Yeah....we are on our way!!! The saga of the wheel has been resolved. Not by any garage because trying to get anyone from Peugeot dealers to look at the hub was like swimming through a bowl of treacle. Impossible. "Oh yes," said the mechanic, "we can look at it but first we need to do a diagnostic and that could be done on Thursday. Then we could book the van in for July sometime." Anyway Ian took matters into his own hands, got Norman to run him down to the storage yard to collect the car, drove to Mansfield where he had managed to source new wheel nuts, cleaned all the threads on the hub and found to his delight not one of the bolt holes had ovalled, replaced every nut, torqued them to 110lb (recommended settings for that make of motorhome) and took it for a 10 mile test drive with fingers crossed. And result. He came back, tried to tighten the nuts again and found they were still at 110lb. So it was a mad scramble to refill the beasts (motorhome) fridge with the removed food, tidy FS and do the necessary jobs like switch off gas, electrics, fridge etc and make the 4-hour drive down to Brockenhurst in the New Forest to meet the more mature of the Jameison and Warren families. By 9.00pm we had found the site but trying to find Alan and Chris and their motorhomes on a site so huge was nie on an impossibility. We must have gone round for 30 minutes trying to find them. To make matters worse both our phones had no signal. In the end, we went back to Brockenhurst where we finally got a signal and managed to phone Alan. So we are now nestled between trees with the vans in a circle (shades of wagon train came to mind) and a fabulous week ahead with the family to look forward to.
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| L to R Brother -in-law Chris, Ians brother Alan, guest Nigel and Ian |
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| And the ladies, L to R me, sister-in-law Angela, Ian;s sister Sheila and guest Deidre. |
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| Amazing what can be put together at short notice. Cupboards raided and a fab lunch for our quests. |
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