{"id":285450,"date":"2026-02-07T09:26:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T09:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/285450\/"},"modified":"2026-02-07T09:26:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T09:26:11","slug":"adrian-weckler-no-fix-no-tow-no-taxi-my-story-of-ev-breakdown-hell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/285450\/","title":{"rendered":"Adrian Weckler: No fix, no tow, no taxi \u2013 my story of EV breakdown hell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\nVolkswagen offer a \u2018round the clock\u2019 mobility guarantee, but in this case it appears not to apply if left stranded on a bank holiday weekend&#8230;\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Stuck on the Wild Atlantic Way: At 2pm on Sunday, Adrian was told that a tow truck would not be available until Tuesday\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/2928325e-692a-445f-9716-9d935d0487be.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Stuck on the Wild Atlantic Way: At 2pm on Sunday, Adrian was told that a tow truck would not be available until Tuesday<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">This is a cautionary tale about EVs and breakdowns.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Last Sunday, on a bank holiday driving break along the Wild Atlantic Way, my 10-month old Volkswagen electric car (EV) broke down. Although nearly fully charged, it wouldn\u2019t start.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Volkswagen offer a \u2018round the clock\u2019 mobility guarantee, but in this case it appears not to apply if&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":285451,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[8819,72,61,60,279,15467,32864],"class_list":{"0":"post-285450","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-adrian-weckler","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-review-magazine","13":"tag-volkswagen","14":"tag-wild-atlantic-way"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285450\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/285451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}