Home start no go.
I have a 1989 Talbot Swift motorhome that failed to start a week ago and consequently run the battery down,so introduced my jump power pack to still no avail,so then tried jumping it with my Range,still no go,so then took both batteries out and gave them a full charge,still no go so decided to call up Green flag for my home start,they sent 2 techs (and I use that term lightly) they came from 3 miles away in hemel Hempstead called Courvoisier recovery.2 Polish or Romanian guys arrived.1 young guy asked me to turn the engine over so I pulled out the manual choke on my twin webbers and was told that wasn't the way to start it,i laughed and told him this is the way it must be started !,anyway they put a jump pack on like I had,still no go,so then took the coil lead of the distributor cap and rested it against the metal work,no spark,then looked into the distributor itself,said no spark either,i don't know how they would know that as they are electrical points,anyway they came to the conclusion it was the coil that was no good,sign here please.Ordered a new coil and I fitted it,no start,so called a proper tech to take a look,using his test meteres he soon diagnosed the problem to be the ignition module.Ordered one fitted it and away she went.My gripe is that you pay good money to join this rescue service which this club recommends,you should at least get some guys that actually know what to do,understand English and thoroughly give it a good checking out,insted of gestimating the problem and giving you duff information costing you money and time wasting.
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Green Flag/Mayday have some trained staff but contract out most calls to local garages and you get whoever turns up. - that's well known isn't it?
AA and RAC deal with most calls with their own trained technicians,and that's well known too, isn't it ?
You choose. I choose.
But your old faithful is now 29 years old and serving you well.
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Aren't ALL points electrical? It's just that some carry differing amounts of 'electrical' depending on the amount of electrickery used on the engine .... it's been a while since I've been inside a dizzy. Being fair to the lads that turned up to help you, they were still in primary school at best when your motorhome was built ..... when was the last time you looked under the bonnet & found a dizzy, let alone points inside.
PS the lead from the coil to the dizzy is called the King Lead 😉
PPS Green Flag et all are rescue services . .. not repair services
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I had a flat battery at home a couple of days ago, so called Mayday. They had a technician to me in about an hour who started the car, very smart young man. He checked the electrical system and battery, told me my 2011 battery was knackered.
They don't make 'um like they used to. Anyway I was quite impressed. 1 -
my daughter, whose car is on as an extra car, had the same experience during the beast from the east. MInd you she hadn't moved it for about a week. Still they came out to a snowy street in Newcastle in under 40 minutes.
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I agree but when you neither have jump-leads or another car and no starting handle one needs some help.
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It's an antiquated instrument of torture for skinning knuckles.
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I used to run a 1988 Autosleeper Talisman on a Talbot chassis, when he said 'electrical points' I think he meant ELECTRONIC ignition/points
These were amongst the first vehicles to be fitted with electronic ignition as standard, my old girl....the Duchess never missed a beat, was as slow as a hearse, but VERY reliable. But the cab was as rotten as a carrot and had a rice pudding gearchange. The moulded one piece fibreglass autosleeper body is probably still a very warm watertight chicken shed somewhere.
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Does anyone speak that anymore; even the queen and the BBC gave it up several decades ago?
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