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The upside of this is that I now have a full-size spare wheel/tyre NO MORE SPACE SAVER!¬!!!!1 Cheers, cheers etc.
― Pashmina, Thursday, 14 June 2007 14:41 (sixteen years ago) link
one year passes...
Uhhh. This is problem a: I have some sort of sludge all over the dipstick which suggests I've got water getting in there. Please fix. Also there's some oil leaking over the engine.
solution a: The seal on the cap is broken. Oh, we didn't look at the sludge issue. That's going to take us longer, at £50+vat per hour.
problem b: the rear shocks might need fixing, please advise me, before you do the work ('cos this is something I can probably when I'm at my parents over christmas)
solution b: Yep, they definitely needed doing, so we're doing them now.
And a couple of other niggly things.
I could have bought a guitar and a bike and paid off loads of my credit card for what this car's cost me this year. And I've only had it since May.
― chord simple (j.o.n.a), Tuesday, 9 December 2008 15:08 (fifteen years ago) link
2002 Octavia- Brake pads (rear) bushings (front) yearly service-
440 euros. chronic.
and the timing belt to get replaced, another 200 parts + 150 labour.
― darraghmac, Tuesday, 9 December 2008 15:14 (fifteen years ago) link
This is probably something for that 'putting things off thread' on ILE really. That and some weird problem I have of not admitting mistakes to my parents because they'll just go on about how it's just like some thing I did when I was a kid and I'll never learn. Much better to put myself through complete agony and say nothing (see also doing and pretty much failing a degree that I realised wasn't for me after 2 weeks).
Anyway. I can see this coming in at at least £300. Someone please steal my car, or drive into it or something.
― chord simple (j.o.n.a), Tuesday, 9 December 2008 15:25 (fifteen years ago) link
Ah, less than £200. At least the more it costs, the more I'll appreciate that cut in VAT. And it really did need new shocks, I can feel that the back end actually touches the road now.
― chord simple (j.o.n.a), Tuesday, 9 December 2008 18:27 (fifteen years ago) link