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But before all that my now married son & I are off to the car auctions at Measham in about an hour to buy the student a replacement car. She crawled home from Portsmouth with a knackered gearbox on Monday & there's no chance she will get back there in that car with the noise it's now making. And it's a W reg, so not worth repairing.
So, as she's 21 in a few weeks we've all decided to chip in to get her a replacement car as an early surprise birthday present. It won't be a limousine, but it will get her from A to B until she graduates next year & it will have to do.
Women, especially women students, can't diagnose car problems. Gearbox gone my a*se!!! We never went to the car auctions in the end. When my son arrived to pick me up, I asked him to drive the car first to verify what the problem was. I am not insured on my daughter's car; taxi driver, so excluded. Five minutes later he came back & said it wasn't the gearbox, but wrecked brake pads & discs.
£93.00 later, plus a new tyre from Dad & she went back to Portsmouth at 2.00pm Saturday afternoon in her old, but still going well student car, after her brother spent four hours valeting it.
Saved us all a combined £800-£1,000, thank God.
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It caused gridlock on the roads when the boat arrived
and then drive home from Manchester Airport
made me feel slightly better
