me £600 in p/ex and I bought an 18 month old Berlingo with only 5000 miles on the clock (which oddly enough was the model I was originally went to the dealers to buy 7 years ago!). I still reckon I was taken for a bit of a ride given that there were 2 brand new tyres (it was due an mot) and £40 worth of diesel in the Picasso. I should have thought about it at the time and got them to siphon it out and put it in the new car but being the useless tosser that I am I didn't think about it!

Dave: I thought you were going for a Speedy rather than a Tiger. Change of heart?

 

Thanks Steve.

Taken for a ride. Perhaps I should write a song about it....

I had a Saab 9000 for 7 years. Brilliant car but expensive to run and with 180,000 on the clock it was starting to need a lot of attention (not as much as a Citroen with less than 80k on the clock!). I still miss it though

Sorry to hear about the extent of the bike damage. Good luck with finding another one. When I spoke to the manager at Destination Triumph in Washington (10 miles north of Worthing) when I took my suit back he reckoned they were reducing a lot of prices so it might be worth trying them as they have place at Solent as well that's not too far from you in Winchester.

Hopefully the trip to Spain will be OK but I've got to get to France first and Kent appears to be a no-go area ..... hopefully it might have settled down by September.

 

Good luck Steve