- It’s just not cricket
- Best laid plans
- Apropos of nothing
- Couldn’t put it down
- Forward planning
- The back of the bus…
- Lee Evans
- Pronounce this
- Holiday
- Bygone days
17
Sep
New wheels
Wednesday, 17th September, 2008
I have new wheels. That is to say, I have a new car, but indeed that also means I have new wheels. I had steel wheels on my last car, I now have alloys again.
I liked my last car. It was a Citroen C2 1.4 Diesel, and the fuel economy on it was simply superb. I could easily get 600 miles out of a full 40-litre tank. It was a quick wee car too; pulling away from junctions etc was very good, and I’d say that the initial pull-away speed of that car is easily quicker than anything else I’ve owned.
But, in November, the car will be three years old. It would also have done 60,000 miles. So I was faced with finding the money to:
- a) put it through an MOT
- b) put it through it’s 60,000 mile service
In addition, I needed tyres, I desperately needed brakes (including discs as I’d let the pads get so bad that the discs had become scored), and I had a leak somewhere in the coolant system. I estimated that getting all of this done in November would mean that I would have to find close to £700 from somewhere, which I don’t really have the means to do.
So, instead, I bought a new Mazda 2.
