The last four days of training completed, we can leave the Jaï we keep a very good memory (from the lack of fountains !) We drive Saturday 16 morning to Aix-en-Provence where Ronald take a carpool to make a return on Cannes to honor an appointment (thank you for Zusje management Blablacar, 20 Euro trip instead of a minimum of 55 euro Trainer, anyway I think the train now takes its share of the two largest carpooling sites).
Towards the tourist office to get the city map ; I came across a great employee who Baroude younger and quickly suggest me best : Park Chest (it is a river) where we will find free places, fountains and the municipal swimming pool not far if we want to take a shower, it all just steps from downtown (friends motorhome take note !). Actually there are some camper vans including one on the same parking lot with the owners which we sympathize after a walk in the park.
We visit the 20 morning for the testing of TNT Beziers (it was on the road and this is the cheapest we found : 49 EUR) so ride all afternoon Tuesday through Arles, Saint Gilles, Vauvert, In the middle… The gates of Béziers we stop for the night in the fields Boujon-sur-Libron where we feel the cold fall.
Old bridge to Beziers
The Old Bridge
The next day we found pretty quickly Autovision center on a street that seems familiar to me : I was introduced right here hitchhiked there not so long ago ! We leave TNT his visit to see the hotel right in front following clutch problems. They all know in the area and the hotel comes with Christophe we see the motorhome. Bad news, we need to change the clutch, that our vehicle is a model increasingly rare where the pretty price 410 euros HT. If we can still roll, the risk of breaking the clutch grows with the miles. Know-how, honesty and sympathy of the hotel we decided to do the repairs here. He commands the room but can not make the change on Monday 25 (there for between 4 and 6 hours, therefore in 250 euros labor), He then offers us the simplest way to stay on the ground of his garage with water and electricity until.
View of the Saint-Nazaire Cathedral
View of Old Bridge
That is decided mainly at technical control more bad news ahead, must change both rear tires to validate. Back to the garage then First Stop a little further where TNT sees fit two new shoes for the modest sum of 132 EUR (poses with, tires used reconditioned, good material for half the price, yes our tires are as clutch, a little harder to find !) He deserves it after all, we have not had any big charges on TNT since its purchase there nearly four years.
Saint-Nazaire Cathedral and St. Celsus
Locks at Béziers
MFK validated (against free-visit), races for five days made, we sit on the pit garage Mecanique'L (Avenue Pierre de Coubertin, if you want a mechanic Béziers !). Christopher tells us the key to the gate so that we could come and go, and the code of the box Internet. Do not, we will not need the fridge, ah extra heating yes why not. You know how many garages ? ! Heating we will only have the weekend and although we have with us a Japanese stove we are still waiting for cold weather to turn : it makes oil savings and then it hardens !
Locks Fonserannes
The nine locks
After a summit meeting in response to recent events, we decide to take advantage of this forced stop looking for work. With our finances, it was Spain or clutch ! Check aborted, instead I take you visiting Béziers where there is not the mechanics who are sympathetic. Welcome to the tourist office is just as warm and then we ask for in a music store if they know a cafe in the corner to scan a document, the boss proposes to do itself.
Throughout the article and in the Snapshots gallery you can see the Saint-Nazaire Cathedral and St. Celsus Gothic style of the fourteenth century, view of the Old Bridge. The latter spanning the Orb. A view of the countryside after they boarded the Cathedral, the latter and back down once the river (yes he had to spend time !). A general view of Béziers on the shore where we were staying, then nine Locks Fonserannes the mid-eighteenth century, located on the Canal du Midi. Despite the cold and rain, Béziers looks like a nice town.
I think about that time Ford, you have to remove the engine to change the clutch. In all cases, labor is not excessive. The workpiece against ..not glop !
Have you then check that it was on about the price ? Would not change anything on this one, but gain experience in the field.
There garages (very little) who agrees to do only labor, you can buy yourself even your room. There is one not far from home.
You are left for 4 ans sans frais ..j’espère 🙂
It must be quite, solidarity garages …you will tell us.
Yes we checked the price of the room that was accurate, he told us that we could buy on a used site if we wanted, but it was no problem mounting, there was no guarantee anything for later. We preferred it goes through its usual supplier. On the list of things to check on the technical control he has pushed most (d’autres nous auraient sûrement dit qu’il fallait tout changer 😮 ) and verified a couple. He showed how Ronald whether to change this or that piece by simply saying “you do not need me for that”. Rarely heard of a so honest mechanic !
Four years I do not know, after chemical toilets to find or buy (ours from giving up the ghost) we will have to redo the cell one of these four (ah ben voilà quatre c’est bon haha 🙂 ) ! For mechanical solidarity I would try many garages where you rent the tools and location, then you can be helped by people on site (association) but it is you who do your repairs.