Tell us something really trivial about your life (Vol 28)
Discussion
DickyC said:
Funeral in Newcastle. Didn't want to go in the Skoda of Shame and don't trust the Jag. Mrs C's eighteen year old SLK to the rescue. It didn't even blink. 620 miles round trip at nigh on 37 mpg. That beats the Sarf of France a few years ago when it returned 34 mpg. What a car. You'd think that spending most of its life going up and down to the shops with an occasional Italian tune-up by your correspondent it might object to six hundred miles in two days. Nope, it didn't miss a beat.
How many miles has the SLK done DC ?Roughly the same age as Fabio the Fiat.
18yo also makes it a Merc before they went a bit poor quality in the 2000s.
Iva Barchetta said:
leglessAlex said:
Why not come along to DD's and show your face Iva? I don't know if I can make it but if I do it'll only be for an hour or so.
Actually I cannot due to leaving for a day at Wales Rally GB on Friday.There's a few other reasons too.......
Iva Barchetta said:
How many miles has the SLK done DC ?
Roughly the same age as Fabio the Fiat.
18yo also makes it a Merc before they went a bit poor quality in the 2000s.
81,000, Iva. The SLK was one of the first of the Mercs with poor build-quality, I think. You see some really ropey ones. Mrs C's car benefits from an easy life and me tending to its little problems before they become big problems. The interior is a bit shabby because, bless 'em, Mercedes chose to have a painted interior. Putting that straight is a right palaver. I reckon they will be rare one day when most of them have dissolved.Roughly the same age as Fabio the Fiat.
18yo also makes it a Merc before they went a bit poor quality in the 2000s.
Currently on my own in the showroom with the guvnor's choice of Sky News loud enough to hear. Mob handed they are sitting round discussing topics including pollution. "Look at that!" squawked one one of them waving at a black and white picture of a row of huge chimneys belching filth into the atmosphere.
Mmmm, yes. Those would be cooling towers. That's steam you're getting upset about.
Mmmm, yes. Those would be cooling towers. That's steam you're getting upset about.
DickyC said:
81,000, Iva. The SLK was one of the first of the Mercs with poor build-quality, I think. You see some really ropey ones. Mrs C's car benefits from an easy life and me tending to its little problems before they become big problems. The interior is a bit shabby because, bless 'em, Mercedes chose to have a painted interior. Putting that straight is a right palaver. I reckon they will be rare one day when most of them have dissolved.
Friend of ours has a 98 R plate one on about 45k.Interior of that, apart from leather seats, is s
t too for a car of that mileage.
Jim AK said:
Friend of ours has a 98 R plate one on about 45k.
Interior of that, apart from leather seats, is st too for a car of that mileage.
The plastic is black and shows really badly through grey and the other pale colours but bizarrely they even painted the black interior cars so even those can be scruffy.Interior of that, apart from leather seats, is s
t too for a car of that mileage.Ask your friends if they have dropped the under wing shields and had a bit of hose out. Compost in there.
GOG440 said:
And today I went pumpkin picking with my daughter.
Living the high life
Sounds like a good day. Seriously. I've been spending a lot of time focused on work recently and I've been (occasionally politely) reminded that family is more important. I've been slowly trying to change my psyche over the last couple of weeks to get that into my head and, during the last couple of days, I think that it's finally clicked. And my goodness I feel guilty now.Living the high life
In other news, John Grisham's new book is out soon.
McAndy said:
Sounds like a good day. Seriously. I've been spending a lot of time focused on work recently and I've been (occasionally politely) reminded that family is more important. I've been slowly trying to change my psyche over the last couple of weeks to get that into my head and, during the last couple of days, I think that it's finally clicked. And my goodness I feel guilty now.
In other news, John Grisham's new line of underwear is out soon.
In other news, John Grisham's new line of underwear is out soon.
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