The 156 was overdue an oil & filter change, and lacking any
handy tuits I book it into the local (trustworthy) garage.

£75 for an oil & filter change, or £95 for a 'basic
service' which includes oil & filter + general checking of
stuff.

Phone call mid morning - "rear brake pads almost down to
metal!"

Told them to go ahead and change them.

Phone call late morning "Cars done, but just noticed the
MOT is due next week, should we do that now as well?"

So the £95 ended up as £217 - more than twice what I
expected, but probably reasonable for the work done.

On a related note, the front n/s sidelight bulb went AWOL,
so I got one from the local car shop (They are all like
this, it'll be OK - £1.20 please)

Spent a pleasant 1/2 hour mangling fingers to extract the
bulb - new one all wrong! took it back, had to order one -
WTF is the sidelight bulb a halogen bulb £5.00 a pop?


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Rob Pearson
156 1.9jtd sportwagon (now)
164 V6 Lusso (gone)
147 2.0TS lusso (Hers)