For a few months Pippa's fuel pump had been blowing fuses and in the last couple of days it was blowing a fuse every time I got in it so I booked it in to get the fuel pump replaced.
As many of you know, I take my car to Tremona Garage in Southampton (probably the best independent Ford specialist in the South) and I live in Reading so I had a good hour of driving to get it down to have the work done.
Car went through three 10A fuses trying to start her up in the morning, so I put a slightly higher amp fuse in and she roared into life. Drove perfectly all the way there, pulled up outside the garage, left her idling in case it didn't start up again - was sat there maybe two minutes before the car spluttered and died. Figured it had blown another fuse - checked fuse, but fuse was fine.
Long story short: fuel pump held on just long enough to get me to the garage to be replaced before crapping out completely.
A Puma Christmas miracle!
Hopefully I'll get to see the family this year, unlike last year when the thermostat housing cracked shortly after setting off on Christmas Day!
Here she is being tended to by Richard and Malcolm at Tremona: