Servicing
Posted: Thu 23 October, 2008 Filed under: Domestic, Driving, Thoughts 1 Comment »Once again, my poor old car’s in the garage. Not for anything major, I hasten to add – just that it’s now on it’s 90,000 mile service.
Thankfully, I don’t mind about the mileage – as I’ve said before, the car’s going to be driven into the ground, I don’t expect to get anything more for it when the time comes than trade-in value, so I’m not fussed that it’s coming up for going round the clock.
The courtesy car that the garage has given me this time is a little 1.25 Fiesta, which comes under the heading of “comedy car” in my opinion. Although in fairness, they’re a lot roomier than they used to be – I can actually fit in this one (although I’m sure it still looks funny from the outside) without needing to go into bizarre contortions in order to get behind the wheel.
The only thing that annoyed me in fact was that the garage supplied it with (according to the gauge on the dash) enough fuel to go thirty miles. Needless to say, adding fuel was a priority as the journey to work runs to about 28 miles…
i remember my old astra that did some mileage went round the clock then some, but it was a cheap car to work on for 4 years it hardly cost me nothing to run then the 5th and 6th year it was costing a bit, it was’nt expesive to fix as such but needed lots of little things doing to it so ended up giving the astra to me dad and the astra is still running today doing a 1000 miles a month