![]() Fortunately, the higher of the dashboard’s two lidded glove compartments conceals a 12V power point, so if the worst comes to the worst I’ll be able to plug in my trusty Garmin portable nav unit and attach it to the windscreen. It has remained that way ever since.Īnd while FM reception is better, the multimedia unit doesn’t seem overly keen to let me make use of the satellite navigation system. Initially, all seemed well, and I headed off up the M5 rejoicing.Ī few miles on, however, the radio started playing up again, refusing to tune into DAB stations that the digital radio in my wife’s Skoda Yeti can pick up easily. They had then tuned the radio and driven the truck some distance out of Charfield, and everything appeared to be working.īemused, I drove back to the dealership, retrieved the D-Max’s fob – it’s keyless – went out and turned on the radio. ![]() I brought the truck back just after 8am several days later, was provided with a clean, almost brand new Ford Fiesta as a courtesy car, and went home to await events.ĭuring the afternoon a receptionist rang to tell me the technicians had taken the unit out of the dashboard no less than three times, checked all the wires and connections, and could find nothing amiss. The D-Max would have to be booked in for a day so that the culprit could be hunted down. I sat there for upwards of an hour and was then told that the problem stemmed from a wiring fault, but, unfortunately, the workshop couldn’t identify which wire was responsible. So I rang the next closest, which was nearly 19 miles away but also in Gloucestershire – M J Fews of Charfield, Wotton-under-Edge – and they told me they could look at the fault in 10 days’ time.īest-known as a well-established Land Rover dealer, M J Fews boasts some of the friendliest service receptionists I have ever encountered plus a comfortable waiting area. Warners couldn’t offer me an appointment for another 13 days, alas. According to Isuzu’s website the nearest dealership to me is Warners of Tewkesbury in Gloucestershire, just over 17 miles away and a bit of a distance to travel to get a faulty radio rectified.īut perhaps that’s the penalty one pays for living in rural Herefordshire.
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