Panda collection

[andyberg]

Morning. No early start collecting going on here! Off to get my wife's new car. It will involve 2 border crossings though 😂😂.

No brekkie yet as hoping for some fast food from a quality* burger establishment.

Poo count =0 ( disappointing I know)

[andyberg]

First transport

[andyberg]

Second transport, not the Vectra!

[Cookiesouwest]

Best of luck. Chopspeed

[andyberg]

No chod in here. 

[andyberg]

Ah temple meads, Bristol's finest transport hub...

[andyberg]

Missed my scheduled train because of commuters getting on the bus at every stop! How very rude. So time to get brekkie, no burger place in sight so I went to the ' pasty shop' where I bought the ultimate breakfast roll ( their words) ok then whatever....

[andyberg]

See told you it was a great place 🤣

[andyberg]

Ah a foreign country awaits me... However the train keeps getting delayed, now supposed to arrive at 9.45 instead of 9.27 🙄 and this is before the strike

[andyberg]

It has arrived, no idea which type of train it is. I only remember the intercity 125 from my youth!

[andyberg]

Managed passport control 🤣

[andyberg]

Next transport, good old rail replacement coaches. Must bite my tongue...

[andyberg]

Change of coach, a neoplan triaxle, that's more like it 😁

[MJK 24]

That’s an apology of a breakfast roll!

Good luck…

[andyberg]

🙄road is closed to final railway station so now I have to wait for a rail replacement minibus from here. No sign of it yet and know one knows when it will be here...

[Grumblespeed]

Hmm, that reminds me, must get one of my Panda collection working sometime.

Hope you get...somewhere....sometime. Good luck.

[andyberg]

Aannndd it's arrived🙄 final leg about to begin. A 1 hour car journey will have taken 4 hours by the UK's brilliant public transport system.

[andyberg]

Collected. Now to get home.

[Aston Martin]

So, that looks to be a scrap yard in the background.

[andyberg]

2 hours ago, Aston Martin said:

So, that looks to be a scrap yard in the background.

Dodgy Welsh industrial estate 🤣 car recovery place, disability vehicle services and the usual UPVC window companies.

[andyberg]

Home. First impressions? Not a bad little car, auto box is good, can do motorways fine. Comfy. Bonus points for discovering it has a/c, minus points coz it needs a regas M9 🙄 nice mpg's on the way back too. So far 9/10. Last service in book was 2013 at 56,000 miles! It's done 2000 miles in 9 years! Had to go to post office to change tax class from disabled to petrol car, buggers wanted at least 6 months tax up front 😡

[Aston Martin]

Why does it have a base model rear bumper?

Because of the towbar?

[andyberg]

Just now, Aston Martin said:

Why does it have a base model rear bumper?

Because of the towbar?

I'm thinking perhaps the original bumper 'touched' something hence the black bumper and towbar?

[Cookiesouwest]

Hope Mrs Berg likes it.

Looking forward to driving it

 

[andyberg]

26 minutes ago, Cookiesouwest said:

Hope Mrs Berg likes it.

Looking forward to driving it

 

She says she loves the Micra, but I think this will boost her confidence. She drove it briefly when we went to look at it and she said it was very smooth!