Two new tyres

New breakpads

Wipers

Service

Broken car seat due to debris (never let kids eat/colour in in the back of any car)

Glad I've already bought the xmas pressies. 

Not looking forward to the bill......

42 minutes ago, Not in Crawley said:

Two new tyres

New breakpads

Wipers

Service

Broken car seat due to debris (never let kids eat/colour in in the back of any car)

Glad I've already bought the xmas pressies. 

Not looking forward to the bill......

A service is part of the MOT? 
 

I once had a car with a rusty hole over the rear wheel arch. The guy at the garage told me to cover it with duct tape so he couldn’t see it. 
 

MOT passed.

Don’t let them charge you for wipers for gods sake 

That doesn't sound like a bad MOT at all.

Forget the cost of the service as that's nothing to do with your MOT.

 

9 minutes ago, DazBob said:

That doesn't sound like a bad MOT at all.

Forget the cost of the service as that's nothing to do with your MOT.

 

If you’re an Alfa driver this is fucking brilliant 😁

1 hour ago, Rudy said:

Don’t let them charge you for wipers for gods sake 

Tried, went to two halfords this weekend, no had mine in stock and ran out of time looking so.....

Yes, I added the service in but I reckon its not going to be cheap. 

Aye, don't Alpha's have to be rebuilt every service?

31 minutes ago, Rudy said:

If you’re an Alfa driver this is fucking brilliant 😁

Haha

22 minutes ago, Not in Crawley said:

Tried, went to two halfords this weekend, no had mine in stock and ran out of time looking so.....

Yes, I added the service in but I reckon its not going to be cheap. 

Aye, don't Alpha's have to be rebuilt every service?

Two new tyres £150 part worn £60

Brake pads £50 each 

New car seat? eBay or scrap yard. Fit it yourself piece of piss

They'll fit Bosch wipers £30

Labour on top of all that, i dunno 

Going off your shoe and music taste I’m assuming you’re not driving a Merc 😂 so these are the lower end prices 

You strike me as a Citroen man, or something French as least 

Wipers from eBay, and a rough idea of servicing prices via https://www.servicingstop.co.uk/booking_service.html

Tyres from blackcircles, tyresonthedrive etc

There is a theory that tyres and brake pads should never need changing at the same time, but there’s a lot of contributing factors to that 

11 minutes ago, Rudy said:

Two new tyres £150 part worn £60

Brake pads £50 each 

New car seat? eBay or scrap yard. Fit it yourself piece of piss

They'll fit Bosch wipers £30

Labour on top of all that, i dunno 

Going off your shoe and music taste I’m assuming you’re not driving a Merc 😂 so these are the lower end prices 

You strike me as a Citroen man, or something French as least 

when folk say this, i switch off

fuck that

leave it to folk who know what they're doing

3 minutes ago, ZicoKelly said:

when folk say this, i switch off

fuck that

leave it to folk who know what they're doing

Quite. Piece of piss once you've learned, and bought any special tools required.

Apply that to lots of situations and...

20 minutes ago, Rudy said:

Two new tyres £150 part worn £60

Brake pads £50 each 

New car seat? eBay or scrap yard. Fit it yourself piece of piss

They'll fit Bosch wipers £30

Labour on top of all that, i dunno 

Going off your shoe and music taste I’m assuming you’re not driving a Merc 😂 so these are the lower end prices 

You strike me as a Citroen man, or something French as least 

Yup, citroen grand picasso for the brood. Like driving a living room.

5 minutes ago, ZicoKelly said:

when folk say this, i switch off

fuck that

leave it to folk who know what they're doing

Fair point. My owd fella taught me the basics when I was young and I’ve taught myself ever since and it’s paid off for me but if you don’t know and don’t have the tools best off leaving it 

Still can cut my own grass though 😁

Just now, Not in Crawley said:

Yup, citroen grand picasso for the brood. Like driving a living room.

Haha yes! 

1 minute ago, Rudy said:

Fair point. My owd fella taught me the basics when I was young and I’ve taught myself ever since and it’s paid off for me but if you don’t know and don’t have the tools best off leaving it 

Still can cut my own grass though 😁

Sure I've read you saying you'd acquired one of them lawnmowers like what bolty likes to pootle around on 😉

2 minutes ago, boogs said:

Sure I've read you saying you'd acquired one of them lawnmowers like what bolty likes to pootle around on 😉

Ah, read that as can't for some reason.

As you were, I'll get back in my box. 

5 minutes ago, boogs said:

Sure I've read you saying you'd acquired one of them lawnmowers like what bolty likes to pootle around on 😉

What like forest gump 😂 

Tyres,Brake Pads,Wipers - all consumables, if the vehicle is 5 years old or over, then that's a fairly decent Mot result.

2 minutes ago, Rudy said:

What like forest gump 😂 

Haha. No it was supposed to be a dig you having a scooter. Poor attempt at humour. As I said, back in my box I go. 

Mine passed last week. Eleven years old nothing needed.

A couple of years back it needed wipers. The garage had already fitted them when I went to collect but only charged me for the parts  (reasonable) nothing for fitting.

Got my mums sorted for her a few weeks back. 12 year old, sailed through. Bloody good at making stuff them Germans. 

29 minutes ago, Tonge moor green jacket said:

Quite. Piece of piss once you've learned, and bought any special tools required.

Apply that to lots of situations and...

Oh, how they laughed

19 minutes ago, Burndens Bogs said:

Tyres,Brake Pads,Wipers - all consumables, if the vehicle is 5 years old or over, then that's a fairly decent Mot result.

Fair enough. Just hate spending money on the car. Just boring.

 

Oh and they've not charged me for fixing the seat, just gave me a telling off.

Edited November 23, 20205 yr by Not in Crawley

14 minutes ago, boogs said:

Haha. No it was supposed to be a dig you having a scooter. Poor attempt at humour. As I said, back in my box I go. 

Haha twat, thing of beauty that, no computers all mechanical , no plastic bodywork