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Post by stirlingmg on Mar 24, 2020 10:21:24 GMT
No thought not😝 Been a bit hectic since I was last on here. I started looking for a wheelchair accessible car so we could get my dad out instead of his daily routine of being craned out of bed & plonked in a chair in the morning, then craned back into bed at night. Mother Stirling had been looking at fairly new Berlingos but I told her to hold off buying anything expensive for 2 main reasons, firstly she might spend 13k on one & not get on with it, in which case she would lose a lot of money on it, secondly with the way my dad was at the time, how long was he going to last? I suggested buying the newest we could find for under £4000 as they seem to stabilise price wise at around £2500 regardless of age. There’s not a great deal of choice out there but this was further limited by my mother’s criteria, definitely petrol & preferably automatic. This more or less limited us to the Renault Kangoo or the Fiat Doblo. I found one of each, a 26000 mile 2007 Kangoo at £2989 & a 2009 Doblo at £3500.......the Kangoo somehow stood out from the rest on eBay & the Doblo was really quite nicely accessorised etc & did look the part. I drove to Sheffield & viewed the Renault which was nipping clean & drove well, I planned to view the Fiat on the way back but time got the better of me. In the meantime the Fiat sold so I got the train back to Sheffield & bought the Renault, which has turned out to be a real little lifeline for them both.
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Post by stirlingmg on Mar 24, 2020 10:31:55 GMT
Then my daily driver Volvo V70 expired when it spat it’s alternator belt off which in turn got tangled in the timing belt with catastrophic consequences. I had however just bought another Rover 75, a tidy 2003 1.8 turbo in attractive gold with beige interior (my mate said if you drop a wurthers original in there you may never find it) It had the usual water issues, a rotten front wing & a fault on the rear lights. The plan was to fix it up & move it on, but with the demise of the Volvo I had to press it into front line service. I popped the head off to discover the liners had been chattering & were sunken very slightly, so out came the engine & a set of liner shims fitted, along with a fresh set of rings, a head skim & a new gasket. It now runs very nicely & went straight through an mot. That very night I returned home to find water cascading down the stairs & pouring out of the living room ceiling & a very frightened cat cowering in the corner. The cistern had cracked in the bathroom & filled the house with water, oh what joy. So as a result I’m staying with my parents where I am now incarcerated due to the Bat Flu outbreak
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