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  skyhuck said:
TBH, car not starting these days is a pretty poor excuse, especially this time of year.

 

It is the employees responsibility to get to work on time, car won't start or missed the bus is not really on.

 

Car not starting/broke down a poor excuse!

 

Wake up Huck. My old van(05 plate)was serviced regularly what ever the cost. It let me down four weeks on the trot, after going into two different garages at great expense. Mrs Eggs car(60 plate) as just had a new gear box fitted because it was fecked.

 

Some things you just can't plan for!

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  eggsarascal said:
Car not starting/broke down a poor excuse!

 

Wake up Huck. My old van(05 plate)was serviced regularly what ever the cost. It let me down four weeks on the trot, after going into two different garages at great expense. Mrs Eggs car(60 plate) as just had a new gear box fitted because it was fecked.

 

Some things you just can't plan for!

 

Glad you don't work for me :001_rolleyes:

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Strangely enough having, and still intending, to run cars to 200-250,000 miles or 12/13 years old.

Over 37 years.

And for many of those years only running one car.

And now back to only one car after a few years running 2.

And mostly servicing/mechanicing myself.

At 55, I cannot recall a car breaking down, beyond my "on the spot" repair.

Nor indeed "failing to start".

Absolutly Seriously.

Any driver should be able to spot a tiring battery/keep a trickle charger.

The few repairs beyond by capabilities were booked in to a garage.

And I cycled or had arranged to borrow or hire a car.

Thinking that over, I scratch my head.

And I dont reckon myself to be "lucky"

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  difflock said:
Strangely enough having, and still intending, to run cars to 200-250,000 miles or 12/13 years old.

Over 37 years.

And for many of those years only running one car.

And now back to only one car after a few years running 2.

And mostly servicing/mechanicing myself.

At 55, I cannot recall a car breaking down, beyond my "on the spot" repair.

Nor indeed "failing to start".

Absolutly Seriously.

Any driver should be able to spot a tiring battery/keep a trickle charger.

The few repairs beyond by capabilities were booked in to a garage.

And I cycled or had arranged to borrow or hire a car.

Thinking that over, I scratch my head.

And I dont reckon myself to be "

 

Your either the luckiest bloke around or full of.......

 

I hired a van when my old one broke down.....my old van still broke down though. Cycling 250/300 miles a day takes some doing.

 

Ever changed a gear box at the side of the road?

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