Well Jegger (as she's been Christened) has been doing service shuttling me about. My three year old daughter has fallen in love with Jegger and is now 'her car'. The only problem is she just sits in her child seat shouting for me to go faster and make it 'go all loud'. I seem to be bringing up another petrol head!
Jegger and I have had one small spat in which the key plipper stopped working and I tried to open the drivers door with the key. The alarm went off and I couldn't switch it off leaving me stranded at work without a spanner to take the battery off and reset it. I got a lift home with a colleague and did some digging on the forum. Came to the conclusion that, due to the drivers lock being loose, the door had unlocked but hadn't triggered the switch to tell the alarm that it had been unlocked correctly. The next day, I tried the passenger door and it didn't go off
Reprogrammed the plipper and chalked it up to being intrinsically thick...
I thought about selling Jegger to put some money in the bank but, after some thinking, I've decided to sell my daily Citroen and press her in to service full time. In the end it was a pretty easy decision. Whipping along some back roads the other day with the engine singing and the CD player turned up loud, all I could think was 'this thing cost less than my laptop... It's brilliant!'
So, it's time to start sorting out some niggles. First off, I ordered the little cable for the air direction control knob (£5.50 from Ford) as the end had dropped of the old one. Should have that tomorrow. Secondly, thought I'd try the garage up the road that has recently opened as the rear bushes are shot. Took the car up this evening and left it with them to take a look and quote. Went back up a few hours later to hear the verdict. I won't insult the guy by trying to type an eastern European accent, but his verdict was 'Good car but it makes a bad noise! I drove it and thought that the rear axle might fall off!' He then apologised that he couldn't get the parts in TONIGHT to fix it before MORNING!!! That is one proper open all hours garage!! Anyway, he's quoted £100 + parts (that he pointed out were cheap, I'm not sure if the labour is cheap for the job but I didn't fancy doing it so it's cheap to me) and I can pick it up after midday tomorrow. Will be interesting to see what their work is like.
Can't wait to get the new (less noisy) jegger back!