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Woe, woe, and thrice woe
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Yesterday I was backing my van out of the drive and there was this awful scraping sound. Panic. Then I found I had left a stool behind it when I was fixing the roof rack.
PS The sort of stool with legs and a seat.bloggoth
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Originally posted by NickFitz View PostSomewhere at home I must have the bill from when the offside trailing arm went a few years ago.
It took nearly a week to get the part that time. The garage chap explained that "Ford have got the part, they're just not sure where it is" to which I replied "Don't tell me, it's in a box in the loft and they can't remember which one?"
I'd like to keep it going but there are other bits that either need doing or will very soon, so I'm not sure its viableOriginally posted by NickFitz View Post1989 Ford Orion 1.6i Ghia Mk. II
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Originally posted by NickFitz View PostSomewhere at home I must have the bill from when the offside trailing arm went a few years ago.
It took nearly a week to get the part that time. The garage chap explained that "Ford have got the part, they're just not sure where it is" to which I replied "Don't tell me, it's in a box in the loft and they can't remember which one?"
It could also have gone walkies.
Originally posted by NickFitz View PostI'd like to keep it going but there are other bits that either need doing or will very soon, so I'm not sure its viable
Mind you, the spanking brand new car that came as its replacement wasn't too reliable either. It can be a case of "better the devil you know..."Behold the warranty -- the bold print giveth and the fine print taketh away.Comment
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Good news - and bad
The car is now home again with a new trailing arm and handbrake cable (that seems to have been broken by an over-vigorous RAC man), having been trailered up to the local garage who've always worked on it
Total cost: trailer £100, repairs £195; or, £45 more than I paid for the car ten years and 73,000 miles ago
The bad news came when I was settling up for the repairs. The garage is a family business and I was dealing with the owner's son, so I assumed his dad was on holiday, but when I asked after him the son told me that his dad had passed away in his sleep in March
Then, as I offered my commiseration, he added that his mother had died last weekComment
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