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Hi all just thought I would share my last few days may help cheer someone up and give them a giggle
On the 22nd Dec driving the mrs and our little god daughter around doing last minute xmas shopping before I returned home to prepare for my annual assessment on the 23rd at 1.30pm.
We had jsut finished been to Asda and sainsburys, mad traffic everywhere started to set of for home pressed the clutch pedal in and LARGE CLUNK pedal fully stuck in no gear selection available
Hazards on traffic coming at me from all angles, Car full of xmas shopping and panacking mrs who is disabled by the way mainly because of the little one in the back
I mangaed to get it in 2nd gear start up and your off until I had to stop again then stall lol every light on red couldnt get another car in front of me if you tried it was a constant effort to dodge traffic and somehow keep going at one point turned corner to leave by pass and stall no power steering or brakes nice back in neutral to roll rest of way round corner
what a nightmare lol eventually got home then started to think how I was going to get to the job with the assessor in the morning a friend offered his car
then my mate who picks my cars for me and services etc offered me one of his
I had text my assessor in the meantime to tell him of my predicament he responded with a text of no problems I will take you to the job and take you back home
This I was truly grateful for and the assesssment went ok no problems 3rd year I have had this assessor and from first meeting him found him a great guy who offers good advice on matters other than the assessment including business advice
I couldnt believe he would go out his way like this and I am someone who wouldnt dream of asking this
My mate got the car sorted as 2 clutch centres said january and ÂŁ300+
he got onto the one his boss uses and got me a cheaper price turned out the clutch had't gone what had happened was the clutch Arm had seized over time causing excess pressure on the pedal box which is fixed to the bulkhead causing it to break away probably the metal was flexing somert like that as I aint a mechanic lol
anyway they picked it up yesterday 30 mins before me ELECSA assessment at 1pm and kept calling me to tell me where they were upto and what the problem was they had to source a second hand pedal box? and free up the arm he said the clutch was good they replaced and rewelded the part and job was a good one
My mate fixes my car usually bit as he was off work it would have meant him stripping it down in the rain
I had a feeling somert was going to happen as the clutch seemed to need pressing down more and felt rougher if you know what I mean was hoping to get xmas over and some better weather for me mate to get it sorted
It all turned out ok in the end lol even if my back pocket is ÂŁ240 lighter but the car was back by 6pm and I was able to pick the pre ordered turkey up today
Hope thats cheered a few of you up knowing I have worse luck than you lot
but on a brighter note there still are some good people left who help when help is needed
and even though the schemes take a large slice of cake they aint all that bad lol
Merry Christams to one and all
On the 22nd Dec driving the mrs and our little god daughter around doing last minute xmas shopping before I returned home to prepare for my annual assessment on the 23rd at 1.30pm.
We had jsut finished been to Asda and sainsburys, mad traffic everywhere started to set of for home pressed the clutch pedal in and LARGE CLUNK pedal fully stuck in no gear selection available
Hazards on traffic coming at me from all angles, Car full of xmas shopping and panacking mrs who is disabled by the way mainly because of the little one in the back
I mangaed to get it in 2nd gear start up and your off until I had to stop again then stall lol every light on red couldnt get another car in front of me if you tried it was a constant effort to dodge traffic and somehow keep going at one point turned corner to leave by pass and stall no power steering or brakes nice back in neutral to roll rest of way round corner
what a nightmare lol eventually got home then started to think how I was going to get to the job with the assessor in the morning a friend offered his car
then my mate who picks my cars for me and services etc offered me one of his
I had text my assessor in the meantime to tell him of my predicament he responded with a text of no problems I will take you to the job and take you back home
This I was truly grateful for and the assesssment went ok no problems 3rd year I have had this assessor and from first meeting him found him a great guy who offers good advice on matters other than the assessment including business advice
I couldnt believe he would go out his way like this and I am someone who wouldnt dream of asking this
My mate got the car sorted as 2 clutch centres said january and ÂŁ300+
he got onto the one his boss uses and got me a cheaper price turned out the clutch had't gone what had happened was the clutch Arm had seized over time causing excess pressure on the pedal box which is fixed to the bulkhead causing it to break away probably the metal was flexing somert like that as I aint a mechanic lol
anyway they picked it up yesterday 30 mins before me ELECSA assessment at 1pm and kept calling me to tell me where they were upto and what the problem was they had to source a second hand pedal box? and free up the arm he said the clutch was good they replaced and rewelded the part and job was a good one
My mate fixes my car usually bit as he was off work it would have meant him stripping it down in the rain
I had a feeling somert was going to happen as the clutch seemed to need pressing down more and felt rougher if you know what I mean was hoping to get xmas over and some better weather for me mate to get it sorted
It all turned out ok in the end lol even if my back pocket is ÂŁ240 lighter but the car was back by 6pm and I was able to pick the pre ordered turkey up today
Hope thats cheered a few of you up knowing I have worse luck than you lot
but on a brighter note there still are some good people left who help when help is needed
and even though the schemes take a large slice of cake they aint all that bad lol
Merry Christams to one and all