Now, with a little reflection, I'm fairly sure that Dicky Grace pointed this out to me as a possible area for problems when I bought the car, but in the heat of the moment it totally escaped me.
Leaving a car park in the centre of Marlow today my Gran Cabrio totally cut out. Engine stopped, no life on the dashboard, nothing at all. I couldn't get the key out of the ignition and the hazard lights wouldn't work. I was blocking the exit to the car park. Got out of the car and managed to phone the RAC in between waving people round the car. It was lunchtime, so very busy. Not fun at all. Managed to get the boot open using the pull string and checked under the boot floor, expecting to find water. Nope - all dry. Eventually I noticed that one of the battery terminals looked a bit loose. Opened the quick release, pushed it further down the terminal, fastened it back up again and hey presto the car sprung into life. At least I figured it out for myself, rather than having an RAC guy turn up and fix my car in 20 seconds.
Leaving a car park in the centre of Marlow today my Gran Cabrio totally cut out. Engine stopped, no life on the dashboard, nothing at all. I couldn't get the key out of the ignition and the hazard lights wouldn't work. I was blocking the exit to the car park. Got out of the car and managed to phone the RAC in between waving people round the car. It was lunchtime, so very busy. Not fun at all. Managed to get the boot open using the pull string and checked under the boot floor, expecting to find water. Nope - all dry. Eventually I noticed that one of the battery terminals looked a bit loose. Opened the quick release, pushed it further down the terminal, fastened it back up again and hey presto the car sprung into life. At least I figured it out for myself, rather than having an RAC guy turn up and fix my car in 20 seconds.
