.....they would be just like mine. I booked the Beemer in to have the exhaust fixed. The morning I took it in,it had no clutch, so I asked Gerry at the garage to have a look at that too. Because the exhaust was damaged by a backfire, it was not covered by warranty. Gerry the mechanic persuaded the supplier that as a good customer, that they ought to give him a new one anyway.
Later in the day, I recalled the little pool of oily fluid under the car that we had found the other day. Clutch fluid! So I rang and told the garage. Turns out a seal had gone and the master cylinder was iffy. He didnt fix the master cylinder (he is under instruction to think "is it beyond economical repair?"), so he suggested occasionally topping it up with brake fluid, a far cheaper option.
Finally, he replaced a clip on the fuel tank. It seems that someone has been trying to drain petrol. This is happening all over town since the local petrol station shut (nearest now at least 6 miles away), apparently. If I catch some scally under my car, I'll let the handbrake off!
Anyway, so having solved my vehicular problems, the bill came to zero, de nada, zilch, nichts, nothing. What a nice man.
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Sounds like a pretty amazing establishment to me...but if Carlsberg ran it though, could they organise a top-up in a garage?
We always used to have locking petrol caps on our cars when we lived in Coventry. I think we may have to get them again as the scum are syphoning gas from kid's cars while they are in college...the kids are in college not the cars...
Jane
Zero! Wow, that's just like the old days when you could trust people! Good work LH.
Does this bloke mend boats too?
I hope you slipped him some folding stuff!
I bet he did slip him something, Lois... possibly an empty Vodka bottle inside a carrier bag, that's his usual MO.
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