whats pissed you off today?

[PicklesSE8]

Taking my car in for what I hoped would be a £15 puncture repair, turned out to need new front discs and pads, brake fluid, anti roll bar links, a number plate light and an MOT (which expired a week ago). To top it all, the slow puncture was actually a cracked alloy An expensive day

[Benn]

Where the funk did you take it? Kwikfit?

[Spudly]

As above, they proper saw you coming im afraid

[PicklesSE8]

Not really, I work there so saw everything that needed doing

[Spudly]

No offence but you really need to take better care of your motor then mate, i know exactly what does or doesnt need doing on both my car and my van, never let the mot or tax expire and anything that goes wrong gets sorted immediately, nova needs nowt doing, and the van needs a pair of arb droplinks fitting which ive got, but not got round to doing!

That way nothing barring a sudden failure, can creep up on you and leave you with an expensive trip to the garage!

As said, i dont mean that to sound like im having a go, just making an observation!

[PicklesSE8]

Yea I know what you're saying, didn't realise how low the pads were and never thought the wheel would be cracked (its on the inner edge), first sign of any problems and I'll get it looked at, was just a bit of a shock but certainly didn't know the MOT had run out At the end of the day its my wifes car so I'd never intentionally let her drive something that isn't safe (hence todays £500 bill)

[Spudly]

Fair play mate, like i say that sounds harsh but i dont mean it that way at all, i used to be like that, ignore lights and wait till tyres burst before replacing them and such, but its sooooo much cheaper in the long run to jump on problems and fix them as they arise

[PicklesSE8]

Yea thats cool mate, obviously tyres and things that you can see I get done straight away, also I've got a new alloy arriving tomorrow as I didn't fancy getting this one fixed (it's a 19" Vectra C snowflake which I think are quite prone to cracking anyway)

[chrisd1986]

Fair play mate, like i say that sounds harsh but i dont mean it that way at all, i used to be like that, ignore lights and wait till tyres burst before replacing them and such, but its sooooo much cheaper in the long run to jump on problems and fix them as they arise

I try and be like this but when turbo, clutch, full exhaust and a cambelt kit is due on a vw and xmas is coming im thinking I need a new car altho I did fit 4 new tyres this year

[dgbnova#1]

Omg were to start went to tax van mot expired
Take van for mot fails on screen wash jets, rear disco lights, headlight high on os, and wheel barring on ns, advisoryb on cv gators.
Not to bad unless you have a torn mussel and in major pain.
Wheel baring hung on till the death exploded the whole 9 yards it was a bitch to do.

Tryed to insure somethin else instead and van insurance is only swoop to another van so instead of resting my arm had to get van fixed and now got to re test tomorrow but will be to late to work by then so no rest today and now now working tomorrow not a happy man.