Its happened again white van man absolouteley wrecked my left hand mirror big time, whilst driving down nr Saumar looking for a chateau aire stopover, he did stop, I think he thought he had taken the side of my van out, which was inches away, he did pick the pieces up for me,whats knock for knock in French.Had to drive the rest of the way to the new Marjal site in Spain by myself with no offside mirror probably illegal, I had to adjust the rear view camera to give me a chance of survival.After my first smashed mirror on this van, I suppose I have come to accept the stupid design of this mirror at £300 a go its no joke,in its way, as bad as the reversing problems they had in the early days.
At each major place on the way down I tried to find a Fiat dealer, helped by an old Medion sat nav, not the £400 snooper which is useless, unless you want to use it for a tv,due to Medion not being updated by myself the dealers were still there are they had shut down, are typical of my breed there was a language problem, my fault entirely, in fact the only words I know in French or Spanish are do you speak English, this only breeds intolerance in the person you are talking to, and rightly so, I think I would react the same.Anyway got to Marjal, still no mirror,after 3 days my neighbour a Dutchman was visited by a trader, obviously attending to his motorhome,I managed to collar him, he was a young German lad who spoke enough English , which I didnt enquire of, Im learning,told him of my problem, he said he would do what he could, he rung me back 3 days laterto say it would be possible for him to source a mirror, although I know he had terrible trouble between Fiat and Dethleffs in finding the correct info.
Within the week he came one morning with the mirror fitted in 30 mins,and charged me less than the one I had to replace and fit myself 12 months previous,his garage is in Benijofar"Dannys Garage" 966 715 321 a job well done.Sorry for going on so long. Ronboyracer
At each major place on the way down I tried to find a Fiat dealer, helped by an old Medion sat nav, not the £400 snooper which is useless, unless you want to use it for a tv,due to Medion not being updated by myself the dealers were still there are they had shut down, are typical of my breed there was a language problem, my fault entirely, in fact the only words I know in French or Spanish are do you speak English, this only breeds intolerance in the person you are talking to, and rightly so, I think I would react the same.Anyway got to Marjal, still no mirror,after 3 days my neighbour a Dutchman was visited by a trader, obviously attending to his motorhome,I managed to collar him, he was a young German lad who spoke enough English , which I didnt enquire of, Im learning,told him of my problem, he said he would do what he could, he rung me back 3 days laterto say it would be possible for him to source a mirror, although I know he had terrible trouble between Fiat and Dethleffs in finding the correct info.
Within the week he came one morning with the mirror fitted in 30 mins,and charged me less than the one I had to replace and fit myself 12 months previous,his garage is in Benijofar"Dannys Garage" 966 715 321 a job well done.Sorry for going on so long. Ronboyracer