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littleheavenThe shit hits the fan.
I got a call on Saturday afternoon - it was my hubby, stranded at his mate's house, his car having packed in on the way home from golf. This is the very nice, fairly new Ford Probe, that he bought the year before last. Turns out there was no oil in the car! Normally I would have been mad at him for not checking it, but seriously, it's just been serviced like, 12 weeks ago, it normally goes 9 months without needing a top-up, the oil gauge was reading fine and no warning lights were on. Well - the one that said "windscreen washer fluid low" was on (gee, thanks, like that's important), but no warnings about oil. And no leaks on our driveway either. So where did it all go? Buggered if I know.
So we got poor Morpheus (that's its name) towed to our mechanic the next morning - he kindly came down to let us in and lock the car in his workshop. Now we just have to wait to see if the engine is completely stuffed, or if the terrible clanging noise is just a collapsed lifter. Also, we have to find out where the oil is getting out. It's not burning off - we'd see the cloud of smoke coming from the exhaust if he was burning that much.
So, all in all, not a great weekend, with the prospect of several thousand dollars worth of repairs hanging over our head. What makes it even more annoying is that we didn't really want to purchase that particular car. We entered into a sale and purchase agreement with the dealership, part of this was that we traded our existing car. They took that off us straight away. The other condition was that we were happy with the mechanical check. We weren't, tried to terminate the deal, only to find they had sold our old car before the mechanical check was even done. As a result of the complaints we laid, they gave us a one-year warranty, plus a free service. The free service turned up another $2000 worth of required repairs, which they had to do for free. We said at the time we were worried there would be continual problems with the vehicle, due to the number of things it had wrong with it when we bought it. I guess we were right, and we'll be back down the dealership spitting tacks if the repairs cost us more than a few hundred dollars.
Car salesmen. The lowest form of life. Period.
I got a call on Saturday afternoon - it was my hubby, stranded at his mate's house, his car having packed in on the way home from golf. This is the very nice, fairly new Ford Probe, that he bought the year before last. Turns out there was no oil in the car! Normally I would have been mad at him for not checking it, but seriously, it's just been serviced like, 12 weeks ago, it normally goes 9 months without needing a top-up, the oil gauge was reading fine and no warning lights were on. Well - the one that said "windscreen washer fluid low" was on (gee, thanks, like that's important), but no warnings about oil. And no leaks on our driveway either. So where did it all go? Buggered if I know.
So we got poor Morpheus (that's its name) towed to our mechanic the next morning - he kindly came down to let us in and lock the car in his workshop. Now we just have to wait to see if the engine is completely stuffed, or if the terrible clanging noise is just a collapsed lifter. Also, we have to find out where the oil is getting out. It's not burning off - we'd see the cloud of smoke coming from the exhaust if he was burning that much.
So, all in all, not a great weekend, with the prospect of several thousand dollars worth of repairs hanging over our head. What makes it even more annoying is that we didn't really want to purchase that particular car. We entered into a sale and purchase agreement with the dealership, part of this was that we traded our existing car. They took that off us straight away. The other condition was that we were happy with the mechanical check. We weren't, tried to terminate the deal, only to find they had sold our old car before the mechanical check was even done. As a result of the complaints we laid, they gave us a one-year warranty, plus a free service. The free service turned up another $2000 worth of required repairs, which they had to do for free. We said at the time we were worried there would be continual problems with the vehicle, due to the number of things it had wrong with it when we bought it. I guess we were right, and we'll be back down the dealership spitting tacks if the repairs cost us more than a few hundred dollars.
Car salesmen. The lowest form of life. Period.
