Well this saga is about to come to an end and this is it. On our way back from Porto airport on Monday the 2nd April we stopped for fuel and the car i had was a diesel. Nothing unusual here in Portugal as they seem very popular. Well i stopped at the pump and put 10€ into the tank and started the rest of the drive back to the hotel where the people i had picked up where going. A couple of Km down the motorway i just realized that i had just put petrol in at the last stop. Well this is a diesel car Oh dear what was going to happen all i could imagine was that the engine would stop in the middle of nowhere on the motorway. I was lucky that the next turnoff was where i came off for the drive through to Penacova and then onto the hotel between Arganil and Tabua then for me home and to bed.
We got of the motorway ok but i was worried that maybe the petrol in with the diesel would cause a problem at some point. Ahead was a turnoff where you go to get the Mot done when you get your car Matriculated and across the road is a petrol station. This time i was careful to put diesel into the tank. As the car never stopped with the diesel and petrol mix i can only guess that the car had more diesel than petrol but i was very lucky not to have stopped with a damaged engine.
Now after topping up it was just case of getting to the hotel. Oh speaking of the hotel the direction i had where in my car but i was not in my ca i was in a courtesy car. Mentally what was i going to do and the only solution i could think of was to go to the wedding venue and get direction from there. As luck had it i was told where the groom was and there i met the hotel owner who took the party on to the restaurant that the groom was at and then took me to the hotel so i would know where to pick them up from for the wedding day celebrations. I made sure that i got the savnav directions so next day it was easy just ask the satnav to get me there and it did without a hitch.
All i had to do now was collect the wedding party up and it was job done until i had to take them all back to the hotel at night. A scary few days but all done everybody seemed happy.
The problem of misdiagnose with the car was that they did not switch of the gas from there machine. When i got the car back it was still not running the way it should but when i explained to the garage here in Gois they knew just what to do and in a short time they found the correct problem and fixed it. All seems right now iand i don't expect to have any more trouble.
Well that's the end of my nightmare week. Now it's back to normal life here in My place in the Sun.
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