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It just tots up
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? -- Rob Pearson 156 1.9jtd sportwagon (now) 164 V6 Lusso (gone) 147 2.0TS lusso (Hers) |
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In alt.autos.alfa-romeo,
R C Nesbit > wrote: > > 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? Yup, expensive little things. Some people aparently are able to jam the cheap version in the socket. That's some extra fun for the next bulb change. Especially when they also managed to break off the grip that makes it a little less hard to get get the socket out of the holder. -- Stef (remove caps, dashes and .invalid from e-mail address to reply by mail) Unfair animal names: -- tsetse fly -- bullhead -- booby -- duck-billed platypus -- sapsucker -- Clarence -- Gary Larson |
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