One of my biggest travel fears occured.

[Treeman]

300 km from home 60-70 km from tar and totally unrecoverable - fix in the mountains stuff.
Screenshot_20240818_181748_WhatsApp by David Frank Allen, on Flickr
Trying to explain to farmers area mechanic where we are on the farm, its amazing up here, real mountains and they go on and on and on.

[Treeman]

I heard a noise about two weeks ago and had it checked, they said upper control arm was worn, it was booked in for Friday, but the mechanic ended up in hospitable for a knee operation. It was not the control arm, as we found out.
20240817_171636 by David Frank Allen, on Flickr

[Treeman]

Fighting insurance now, they trying to send a tow truck to fetch it, how do you make these clowns understand that their R2000 will not cover getting a tow truck to site, only to have the driver tell you that he can not get to where I am. They insist it must be towed out.
Like how ?

[oafpatroll]

That's a mess. Can't think of any way other than bringing mechanic and parts to the problem. Good luck and I hope you get it sorted without to much pain.

[oafpatroll]

Considering how you use your vehicle it might be worth looking at a specialist 4x4 insurance policy which includes real allowances for recoveries.

[Againstthegrains]

That's what happens when you take a Ford in to the veld

[Treeman]

That's what happens when you take a Ford in to the veld

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Yes this is not a thing Toyota drivers would understand.

[Treeman]

Got vehicle back, its a 2011 model - Ford calls it obsolete, no spares - country wide courier work for all parts needed.
 13 years old and Ford no longer has spares ?

[Ds J]

Try Vredefort Scrapyard; said to be the largest in quite an area:

0569310017

0824947793

[Treeman]

Try Vredefort Scrapyard; said to be the largest in quite an area:

0569310017

0824947793

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Not those kinda parts, the parts we needed are replace new stuff - ball joints, CV joints (inner), not stuff u do second hand.

[Newton]

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Not those kinda parts, the parts we needed are replace new stuff - ball joints, CV joints (inner), not stuff u do second hand.

What is the current status Treeman ?
Those sorts of parts can normally be sourced .. GENERIC !
CV joints can be rebuilt

See how these guys do it

Trail Mater MOAB UTAH

On vehicle welding machine - and .. "other stuff"

Do not know of anything similar in SA ?

[Treeman]

Vehicle is running, but the front CV supplied is very noisy. They say the angle of operating is different to the older model. So we still scratching.

[oafpatroll]

Vehicle is running, but the front CV supplied is very noisy. They say the angle of operating is different to the older model. So we still scratching.

Hate to be the bearer of bad tidings but I guess you know this already. A noisy CV is not long for this world.