Quote Originally Posted by Sir C View Post
My Dad's car suffered a voltage regulator failure on the M4 on one trip. By the time we got to the services near Bristol it was late (midnight?) and the battery was starting to fail. There was a 24 workshop round the back of the services for trucks. They looked at the car, diagnosed the problem, sent a lad on a motorbike into town to wake up the owner of a parts shop and bring the part back, fitted it and we were on our way inside a couple of hours. Even made the ferry. Different times.
The worst bit was getting over the Severn Bridge, only to realise you still had another three hours or so to go.