Richy’s Fourtrak continues to impress, remaining an invaluably reliable member of his eclectic fleet
2000 DAIHATSU FOURTRAK
My Fourtrak continues to serve up all-round reliability week after week, month after month. It doesn’t see as much use as I’d like it to these days but we stopped using it regularly when the missus was followed home from the shops a couple of times.
Now used solely for enjoyment the Fourtrak is still doing regular motorway runs from Llanelli to Maidenhead and didn’t get hot or miss a beat.
More recently it was time for the MoT and as always it was off to Carmarthen’s Oklahoma Motors for a light service and the test. Hurrah – it passed with no hassle whatsoever. Okay, it’s not done that many miles but I enjoy every journey in it. The DAB radio was a good plan and sitting up high makes a change from how low to the ground you sit in the Daihatsu Cuore and Perodua Nippa that we also own.
Anyway, dropping it off one day and getting it back the next with a fresh MoT certificate on the passenger seat was pleasing, but less pleasing were a couple of electrical gremlins that had been bugging me a lot more than they probably should have.
Now I’m not the sort of person who likes getting in too deep with vehicle electrics. I can change bulbs and adjust or replace points but there’s something about wiring and the power that it contains therein that I don’t like at all. And its mystery is merely compounded when things suddenly stop working.
That was the case with the Fourtrak, whose passenger interior light switch suddenly stopped working and the back door’s internal lock, which operates from a switch on the centre console, went the same way less than
