lady zed
12th February 2007, 17:08
What a day I've had. Hubby set off for Edinburgh this morning in his new (second hand) untested Renault Megane Scenic. I head to the garage to put the 75 in for a service and mot. Leave the little person with my parents. Get a taxi back from the garage to pick up said little person, don't have any cash so ask the driver to stop at the bank. The bank says no. Thank goodness for parents.
Get to my parents house and get a phone call from hubby, 40 miles from home on the M8, the megane has decided to drop it's engine oil and the engine is seized solid. He asks me to bring him oil in the hope of unsiezing it. Ha ha. Anyway, I duly oblige, borrowing my Dads car, a Suzuki Alto and head the 40 odd miles to get him. Get there, he puts in the oil then brings out a towrope. By this point I'm having palpatations. So I have to tow a Renault Megane in a Suzuki Altofor 2 miles down the hard shoulder of the motorway to the nearest service station, thank God it ws only 2 miles. I spent the whole time praying out loud, my face must have been a picture. Didn't tell my Dad, he's annoyed enough I used all his windscreen washer?????
Anyway, come home, hubby is complaining about his wrist, he had an op on it last week to fix a previous scar from a couple of months ago. So we go to the doctor along with the little person who's had sickness and diorreha since Thurs. Hubby has now got intensive antibiotics to take overnight and to go back tomorrow morning, if no improvement it's straight to the hospital to go on a drip and get the wound opened back up. The little person is on a diet of ice lollies and I've been given a sample jar if anymore bottom end stuff. Hubby is now away with his mates to try and move that bloomin megane, paying no attention to the fact that he could end up seriously ill if that infection gets any worse.
Anyway, you may wonder what this is doing in the technical section! The only good thing about the day was that the only phone call I had about the 75 was to pick it up, yippee!!!! I've been given a list of advisory's which is as follows:
1. Oil leak from power steering pump
2. Both front lower arm bushes are split and need replaced
3. NSF indicator lens cracked, they advise new. I bought it like that!!!
4. Front wipers slightly smearing, never noticed that myself.
5. Engine oil leak, requires clean up and recheck. Explains a lot.
6. Advise A/C anti bacterial spray. Is that them saying my car smells?
7. Service light can only be put out by Rover diagnostic equipment. Again, I bought it like that.
Well done for reading this far! The wipers I can deal with, perhaps even the indicator lens, the power steering pump should be covered by the warranty, as hopefully should the oil leak, but looks like I'll need to shell out for the bushes as that's wear and tear. And considering I can't get to my house without going over several speed bumps it's not surprising they've split.
What a day. :o
Get to my parents house and get a phone call from hubby, 40 miles from home on the M8, the megane has decided to drop it's engine oil and the engine is seized solid. He asks me to bring him oil in the hope of unsiezing it. Ha ha. Anyway, I duly oblige, borrowing my Dads car, a Suzuki Alto and head the 40 odd miles to get him. Get there, he puts in the oil then brings out a towrope. By this point I'm having palpatations. So I have to tow a Renault Megane in a Suzuki Altofor 2 miles down the hard shoulder of the motorway to the nearest service station, thank God it ws only 2 miles. I spent the whole time praying out loud, my face must have been a picture. Didn't tell my Dad, he's annoyed enough I used all his windscreen washer?????
Anyway, come home, hubby is complaining about his wrist, he had an op on it last week to fix a previous scar from a couple of months ago. So we go to the doctor along with the little person who's had sickness and diorreha since Thurs. Hubby has now got intensive antibiotics to take overnight and to go back tomorrow morning, if no improvement it's straight to the hospital to go on a drip and get the wound opened back up. The little person is on a diet of ice lollies and I've been given a sample jar if anymore bottom end stuff. Hubby is now away with his mates to try and move that bloomin megane, paying no attention to the fact that he could end up seriously ill if that infection gets any worse.
Anyway, you may wonder what this is doing in the technical section! The only good thing about the day was that the only phone call I had about the 75 was to pick it up, yippee!!!! I've been given a list of advisory's which is as follows:
1. Oil leak from power steering pump
2. Both front lower arm bushes are split and need replaced
3. NSF indicator lens cracked, they advise new. I bought it like that!!!
4. Front wipers slightly smearing, never noticed that myself.
5. Engine oil leak, requires clean up and recheck. Explains a lot.
6. Advise A/C anti bacterial spray. Is that them saying my car smells?
7. Service light can only be put out by Rover diagnostic equipment. Again, I bought it like that.
Well done for reading this far! The wipers I can deal with, perhaps even the indicator lens, the power steering pump should be covered by the warranty, as hopefully should the oil leak, but looks like I'll need to shell out for the bushes as that's wear and tear. And considering I can't get to my house without going over several speed bumps it's not surprising they've split.
What a day. :o