Car parts/accessories shops
Car parts/accessories shops
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Pothole

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34,367 posts

312 months

Tuesday 19th March 2019
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I'm running a £200 1998 Civic as a winter shed (not for much longer I hope) and my indicators have stopped working. It's most likely to be the relay, which was a slight pain to access but is out now. It's a Lucas part and common to lots of 90s Rovers, MGs and other Hondas, even a couple of Range Rover varieties according to the internet. Ebay have plenty but not in the next 24 hours.

There's a branch of the well-known car parts chain with the blue and yellow livery who claim to have any part for any car...nope. So I tried "1/2 rods"...nope. The local branch of a small chain (41 stores countrywide) didn't have one either, but they will tomorrow lunchtime. Score one for the small boys. It's like a bigger version of the car spares/motor factors that used to be a feature of every high street when I was a young thruster. I'm a happy Pothole this evening.

(The name's a bit like Autoglobe)

Skyedriver

23,419 posts

312 months

Tuesday 19th March 2019
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Know the pain although here in Oban there is a "Car Parts" shop.
There used to be a few wherever I lived. You could get everything you needed, have a good chat, they knew you by your name etc.
Over in Darlington there is still DMFX who are brilliant and better than the equivalent Hfrds except not open Sundays.