Grr @ logistics. Again.

[Pete-M]

Was meant to be borrowing a mates truck to collect the 604 from the arse end of nowhere today (Sunday), and he's let me down. Mainly because the bloke who's garage the 604 is in has said "Oh, I'm out between 11am and 3pm" which either means me borrowing the truck at 4am, driving 250 miles to get there for around 10am, loading the thing up, driving the 250 miles back, dropping the Pug off at the Welders (who'll have to come out and open his garage to let it in), then dropping the truck off at about 9pm, or alternatively borrowing the truck at around 10am, picking the 604 up at 3-4pm, getting the welder to open up at 10pm and dropping the truck off at around midnight.

 

Bloke with truck isn't happy about having to open his garage either early in the morning or late at night, so that's that knackered for this weekend.

 

No doubt this will mean getting a snotty phone call from the geezer who owns the 604, and who appears to think I'm a time waster as I've not been able to sort recovery for a broken Peugeot for less than £200.

 

I'll try Shiply one more time, and if I don't get any sense from them, and if it snows next weekend it's all off.

[warren t claim]

Pre book it for an MOT in Liverpool. Drive home. Problem solved.

[Pete-M]

Pre book it for an MOT in Liverpool. Drive home. Problem solved.

 

I wouldn't like to risk it over the distance concerned, especially as I know the car needs work. If something went wrong, I'd be right up the creek without a canoe, imagine if your car was hit by someone who'd just brought a car half way up the country with no MOT or Tax and shabby cover sills. I know I wouldn't be forgiving if someone hit the Jag in that situation, never mind if anything worse happened.

[warren t claim]

Pre book it for an MOT in Liverpool. Drive home. Problem solved.

 

I wouldn't like to risk it over the distance concerned, especially as I know the car needs work. If something went wrong, I'd be right up the creek without a canoe, imagine if your car was hit by someone who'd just brought a car half way up the country with no MOT or Tax and shabby cover sills. I know I wouldn't be forgiving if someone hit the Jag in that situation, never mind if anything worse happened.

 

You'd be fine. Where's your sense of adventure? I'll bet you've driven worse back in the old days1

[Mr_Bo11ox]

^^^I wouldnt fancy that either, sounds like a recipe for disaster.

 

Seems like you have a lot of people to keep happy in one day there Pete - your truck man, the seller, the painter are all giving you deadlines, sounds like a lot of hassle and doomed to failure if i'm honest.

 

You should be able to get it sorted for £1-£1.15 per mile one way on shiply fairly easily with a bit of patience. Is the seller leaning on you to get it shifted sharpish? If you could give him a £100 deposit and a promise to get it shifted at some point in the next fortnight you would save yourself a lot of hassle I reckon, if that was possible.

[Guest]

Pete, you have made me break my AS abstinence. Fuck it, it's for a worthy cause. You have faecesbook posts on the matter.

 

Right kids, I'm off again. Enjoy the circus, I'll be back when it's calmed down, or when I've calmed down. Whichever comes first \ is which.