28-04-2012, 08:35 AM
My dealer has redeemed himself. When I told him about the added costs the delay to my new car was going to be he offered to do the decent thing and give me a courtesy car till it turned up. Our old faithfull needed re taxing, insuring, MOT, new tyres, wipers all of which it hadnt needed six weeks ago when he thought my new one would arrive.
We switched on Wednesday.
So here I am in a new C3 with 50 miles on the clock. But its not right. I have never had a car that just couldnt before. Even my old 2CVs could do stuff. Do you remember the old Antiques roadshow titles with the 2CV transporting a Grandfather clock through the dales? I have rolled back that roof at garden centres and dropped a couple of 3 meter trees into where the rear seat should have been, slid the boot lid off and bunged a few bushes into the spare tyre well and driven sedately home. I need the adaptability of a real car back.
I went to pick up our carpet shampoo machine from my daughters but it wouldn't go in upright into the C3 boot, or even much at all! When I got home the first job was shampoo the boot. And why would anyone put a dirty great sponge under the boot lining? Is it to soak up the leaked milk from the supermarket shop? No wonder they have scent wafters in the heater system. How do people manage with ordinary cars? My sister has a Mini FFS.
I want my Berlingo. I went down to the dealers. My old 04 desire was parked unloved by the fence. That car had done nothing wrong. It had started to become expensive at service times. I suspected that although I had done clutch, disks, timing belt etc. recently that was not going to be the end of it and so had ordered another. My guilt was weighing on me.
Even taking the dog anywhere is a trial. Our mutt is exceedingly hairy but not quite as hairy as pretty much anywhere he has recently been. The boot of a brand new C3 belonging to someone else is not a place you would want to put him. Is there a suit I could get him? or maybe cling film to the neck and some sort of goldfish bowl for the sharp end?
Give me my new car. I need a car I can use. One that can take two full roller bins to the dump. That can take a bike or two bunged in the boot as well as the riders. and that means not just to the trail, but back again at the muddy end of the trip. A car that goes to the beach, but in style, with the kit, tents, sledges, kites, buggies, barbies.
I need my BERLINGO
I need it NOW
Dealer, fix it for me.
We switched on Wednesday.
So here I am in a new C3 with 50 miles on the clock. But its not right. I have never had a car that just couldnt before. Even my old 2CVs could do stuff. Do you remember the old Antiques roadshow titles with the 2CV transporting a Grandfather clock through the dales? I have rolled back that roof at garden centres and dropped a couple of 3 meter trees into where the rear seat should have been, slid the boot lid off and bunged a few bushes into the spare tyre well and driven sedately home. I need the adaptability of a real car back.
I went to pick up our carpet shampoo machine from my daughters but it wouldn't go in upright into the C3 boot, or even much at all! When I got home the first job was shampoo the boot. And why would anyone put a dirty great sponge under the boot lining? Is it to soak up the leaked milk from the supermarket shop? No wonder they have scent wafters in the heater system. How do people manage with ordinary cars? My sister has a Mini FFS.
I want my Berlingo. I went down to the dealers. My old 04 desire was parked unloved by the fence. That car had done nothing wrong. It had started to become expensive at service times. I suspected that although I had done clutch, disks, timing belt etc. recently that was not going to be the end of it and so had ordered another. My guilt was weighing on me.
Even taking the dog anywhere is a trial. Our mutt is exceedingly hairy but not quite as hairy as pretty much anywhere he has recently been. The boot of a brand new C3 belonging to someone else is not a place you would want to put him. Is there a suit I could get him? or maybe cling film to the neck and some sort of goldfish bowl for the sharp end?
Give me my new car. I need a car I can use. One that can take two full roller bins to the dump. That can take a bike or two bunged in the boot as well as the riders. and that means not just to the trail, but back again at the muddy end of the trip. A car that goes to the beach, but in style, with the kit, tents, sledges, kites, buggies, barbies.
I need my BERLINGO
I need it NOW
Dealer, fix it for me.
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