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Newbie Welcome Area / Hello

« on: 17 December 2007, 23:01:24 »

Hi i've got a 2.2 GLS which for some reason always gets part find stratching their heads, 2 exhaust companies said my car didn't exist even if though they were looking at it

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General Discussion Area / Re: Bacon butty

« on: 18 December 2007, 13:53:40 »

Hot dog sausages, pamesan cheese spnkled on top, on white thick cut bread, mug of coffee and Top gear on the telly, heaven in the afternoon

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General Discussion Area / Re: Lonely without my 'Meega'

« on: 18 December 2007, 15:47:48 »

my man at the car hospital tells me that he did an Omega two years ago and it cost over a grand, valves, valve guides, blah blah blah (stuff over my head) doesn't he realise it's a Vauxhall not a Zonda,or a Massararti, and due to the festivities I may not see it till first week of January.
How can I sleep at nights. and if that nots bad enough he's lent me a Ford Escort, you can call me fat if you want, but it's like trying to get Dolly Parton in to my wifes C cup.

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General Discussion Area / Re: Lonely without my 'Meega'

« on: 18 December 2007, 13:28:16 »

the reciept shows they were fitted 4 1/2 years ago,
I use my 'meega' for long tours only, just 5k per year on holidays and visiting parentals in Wales, it's not long distance but travelling time is stretched by those damn hills on the way , so the 'meega' is perfect for 6 hour journey if you still want to be refreshed afterwards (M6 toll road takes a bashing though as I try to emulate a rocket pilot) , i don't subject it to commutor traffic except to pick up the missus, so I'm feeling agrieved at the moment.

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General Discussion Area / Re: Lonely without my 'Meega'

« on: 18 December 2007, 13:11:18 »

I've got a receipt for the last change and it's just over 29000 miles, ironically i'd just spoken to my tame mechanic to change all at the MOT in Febuary along with oil filters and spark plugs, oh well so much for forward thinking

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General Discussion Area / Lonely without my 'Meega'

« on: 18 December 2007, 12:41:12 »

Popped out last night to pick up the missus, and whoopstiming belt gone, I'm sure most of you have, at sometime, tried to push these stylised Chieften tanks on your own, power steering is a wonderful invention until you haven't got it any more, really it should be an Olympic endurance sport at London 2012. so today the garage that has looked after it for me for the last 3 years have it in their workshops, out of the wind rain and the cold, and they are making those kind of inward whistling noises that only car mechanics learn to do properly during their training. I can only assume that 2008 is going to be a cashless year after I finished paying this bill, but it's so worth it, to get my luxary armchair on wheels back under my butt.
So this experience has taught me three things,

1 Christmas is financially avoidable if you can convince your better half that the car is more important than a new set of saucepans and a turkey roasting tin that she was going to get.

2 That space on the driveway, that until now was the sacred and hallowed ground of the Vauxhall Omega (kiss kiss lick lick) has been ursurped by our sons Suzuki Swift and a Fiat Punto, like bind weeds growing on virgin fertile soil, I think I'll need one of those flame throwers to get rid of them once 'daddies' motor comes out of the hospital.

3 Buy the missus a weekly bus ticket, i know the belt would have gone anyway but these things always happen when it's minus 30 degrees, middle of the rush hour and you've popped out quickly with no coat on and you've not even bothered to change out of your slippers, this morning I'd have been dressed ready for action, the garage would have been open and the sun would have been shining.

So here I am at home, got a day off, but can't go anywhere, I feel I'm Mr Unpopular at the moment, like an ugly women that no one wants to kiss, is there some one out there who can reassure me that life is going to be alright again soon and I shouldn't really be so pessimistic, is my 'Meega' going to be a like a new woman after her cosmetic surgery or a reincarnation of the Elephant man coughing and spluttering to the end of her days.

RDJ