Squirt: Can we go to Blackpool in the Rangey Dad, Dad, Dad, can we huh, huh?
Me: No son. 180 quid on fuel vs 60 quid in the Vectra? It's a no brainer son.
So there we are near sunny Blackpool (kin freezing actually) after an uneventful trip. She wants to go to Asda. Swinging round a roundabout front end hits a pothole... TWANG!! Wassatt?? While she's shopping I take a look at front strut. Looks like coil spring has displaced sideways. No worries, me thinks, will whip wheel off at hotel and lever it back straight! But on wheel removal, saw that coil had snapped good and proper. Eeek! 250 miles from home, no tools, bank holiday weekend and a family meal to get to in 3 hrs. So found out local National garage was open - they checked each corner - and found a rear spring freshly snapped too! Arse. Which in turn had caused tyre feathering at the back end. And one had a nail, the other a cracked wall. Oookay. Oh and broken coils had smashed bearings in. So 4 coil springs, 2 tyres, 2 links, 2 bearings, 4 wheel alignment / tracking. Picked it up the following day (after £75 quid on taxis) for the bargain bucket sum of £824!!
Squid: Told you to go in the Rangey dad! Dad, why you that funny colour?
Me: No son. 180 quid on fuel vs 60 quid in the Vectra? It's a no brainer son.
So there we are near sunny Blackpool (kin freezing actually) after an uneventful trip. She wants to go to Asda. Swinging round a roundabout front end hits a pothole... TWANG!! Wassatt?? While she's shopping I take a look at front strut. Looks like coil spring has displaced sideways. No worries, me thinks, will whip wheel off at hotel and lever it back straight! But on wheel removal, saw that coil had snapped good and proper. Eeek! 250 miles from home, no tools, bank holiday weekend and a family meal to get to in 3 hrs. So found out local National garage was open - they checked each corner - and found a rear spring freshly snapped too! Arse. Which in turn had caused tyre feathering at the back end. And one had a nail, the other a cracked wall. Oookay. Oh and broken coils had smashed bearings in. So 4 coil springs, 2 tyres, 2 links, 2 bearings, 4 wheel alignment / tracking. Picked it up the following day (after £75 quid on taxis) for the bargain bucket sum of £824!!
Squid: Told you to go in the Rangey dad! Dad, why you that funny colour?