First of all the traffic was so bad I considered getting out and walking (I am working on the fitness to bike it soon) Then not 2 days after I was telling someone (who asked about my ute) that it's been really reliable, never breaks down...well guess what happened this morning! 
Was going round a left hand bend onto a busy main road, went to give it some gas to get moving, engine died
Had enough momentum to ditch it into the kerb, just out of the way of the turning traffic. Trying to re-start, engine was dead as a door nail, not even a hint of firing again. After 5 minutes of swearing, shouting, cranking, head-banging...I calmed down enough to realize I was 10 feet away from a petrol station - put it in 1st and used the starter motor to limp up the driveway, pushed it into an empty parking spot. Asked the servo staff if I could leave it there for the day and organized a tow truck for 4PM, and I was a little late for work. During the day I had time to think it over, what could cause it to die so suddenly and terminally? I bet it's the ignition module that came in that rebuilt Mexican dizzy. I'd read horror stories before about these things dying suddenly, with no hope of starting again. So I was back at the car by 4, got a phone call to say the guy was 1/2 hour away...an hour later he rolls up
And I got home in a tow truck. 2 minutes to dig out my old dizzy, extract the (working?) Hitachi ignition module, pop it in place of the old (Mexican) no-name no-marking module, engine fired on the first crank Think I'm going to have to buy another as spare, put together a small tool box to keep in the car and throw the spare module in there too. Out of the few times this ute or my old wagon has let me down and left me stranded, pretty much every time it has been ignition related, it will be sweet to get that EDIS working on the wagon and not have to live with this crap anymore. I'm convinced every factory ignition option for the EA81 is pure un-reliable garbage.
Anyway, all good for now. But another funny thing that happened today; while I was standing by the car in the servo waiting for the towie, another car rolls up in the spot next to me...broken down!
They called the RAA, who I don't bother with anymore going by my last experience with them. I thought it was funny having 2 broken down cars sitting there, I jokingly said (with a chuckle) to the RAA guy "Don't spose you could look at mine while you're here?"...
Should have seen the look on his face! could have turned milk bad. He didn't say a word, looked at me like I was an alien, and stuck his head under the other bonnet. Absolutely no sense of humor, I can only laugh when people react like this
Long story short, keep a spare module !!! either in the car or in the shed, they DO go bad.
