The night before...

I've been getting ready for the tour all week, there's always so many small things to organise and so many loose ends to tie up. I tried to start the car the night before we were going to leave and it wouldn't start, panicking I asked a friend if he could jump start my car, but his van wasn't working. We thought it might be a good idea to try and bump start the car so I had three guys push my car down the road while I dropped the clutch and threw it into second gear. This didn't do anything so I had to call the AA, this is not ideal the night before leaving for a 5 country, 10 date, 2000 mile tour. The AA man arrived, a right jolly fellow, and had a poke around the engine. The spark plugs, the original suspected culprit, were fine so I thought that it might be something serious. The AA man thought he knew what the problem was... Apparently on Fiat Puntos there is a fuel-line kill switch behind the material of the wall of the passenger footwell, this can be set off if there is serious trauma to the car, like a crash, or simply if someone knocks it with their foot. Thankfully, this ended up being the problem and all it took to fix the car was a simple flick of the switch... what a relief! Thanks a lot to Stef, Dan and Ed for all the pushing and keeping me calm when I was in a bit of a panic. I went to bed knowing that everything was totally sorted and that we were ready for the tour!