We were at a caravan
park in
Melbourne on Saturday 2 weeks ago about to jump off on a 10 day
camping trip along the Murray. Having packed the Paj I was doing my morning 'first service' when I noticed a puddle of brake fluid under the back axle.
There was a hole in the flexible brake line that runs from the chassis to the back axle letting all the vital stopping stuff leak out.
"Oh my golly gosh" I said to myself "That doesn't look good"
On to the RACV who were sympathetic but not much help - all the contacts they gave me were not able to help until the following week and the RACV would not offer a tow to anywhere as we were not stuck on the road. I considered fixing it myself, but the local mitsi dealers I called did not carry the part.
We finally found some guy about 10km away who would have a look but would not promise anything.
As we were checking out of the van
park I mentioned my problem to the nice lady in the office and she said:
"Have you tried Joe down the road, he might be able to help?"
So off we went to see Joe whose workshop was only 400 metres down the road.
"No problem I can do that - do you want it fixed today?"
"Yes Please"
"No worries, I will get the part made up. Bring it back in in an hour and it will be done by early this afternoon"
We decided to spend another night in
Melbourne now that we had missed our planned early get away so back we went to the caravan
park where the nice lady booked us into the same cabin we had just left by re-arranging other bookings (and she gave us a discount!).
2 hours later the Paj is all fixed (Joe also changed the wipers that were getting old and greased a tie rod end that he heard squeak as I drove in. All done at a great price.
Grateful thanks to 2 Great businesses who I can't recommend too highly:
Joe`s Service Centre (Repco)
73 Ashley Street
West Footscray 3012
03 9362 0024
BIG4
Melbourne Ashley Gardens
129 Ashley Street,
Braybrook Vic 3019
Ph 03 9318 6866 Fax 03 9318 6661
The
camping on the Murray was great too!
Cheers
Pete