One of those bad days!!!!

[Lincs Yellowbelly]

On my way today i noticed that my car started to make a funny squeeling noise when i braked. A little while later i was driving along in 5th gear and lifted my foot off the acelerator and it dropped out of gear. From then on it wouldn't stay in 5th. Took it to the garage near my work and the upshot is i need a new gearbox and will cost in the region of £750!!!!!!!!

Had better days

[wildlifesnapper]

ouch!!!

[agrumpycow]

Originally Posted by Lincs Yellowbelly

On my way today i noticed that my car started to make a funny squeeling noise when i braked. A little while later i was driving along in 5th gear and lifted my foot off the acelerator and it dropped out of gear. From then on it wouldn't stay in 5th. Took it to the garage near my work and the upshot is i need a new gearbox and will cost in the region of £750!!!!!!!!

Had better days

I'm putting this in my subscriptions so I can re-read it when I curse at 6.30am each morning the reason I sold my car to buy a bike to cycle to work on! It's cheaper but often a lot wetter and colder!

[John]

Originally Posted by Lincs Yellowbelly

On my way today i noticed that my car started to make a funny squeeling noise when i braked. A little while later i was driving along in 5th gear and lifted my foot off the acelerator and it dropped out of gear. From then on it wouldn't stay in 5th. Took it to the garage near my work and the upshot is i need a new gearbox and will cost in the region of £750!!!!!!!!

Had better days

We appear to have had similar days. I started to get a screeching noise on my brakes and took it to two garages this morning for quotes. Both garages obviously picked out that my brakes were close to metal but the real gut wrenchers were that both track rods are out (one is only just over 6 months old). This has caused the two front tyres to become illegal. They have only done about 15K plus one of my back tyres is illegal and the other close to it (I did know about them and was changing them this week). Also both garages remarked on my mileage and asked if I had changed my cam belt, which of course I haven't. This should have been done on a 100K and now I am on 120K so that needs changing rapido so I am left with a bill close to £800 also.

Nice to know someone else has had a similar day.

John

[Oscar2006]

Some of us don't spend that much buying another car!
At the end of the day you either need the car or you don't. If you do, then you'll find the money and get it sorted.
It's only £60 - 70 a month out of your life savings/pension fund!

Hope you both get sorted soon.

[Lincs Yellowbelly]

Oh i need the car as work is over 15miles away, and fixing the gearbox will be alot cheaper than buying another car luckily my Dad is good at lending me money and will no doubt be added on to the money i already owe him for the original loan for the car just as i thought i'd nearly paid it off!!

John,

It's kind of nice to know i'm not the only one having a bad day hope you get yours sorted soon

[Kayleigh]

I have a 26 year old Land Rover series 111 its just sailed through another MOT I love my Landy
They don't make em like they used to.

[Kev Lewis]

I was having a good day photographing stonechats in a gorse bush until a RAF Search and Rescue helicopter decided to practise hovering 20' over my head. The camo gear and netting must of been really good because it was hovering for the best part of 10 minutes over me before the winchman saw me and they moved off ! At least my car is ok but my hair is a mess

[almostnormal]

i was having a bad day today, stuck in my office doing boring paperwork, and cursing my farmer for cancelling a site visit, but i feel better now i've read this post.....my car's working fine, i never get wet and cold on the way to work and my hair still looks great.

but you know, karma's a funny thing, so look on the upside, for every rotten thing that happens something brilliant has to happen! as this works both ways and i've been having a good run, i fully expect something horrendous (a bad hair day, an awkward question, gulp, an unexpected expense) to be waiting just around the corner. swat sheild at the ready.......

[Ann2]

I've not had much luck with vehicles either. I've needed new engines in most of the ones I've owned (including my old series III Land Rover, although it was the rotten chassis that finally made me part with it). Luckily I don't have to use my own vehicle for work as my company very kindly provide one, but even one of the company vans was written off by an off duty police sargeant who neglected to notice that I had stopped in front of him.

None of this beats Kev's bad hair day though I'm sure!

Ann

[Lincs Yellowbelly]

Originally Posted by almostnormal

i was having a bad day today, stuck in my office doing boring paperwork, and cursing my farmer for cancelling a site visit, but i feel better now i've read this post.....my car's working fine, i never get wet and cold on the way to work and my hair still looks great.

but you know, karma's a funny thing, so look on the upside, for every rotten thing that happens something brilliant has to happen! as this works both ways and i've been having a good run, i fully expect something horrendous (a bad hair day, an awkward question, gulp, an unexpected expense) to be waiting just around the corner. swat sheild at the ready.......

Glad i made you feel better

[eeyore]

Originally Posted by Kev Lewis

I was having a good day photographing stonechats in a gorse bush until a RAF Search and Rescue helicopter decided to practise hovering 20' over my head. The camo gear and netting must of been really good because it was hovering for the best part of 10 minutes over me before the winchman saw me and they moved off ! At least my car is ok but my hair is a mess

i trust you have some excellent photos of the heli to sell to the aviation press

remember every silver lining has a cloud