In the last episode the car got the ‘chuggs’ after another long run but WITHOUT refuelling! A stop and start failed to clear the issue.

This week the car started fine cold. Started fine again as I removed it from storage. It didn’t miss a beat during the 90 minute or so of largely freeway driving.

Stopped to refuel. Added about 40 litres and no ‘chuggs’ on restart! Also, no ‘chuggs’ on starting and stopping the car to put it away.

Annoyingly, there is no real pattern to the ‘chuggs’ or no way that I can reliably make it re-occur which is very, very annoying. Seems all I can do is to keep testing it.

However, I discovered some significant wear on the drivers seat where the handbrake is raised and lowered. Most likely made worse by my fat frame sitting in the seat when operating the hand brake. Something else to add to growing the ‘must fix’ list.