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Oval wheel?

just made me think of this ...

http://www.channel4.com/4car/media/classics/austin-allegro/03-large/allegro-colin-cork-007.jpg

http://jalopnik.com/assets/resources/2007/06/skoda_woody.jpg

I do have to admit that one nice side effect of driving a Ford is that my most expensive service in three years has only been $350.

No help to GT40 drivers out there.

Oval wheel?

-- stet, Thursday, 7 June 2007 18:21 (Yesterday) Bookmark Link

One of the back wheels has a flat spot on it, it's had it since I got the car.

I got the new wheel. What a fuck-about! I turned up at the dealership, and they come out with a wheel and a tyre seperate "here you go, three hundred and thirty pounds please". I'm like, "how am I supposed to fit this?" So I had to stand around for 1hr while they put the tyre o the wheel. WTF.

The upside of this is that I now have a full-size spare wheel/tyre NO MORE SPACE SAVER!¬!!!!1 Cheers, cheers etc.

The other upside of this is WOW WHAT A DIFFERENCE. So much smoother & more pleasant to drive.

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.

2002 Octavia- Brake pads (rear) bushings (front) yearly service-

440 euros. chronic.

and the timing belt to get replaced, another 200 parts + 150 labour.

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.

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.