Cars of Crackers: Wagon In

[Split_Pin]

You're not gelling with that car!

Home safe.

[High Jetter]

  On 05/04/2025 at 20:27, Crackers said:

Fuck my life. 

All because of a single poxy tyre. 

I hate cars. So much. 

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Crap. Coming to Flower Farm tomorrow to forget about it for a while?

[SiC]

Not on RFT any more?

(I don't blame you if you're not. I just hope the fix-a-flat doesn't make a journey for me an ordeal one day)

[Crackers]

  On 05/04/2025 at 22:39, SiC said:

Not on RFT any more?

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Nope, PO put on non-RFTs and I'm continuing with that for the replacements. 

It's bulged and split the sidewall, so utterly knackered it. Needs new rears anyway so the tyre cost doesn't bother me, it's just the hassle of waiting 3 hours for recovery, having to get a rental car for the rest out of trip, and having to take a day off work this week to come up and collect the car from Manchester after the new tyres go on. 

Pisser. 

[SiC]

You're really are not having much automotive luck recently!

[Crackers]

  On 06/04/2025 at 09:34, SiC said:

You're really are not having much automotive luck recently!

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Tell me about it. 

[Crackers]

We're back in business, picked the car back up today and had a genuinely very nice drive from Manchester to the south coast. 

Except for it pinging up a spurious bulb failure warning 20 minutes into the trip. Give me a fucking break! 

On the positive side, it looks like the tyre fitters have scratched the alloys more than they already were, so hopefully I can get a partial refund, to put towards the wheel refurb I was going to get done anyway. If the alloys were mint I'd be pissed, but they're needing work anyway. 

587 miles, 32.4mpg. Meh. 

[Crackers]

Got to be said. These are a lovely looking car in silver.