Car breaks down while going up Genting Highlands

February 11th, 2008 Submitted by: Adrian

Here’s a picture of my car (Opel Vectra 2.0) loaded on top of a Flatbed tow truck up in Genting Highlands at approx 1:30 in the morning! Just had to take this picture for memories sake! What was supposed to be a drive up to Genting for a quick get away ended up in a night to be remembered. The car broke down at 11:30pm and the two truck drive got to us by 1:30am! Spent the next 10 minutes or so loaded the car and another 10 mins or so driving up to the top of Genting so that we can do the “U-turn” to drive back down towards Sunway Damansara where my workshop is. We finally reached at 3:30am and got back home by 4am!

I seem to be using the tow service quite a bit recently. he he. Am going to overhaul the engine totally so as to eradicate the problem. I guess old age caught up with the engine finally. The cam shaft bearings and piston sleeves have to be changed and rebored. Hopefully that would solve the engine oil pressure problem. Genting was just too tough on the engine. I was surprised coz the engine was just top-overhauled a week prior to this breakdown. What a bummer!

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