Broken Cupra again?

Ohh dear o dear not again… this time it sounds and looks serious. We shall see.

Sitting at Frans getting ready for the journey to mine, still deciding which car to take, hmm lets just go in the Cupra meaning I would need to drive back Sunday all seemed good and we were on our way, little did we know it would end in tears.

M4 traffic was good, a few little races but on the most part some sensible driving if i do say so myself.

We get onto the m25 and i decide to drop into 4th as a scooby estate is trying to undertake me, i changed gear a split second too late hitting the limiter thus causing something to give and the car immediately goes into limp mode with no throttle response.. JOYS!

Over to the hard shoulder we go, still within the “free recovery zone” I called Seat assistance and was told i was a top priority as I’m on the motorway and someone will be there in 10 mins.

10 mins passes and we treck up the embankment of the motorway to see whats on the other side, its only a field, i was hoping for a river or at least some sheep…

Anyway, a tow truck comes, its not the AA…. its a highway patrol vehicle who came to remove me from the roadworks zone.. great!

So he says he will take me a few mines down the m25 to the main depot and i could await my recovery there, back on the phone to Seat assistance letting them know ill be in there instead of along the m25 somewhere…

We make it to the depot and the car is unloaded and the tow bloke vanishes leaving us to a very cold cabin all by ourselves, there were sofas but it was too cold for any funny business, plus the mood was sour, mainly because we wanted tea to warm up but there wasn’t any milk…

Few moments later the real AA man turned up, a young ish bloke who i could tell wasn’t going to find the issue..

I uncovered my diagnostics port ready for him to plug in his device and waited eagerly to find out what the computer had to say, but it told me very little… only that there was a misfire in cylinder four, but I know a misfire doesn’t make the car act how it was so it must be a much larger problem.

I pulled out the coil pack on cylinder 4 and the spark plug chamber was full of water! how the hell did it get in there? head gasket? cracked head, who knows but this is BAD….

We let the car idle and it was kicking out a lot of smoke, water was getting in there somehow and i just wanted to cry.

Deciding its best not to drive the car we arranged to get a tow back to my house.

We waited and waited for what seemed like an age, playing hangman and listening to N-dubz to keep us busy. Finally a large AA truck arrived and we wasted no time getting it loaded up and we were on our way back to mine.

Now all we had to do was figure out a way how to get back to Frans on Sunday What a start to the Birthday weekend I had planned.