New car: Baldrick
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janestarzUgh, the past few days have been far too busy and I've been doing stuff.
The garage called me at work yesterday, telling me exactly what they told me on Friday: more research was needed to see why the cylinder was malfunctioning, it wasn't the spark plugs, etc.
We've been pouring money into Aurum for a while now, each time hoping it would run smoothly and we could look forward to a lot of kilometers without problems. At the last APK (mandatory yearly check-up) we had 1100 euro in repairs and not six months later the engine is giving us trouble.
Step-brother Raphael, who is a car mechanic, said we could have it fixed, hope it's not too expensive and sell it on. Meanwhile, he had a Nissan Micra that is perfectly kept and only had 80thou or so on the odometer.
So I picked up our new (light grey, ugh) car this morning and we're hoping to sell the Clio through the dealership.
We're still trying to pick out a name, I'm thinking about a name starting with "B" since Aurum was my first privately-owned car.
The Micra has a little bit of an attitude, though nothing like what Aurum had. It's a workhorse with a load "vroaaaaaaaaaar" in his engine, and it can do 120 kph without a twitch.We're currently stuck on Bob, Bacchus, Bruce or ...
(Bob for Blackadder, Bruce for Finding Nemo)
We're calling him Baldrick!
The garage called me at work yesterday, telling me exactly what they told me on Friday: more research was needed to see why the cylinder was malfunctioning, it wasn't the spark plugs, etc.
We've been pouring money into Aurum for a while now, each time hoping it would run smoothly and we could look forward to a lot of kilometers without problems. At the last APK (mandatory yearly check-up) we had 1100 euro in repairs and not six months later the engine is giving us trouble.
Step-brother Raphael, who is a car mechanic, said we could have it fixed, hope it's not too expensive and sell it on. Meanwhile, he had a Nissan Micra that is perfectly kept and only had 80thou or so on the odometer.
So I picked up our new (light grey, ugh) car this morning and we're hoping to sell the Clio through the dealership.
We're still trying to pick out a name, I'm thinking about a name starting with "B" since Aurum was my first privately-owned car.
The Micra has a little bit of an attitude, though nothing like what Aurum had. It's a workhorse with a load "vroaaaaaaaaaar" in his engine, and it can do 120 kph without a twitch.
(Bob for Blackadder, Bruce for Finding Nemo)
We're calling him Baldrick!
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Date: 2016-07-06 03:51 pm (UTC)