So, Sam’s car blew the head gasket. Bit of a pain, could cost up to £750 to get fixed. Not happy. She took my car to work, I drove hers to the garage to ask about getting it fixed. They told me how much it’d cost: I said, “fuck me that’s a lot of money! Can I get back to you this evening? Meanwhile, can I leave the car here so we can pick it up tonight? I have to go to work.” They agreed, and off I went to work.
A few phone calls later, it turned out that the head gasket is covered by the warranty. Brilliant. A ray of sunshine in my sad life with cars. So I rang Sam, told her the good news. She agreed to go to the garage when she left work, leave my car there, and pick hers up and drive it home. No problem. She dropped my car off at 5.15pm. I got off the bus at 7pm to get my car and drive it home.
Whereupon I found that someone had crashed into the side of it.
I hate everything. Everything. My car! My beautiful car!
I feel like I’m going to cry.
Shit, and I thought I was having a bad week. Bad luck mate.
Got the details of who did it, or did the bastard do a runner?
Posted by Paul Freeman on December 6th, 2004.
Doom, doom, doom, doomity doom. :(
(Head gaskets are really irritating buggers, being exxentially a really cheap thing surrounded by most of a car that’s a real pain to dismantle and stick back together)
Posted by Senji on December 7th, 2004.
I take it they didn’t leave a note on your screen?
Where was it? At the garage? Have they got CCTV?
Posted by Matt on December 7th, 2004.
I take it they didn’t leave a note on your screen?
Where was it? At the garage? Have they got CCTV?
Sorry to hear about that mate.
Posted by Matt on December 7th, 2004.
No-one left a note. The garage deny all knowledge, despite how it must have happened while they were there. The garage apparently do have CCTV, but it’s piped to head office and not viewable onsite. They’re checking it for me, but it’s not likely to help: it doesn’t cover the whole parking lot, and my car was parked mostly outside the coverage bit.
Wish I could find the little bastard who did it. Bloody £400 quid excess on my insurance policy. Fuck.
Posted by sil on December 7th, 2004.
He was probably blinded by the yellow!
This post sounds very livejournaly for you Senor Aq I must say!
Posted by fizz on December 7th, 2004.
LiveJournally: very true. On the other hand, they all feel angst about pointless shite like the good-looking girl at school ignoring them, whereas I am crushed by how some blind scrote crashed into my fucking car. There’s a difference here.
Posted by sil on December 7th, 2004.
That happened to me in the super market car park last week!!! Gutless pricks can’t even stop to put a note under you wiper. RAGE :-0
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Posted by Bob on December 30th, 2004.
my car stalls at stop or when its idle in park fuel filter?head g?anyone?
Posted by lauri on July 28th, 2005.
MY CHRYHSLER LHS HAS A MANUFACTURER ALARM AND IT WON‘T SHUT OFF. HOW DO I DISABLE IT?
Posted by ROBIN on September 16th, 2005.
my mondeo is doin my head in it keeps juddering and jerking slightly but when ive got my foot doen its ok .does any1 know what it could be
Posted by neil on August 28th, 2006.