The Buckingham Blog

Cars Cars Cars - nothing but a total pain in the bum.  I'm not sure I've posted on here about our car drama, but on 16th April someone reversed into the drivers door of our car.  We got a hire car the very same day which is fab (a VW Jetta)  So now, 2 months to the day further on and we're still driving the hire car, and the garage have no idea if (when??) they will get a part for it.  As it's an MG the parts are hard to come by. 

So this weekend our hire car rear tyre pops, not just a wee puncture, oh no, a big huge hole in it.  So today I have to tae it down to Kwik Fit and get the wheel assessed to see if we are liable to pay for a new tyre or not.  We only just put 3 tyres on the other car before it was bumped so really don't want to be shelling out for one now.

I'm starting to think we'll not see our MG again, it's been so long, and no sign of anything yet.  If they right it off, we'll get hardly anything back for it, certainly not enough to buy another 5 door hatchback with a 1.8 engine (ie an equivalent car) which is so annoying.  So coz some stupid prat decided not to look in his rear view mirror, we're going to have to end up out of pocket. 

I understand you only get market value for your car, but I think the system is totally crap, I mean what use is a poxy little P plate Micra when you have 2 kids.  Hardly like for like now is it.

Rant over.  Off to drag 2 kids to Kwikk Fit to be entertained for the afternoon.

Julie.xx