This morning my normally faithfully Landy let me down.
Bit of history first.
About 3 months ago the car had a little hiccup at low revs. This happened twice and then nothing until last week.
Last week – started the car and it stalled – this happened 3 times on the way to work, then fine again.
At the weekend towed the tin tent on a round trip of 90 miles – absolutely perfect.
Today – started fine and then as I was going up a slight hill a hiccup and then by the time I get to the top of the hill lost all power and came to a stop.
Managed to start again but only travelled 100Meters before coming to a stop.
(Last week thanks to this absolutely fab forum I had my suspicions that it could be the crank sensor. So got one from the boys at ‘Advanced Factors’.)
Breakdown company arrived and at first thought it was a fuel issue, cleared the faults and low and behold the only fault was the crank position sensor. With that I pulled out 1 brand-new sparkling sensor.
10 mins later all fitted and the car purring like a dream.

So from the first little hiccup to total failure was approx. 1,700 miles – of that I was towing for about 1,500 miles

Reminds me of the time I had a Ford Escort which were renown for broken clutch cables, so I always carried a spare one. One day my father visited me in his identical car and as he arrived at my house his clutch cable failed. Fifteen minutes later new one fitted. How come you can't do that sort of thing these days? 3 x FL1 2 manual + 1 auto
5 x FL2 4 manual + 1 auto
Now Discovery Sport P250 MHEV SE

Used to drive a Hillman Imp and carry a spare head gasket along with the tools needed to change it with me. Only ever did one roadside change however. I could swap a head gasket on the Imp in under 2 hours.

Friend of mine in the 60's ran a very highly modified mini 850 bored to 1250cc that required the dry liners to have flats filed on them to fit in the centre bores, on long journeys he carried a spare engine/gearbox unit. The inevitable happened and he stopped under one of those old lampposts with two arms below the lamp, he attached a small block and tackle to one arm, dragged out the spare and proceeded to do the swap. Fortunately a local beat policeman arrived, asked what he was doing, took off his jacket, rolled up his sleeves and helped change the unit. Somehow I feel it would not be possible these days, badly designed lampposts and no beat police my PC is slightly to the right of Genghis
2012 HSE SD4 In Orkney Grey now gone, best car ever.