Rescue is near - Hamburg's hope

Rescue is coming in the form of a Land Rover mechanic from Hamburg.
On the phone, he sounds as if he has seen worse, or successfully repressed it:
"Come over, I'll read the electronics and the error log. Then we'll know what's going on."
Exactly the mix of pragmatism and comfort I need right now.

Taking fever at the disco

On-site, Mr. Blaumann plugs in his diagnostic device. Takes the car's temperature.
Error codes flash on the display as if they had attention deficit disorder.
“I don’t see so many error messages every day,” he says, not smiling.

This is both reassuring and worrying. He says he can help, but not until November at the earliest.

Pilgrimage to the temple

Because impatience rarely sleeps, we try the official Land Rover temple.
On the phone: “You can wait for it, maximum 90 minutes.”

On site, however, “waiting for it” means: “Please come back tomorrow.”
Good. We'll come back tomorrow.

4 p.m., day two

"We've done a diagnosis. Lots of errors. Also missing a sensor in the roof.
You can't drive like this, and you can't even stand it upright. That's 380 euros.
Repair? At least 2,000 to 2,500."

I nod politely, am taken aback by the term roof sensor and simply don’t understand anything,
because our problem is at the rear: two air bellows, a valve unit, a compressor, two level sensors.

But hey, today is apparently “everything is connected” day.

Result: lots of calculations, little solution

So back to the mechanic, who only likes short sentences on the phone
(“Come next week, let’s see if anything works”), but all the more functioning cars.