10 January 2011

What is it with this car?! Before christmas it ended up in a garage for three weeks, to have a new drive shaft fitted, the petrol guage doesn't work, so i have no idea how much petrol i've got (apparently to fix it the whole tank has to come out) and now today it is a flat tyre, and not just any flat tyre, oh no.

The recovery driver arrived in a reasonable amount of time and straight away said it wouldn't take long. Why did he have to say that, doesn't he know that as soon as you say that something will go horribly wrong?! Anyway, to cut a long story short, one of the nuts had been put on so tightly that he couldn't undo it, and another had lost all of it's angled edges so was smooth, so he said he would repair the tyre so that i could get to a garage, that didn't work, so he tried to remove the nuts again, this time successfully, only to find out that the spare tyre (that came with the car when we bought it) should go on the back (the car is a 4 wheel drive), not the front where the flat had been, and not only that it is smaller than the others. He then told me as it was smaller it would be ineffective in wet conditions (it was raining at the time) and that i would have to drive straight home very carefully. So i did what most peole would do, drove to work, then left early so as to avoid the rush hour traffic!