The lost One Returns Home!!!

[Six-cylinder]

To quote a Friend of mind "no good turn goes unpunished"

 

I bought this 1996 Citroen ZX Turbo Diesel Estate with Avantage trim just over three years ago just because I liked the look of it and at that time would buy lower priced cars on a whim!  I have driven it very little, first my neighbour borrowed it for a while and then my son and all was fine.

 

Then my wife lent the ZX to a friend of hers and we heard very little but as the months passed I suggested he buy it or return it but my wife said he is a friend leave him alone. After 11 months when MOT and tax only had a month to run I asked my wife to contact him and warn him and that maybe he should return the car if only to get the MOT done. We heard nothing and eventually a couple of weeks after the MOT had expired we had a message that it was not running well and he had taken it to a Citroen Dealer for them to sort it and MOT it. Good news but after a few weeks another message came that he could not afford to have it fixed and would have it transported to us. Nothing, so eventually I had to use up a favour and borrow a trailer and collect it myself from the Citroen Dealer.

 

When I collected the car the Citroen Dealer told me the fault was an injector and they would have to remove all four have them cleaned and tested and renew the faulty one, this along with a ball joint and MOT this would be Ã‚£1000.

 

I took the car to my local garage who found when a recently replaced fanbelt had failed, part of the old belt had entangled with the timing belt and moved the pump setting by two teeth but not the cam, they replaced the belt for me along with the ball joint an MOT and service for a fraction of the dealer cost.

 

The car feels unloved and not one of mine any more, maybe I will grow to love it again but at the moment it feels like it was "stolen and recovered" if you know what I mean.

 

 

 

 

 

[worldofceri]

Can't believe a friend would behave that way after you'd so generously lent them the car.  Who would take a '96 car to a main dealer ffs?

[vulgalour]

Always return a car in better condition than it arrived, for no other reason than it's the decent thing to do.  Does look like a smart wee thing, I'm sure that when you've had chance to fettle it and give it some love that the joy will return.

[oldcars]

Sorry if this seems harsh but who the hell would borrow a car for 11 months! I would be feeling like i had to give it back after a few weeks, some folk take a loan of people.

Looks a nice car, like the shape of them.

[Danblez]

Friend you say? This is why I only have a very small number of friends!

[saucedoctor]

Always return a car in better condition than it arrived, for no other reason than it's the decent thing to do. 

 

+ Eleventy. Even company cars I've had have been washed, polished and vacuumed before I handed them back.

[oldcars]

+ Eleventy. Even company cars I've had have been washed, polished and vacuumed before I handed them back.

I must be sad, even washed a hire car i had for a while.

[xtriple]

I must be sadder still, I washed and cleaned a demo car once!

[Split_Pin]

Your wife's friend sounds like a total cunt.

 

Furthermore, if my wife lent one of my cars to someone I would probably divorce her!

[crapcarcollector]

Ahem. I borrowed my best friends Lancia Delta Integrale a couple of years ago, and as I was taking it back thought 'best wash this' and called in at the local hand car wash. Fucking thing burst into flames. Killed it dead.

 

 

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[saucedoctor]

At least you were making an effort!

[brickwall]

I lent  a Kia Mentor to a mate and he returned it with a home service done and with new bog standard tyres. Couldn't have asked for more really.

[fordperv]

Always return a car in better condition than it arrived, for no other reason than it's the decent thing to do. 

 

cannot agree more, i only really borrow mrs fps grandads picasso, even if i have it for an hour ill wash and hoover it, check its fluids etc, if its nice weather and he doesnt need it back quickly i will put a coat of polish on it, he says im daft for doing it, it only takes a short amount of my time, makes him smile and he doesnt even think before saying yes when i ask to borrow his motor as he knows its in safe hands. anyones car would get the same treatment, its my way of showing appreciation. 

[scruff]

Aye good clean and hoover with a brimmed fuel tank as a minimum

[Bren]

You deserve even more shite points because it is an estate.

 

I am sure if you press it into service you will feel the love again.

[tooSavvy]

Friend you say? This is why I only have a very small number of NO friends!

 

... I have had a bellyfull of FU*KWITTS who just think you are put on this earth to service their *whim...

 

TS

 

* absolutely no Ex-Wives were being thought of when formulating this rant... err, DEFFO...

[Six-cylinder]

I can believe it, this afternoon I had a call from another friend with a blown power steering pipe on a modern Ford Kuga, I need a car. So yes the ZX is out on loan again until Tuesday when the Ford dealer say they will have the Kuga fixed.

[Lacquer Peel]

These are great cars, can't believe the chancer friend of your wife and the bigger chancers at the Citroen dealers.

[Cavcraft]

Birds are always really nonchalant about this sort of thing. I'd be going radio if it were mine and they had it that long, which is probably why I'm not going to lend my Vectra to a lad I know who needs a car for six weeks.

[catsinthewelder]

Ms C lent my old Migraine to her mate when I left it sat on the drive for too long (couldn't sell it and didn't want to use it).  Her mate vanished off without leaving a number and let the tax run out leaving me with a fine.  She stopped using it when the tax ran out and just left it in her garden so when my mate needed a car I gave it to him and we dragged it out of her garden with an old 205.  It needed a new battery and a right good wash and trying to tow start it ripped the arse off the 205. 

 

I wasn't best pleased.

 

 

The ZX looks like a nice thing,  hope you can bond with it again.  If you can't do let me know

[The Moog]

Always return a car in better condition than it arrived, for no other reason than it's the decent thing to do.

You could almost have a business. Borrow a shiters car for a week, weave you magick on it, return to happy shiter. You get to drive 50 different cars everyone is a winnah

[Mr Lobster]

Friggin' nora. Some people really are cunts aren't they. That you'd borrow someones car for eleven months, break it and then dump it at a main dealers is cuntery of the highest order.

[Pillock]

There are very few people I'd lend a car to.

There are some people I'd sell a car to on the promise of buying it back if it was in the same condition.

[vulgalour]

You could almost have a business. Borrow a shiters car for a week, weave you magick on it, return to happy shiter. You get to drive 50 different cars everyone is a winnah

 

Any volunteers?  I'd actually love to do this.

[dugong]

Moral of the story: don't lend cars to friends. 

Heaven forbid, you could always give it away to a true enthusiast.

[stuboy]

11months....

 

11 days and i want it back

[MrDuke]

Any volunteers?  I'd actually love to do this.

 

 

No-one would ever want to borrow a car from Angyl on those terms, simply because they'd never be able to clean it to his standards

[londonm]

If some twat acted like that with a car I'd loaned them, I'd put a brick through their front window.

[oldcars]

I lent  a Kia Mentor to a mate and he returned it with a home service done and with new bog standard tyres. Couldn't have asked for more really.

Where is this mate, would he like to borrow the mentors brother??