DENVER TO COLORADO

DENVER COLORADO

Well here I am in a truck stop (Freight Line Denver)

There we were driving happily in the Rockies National Park, on what is said to be the most beautiful road in the whole of America, it was closed by the way at the very top because of snow and ice, and we had decided to drive as far as we could. When I heard this awful grinding noise from the front of the truck after a couple of inspections and listening by us and some people who came over to speak to us about the trucks infact they got very excited I think we could have sold them on the spot!! Anyway we decided to go back down the mountain and ring the AAA, it was brakes or bearings we had finger crossed for brakes AAA came another inspection, it was decided a tow truck was needed, so I went the 75 miles to Denver on the tow truck, to a 24 hour truck stop, Les and Margaret arrived about 1.5hrs after I had arrived, Les had quite a big oil leak which he decided to get this fixed at the same time. At one point I was in the garage minus the 2 front wheels and hubs and Les was in the garage with no engine. Cylinder head gasket had gone, but it was the original on the vehicle which will be 20 years old next year!

Les was fixed in the day, although my problem is not a big job here in the US there are NO parts and as it turned out no possibility of getting any, but I was not told that, until Wednesday night when I was told the parts would not be here for 2 weeks, I was not happy I could go home buy the parts and come back with them quicker then that. What they were going to do was buy the parts from |Canada this would mean the parts would come from Germany go into Canadian customs then get shipped to the US going into the US customs each time in customs takes at least 3 days!!!!! Soooo we decided to send an email to the Mercedes Garage in Wolverhampton (Wayne) he knows me, he knows my truck, then I would ring him first thing in the morning (this would be afternoon in the UK) Wayne had all the parts ready I paid him with my card the parts will be on a plane by 10am Friday, with luck will be here next week. I then had to go and tell the people here what I had done. To say the least those guys were gobsmacked !!!!!

Tomorrow I am going to stay in a hotel downtown Denver until next Wednesday, by which time I hope I may be back on the road…………….Watch this space