A couple of weeks ago I posted about buying tyres online and how it didn’t go quite to plan. BestBuyTyres contacted me on the Monday and were very honest and appologetic about the mistake with the opening hours on their website. The installation was re-arranged for last Saturday and now I have the tyres that I wanted fitted at the price that suited me.
Last Thursday while driving home from work, a warning light came on. It was the emissions warning light. So Friday, I arranged for the car to go into the dealer yesterday when I went back to work. The check strap on the driver’s door was very noisy so I asked them to replace it while they had the car.
Wednesday this week, when I went to go out in the evening, the headlight switch failed. It didn’t turn smoothly, and the lights wouldn’t come on. If I hit the switch, I could get dashboard lights, but no exterior lights. On Thursday morning it was the same story, so I had to wait until it was light enough to drive safely before I could go to work. I ran the dealer yesterday and got the switch added to the work needed.
It turned out that it was a temperature sensor that had failed causing the warning light. Unfortunately, they were unable to get it yesterday, so I didn’t get the car back until today. At least it’s all working again.
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It’s always the way with cars. Fix one thing, usually costly, then lots of other things go wrong as well. My son had to get a new transmission, $4,000. Then he had to get the engine taken out for another problem, so he had to spend another $3000. Now he has to keep the car for quite a while to get his investment paid for but it is already ten years old. You keep throwing good money after bad.
Hope it is the end of your troubles.
Yes, it’s been an expensive couple of months with one car or the other. Other than the little things which have been expensive, my car seems to be running fine, touch wood, so it should be good for a few years yet.
I still need to get some rear tyres for Jo’s car, then that should be it for cars until service/MOT time next year.
Regards,
Ian