I am now on the M18 going North, not knowing if my car will make it, but for some reason I just want to get home, not ring any breakdown cover company. However as I take the turn off to the A1m, some more bad news, it seems the A1m is closed for road works so I am forced back down the M18 to the Doncaster turn off.

Going into Doncaster I am forced now to go down to 3rd gear to handle all the roundabouts but keep the revs high, I follow the signs until the get less and less and then disappear. I am now back on the M18 and to be honest not sure where I am, as the sat nav is telling me to go back to in to Doncaster. I stop at a service station, get my bearings, but did not want to open the water chamber on the car, in case the steam pushed more water out. I then go from M18 to M62, still with no intention of ringing the breakdown cover company, even though I have paid up and not used them this year.

I now have to dive the car continuously at 4000 revs and as I go downhill, the temp gauge goes crazy, so a very slow journey back up the north east in 3rd gear follows. It felt like i was driving an old Morris Minor, at 50mph.
I got home, stressed and very late, but at least i got there. The next morning, I kept asking myself, why did i not just pull over when I had a chance and ring my breakdown cover company to get them out? As I later found out, that all I need was a few pints of water in the system, I could have been fixed and on my way. Even if I had waited an hour for the call out, I think I would have been home earlier that I was. Even if it had been a bit later, I am sure I would have been less stressed. So do others do what I do? I think they do, when under pressure they just want to get home and will keep going until they are forced to stop and ring their breakdown cover service provider.

I actually could have done a lot of damage to the car and in hindsight was very lucky not to blow the engine or create an accident.