My only experience of "engine trauma abroad"
The first time I drove myself on the continent was about 7 years ago in a '99T LDV Convoy van (the one with the 2.5Di Transit engine). It had recently had "work" carried out on the engine after overheating and seizing... The job was from Bedford to Cergy-Pontoise on the outskirts of Paris - no prizes for guessing where I was when one of the valves seized, rendering the engine a 3-cylinder unit! Cergy-Pontoise, that's where. And you can imagine my then boss's attitude to the purchase of AA 5-star cover.
Luckily, common sense told me to let it cool down and see if it un-seized itself. I did, and it did. Made it back without further incident (well, except having to bum-shuffle across to the furthest passenger seat at the McDrive thru in Boulogne - too shy about my French speaking skills to embarass myself in front of a whole restaurant, too hungry to go without).
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AA Car Components Guide (1984) new
AA Car Components Guide (1984) new