Took my lovely new restored Landy for it's first tentative steps, half filled it with the most expensive petrol in Oxfordshire I'm sure and headed off towards Cowley a whole 5 miles away. This was about 11:30 this morning.
I got to the Green Road Roundabout about 2.5 miles from my house and she cut out on the roundabout, yes, you guessed, middle lane front row, almost certainly fuel starvation. I rang the RAC and they turned up inside the hour, in the meantime I rang 101 to report a hazard on the roundabout and while I was on the phone to them a guy in a recovery vehicle used his vehicle to block off the inside land and he single handedly pushed the 109" StationWagon with me in it around the corner to safety. The man was a horse and has my undying gratitude.
The RAC man said the brand new electric fuel pump is broken and he couldn't get a spare and couldn't tow me anywhere because he was in a transit and I don't have a towing eye on the front so I had to wait another 90 minutes for a man with a lorry. who took me to an industrial estate where he was going to leave her overnight on the road to wait for the owner of the repair company to turn up at 9am to find a random Landy sitting outside his workshop. I wasn't happy with that, the least I expected was a secure compound but an unoccupied unsecured industrial estate was not where I wanted to lose my nice new Landy on only her second night with me. So she is now back home.
Could it be something other than a bust pump? she fires up and dies immediately. I'm trying without much luck to get hold of a mobile mechanic before I go much further.
It's time like this I wish I was still drinking.