My company car suffered an impact from some road debris. It has been taken away for repair and I have a hire-car from Hertz, a Golf, to live with until mine returns.
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Yet another snowy day
I suspect everyone in the UK had some kind of snow story over the last week. I am pleased to report that nothing bad happened to me.
Long long day
Drive down to Swindon last week was hard because of snow and ice. I now go cross-country from the Telford area down to the M5 near Worcester rather than having to sit in traffic jams on the M6. Trouble is, many of the roads are pretty windy, sheltered, and inclined. There were cars that had …
Car for my eldest
Just drove a nearly new Golf home for my very lucky eldest daughter. She has tried many cars but has been learning in a Golf and it seemed a more practical and longer term proposition than some of the more popular first car choices (such as Fiat 500, Citroen C1) which would not have been …
Testing cars at 17
My eldest daughter turned 17 recently and is taking driving lessons. The instructor, a well regarded independent in the area, seems very good and my daughter something of a natural. She did have a two hour taster lessons on an off road location some months before and seems to have taken to the road easily. …
Car insurance for the young
Had a shock last weekend. My youngest has turned 17 and is taking driving lessons. As expected, she is pretty much a natural and will probably not need many lessons before she can take (and pass) the tests. Unfortunately, all of our cars are automatics which will not let her get practice on using the …
Scotland 08 – Monday
Heading to Skye was an obvious choice give we were already on the main road for Skye via the Skye bridge. We were tempted to go by ferry for part of the journey but saved that for later. I have happy memories of Skye from when I was a child. We set off with no …
Roof box
We have a choice of three cars for the journey to Scotland. My preferred choice was to use my company car: the most comfortable for me, the most fuel efficient, and the one I would prefer to put mileage on. However, even though my company car is a modern Ford Mondeo estate, it is smaller …
Just in time windscreen replacement
I had to wait until yesterday to get my windscreen replaced. Not great given I had first called it in to Autoglass two Saturdays before. They had turned up at my place of work on Thursday the previous week with the wrong glass (so much for call centre staff training) and found that the glass …
So much for 24 hour car windscreen replacement
I got a stone chip on my window last Friday. Fortunately it was near the bottom of the screen located centrally between driver and passenger positions. By midday Saturday, a crack had developed from the original strike to a vertical length of around 4 inches. Still not obscuring my screen. I have a company car …