My wife retires next month and we were talking today about what we should do with her car. As it's 15 years old it has little value so really not worth selling. Current plan is to keep it until there are major problems with the MOT. So far it's never failed on anything more than a failed bulb, or a cut in the side of a tyre that we hadn't seen. She values the freedom it gives her to go out and about whenever she wants, and tax and insurance aren't too bad. We used to have a decent bus service but it's a shambles at present. There could be a wait of anything up to 45 minutes on a route with a bus supposedly every 10. A return trip into town by taxi would be best part of £20 so would soon cost as much as car tax and insurance, even at one trip per week.
I suspect my car would need less repair work if my wife didn't drive it. She doesn't like to slow down for speed bumps or avoid pot holes and tends to bounce off the kerbs like a personal game of giant pinball. She came home the other day driving on a flat tyre and admitted the steering had been a bit funny for the last 20 miles or so. The tyre fitter showed me inside the tyre and it was full of shredded rubber.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
KT53, we hung onto our second car till it was 17 years old and failed its MOT with terminal problems. It had served us well while we were both working, and after that, it was the workhorse, trips to the tip, getting left in station car parks or the Exeter Park and Ride, and saving us having to get courtesy cars when the newer car went for servicing. We manage fine with just the one car now, as we usually go out together, or just me on my own ( OH doesn’t have a separate social life!) It wasn’t worth replacing, but had been worth hanging on to, as a back up when needed. At least we got paid when it was taken away, rather than the old days, when one had to pay the breakers to collect it.
Grrr. It has cooled down nicely so I thought I would sit out on the patio in the shade and relax with a cool glass of beer. Lovely to start with, until a wasp thought it would like to join me. I put a drop of beer on the patio table, which it started to drink. That was fine. Then a very big and ugly fly started buzzing around, similar to one that bit OH on the leg yesterday. Back inside, very disappointing.
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Back inside, very disappointing.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.