Well, a fairly easy last couple of days to round the week off. Thursday saw me in Kingston-upon-Thames and Andover and today I have been loading the van for our run to Spain tomorrow. Mind you I say loading the van. I loaded it, un-loaded it and reloaded it, couldn't get it all in properly first time around. All done now though and off to find some sunshine in the morning.
Friday, 18 November 2011
Wednesday, 16 November 2011
That was my day - that was
Well not such a long day today. Left home at about 12:15pm, ran down to Slough to load and up to Manchester. 404 miles, 1 sandwich and 1 cup of coffee later back home at 9:30pm. Traffic in Manchester was naff!
Tuesday, 15 November 2011
That was my day - that was
Well, up at 6am and after a bowl of cornflakes and a cup of tea on the road 30 minutes later. A quick run up to Preston and then on to Stockport and from there to Long Eaton in Notts. From Long Eaton to Lincoln and from Lincoln to Leicester. Leicester to home. 475 miles later I arrived back home at 8:30pm. A pretty normal day if you drive for a living. Oh yea. 1 sandwich, 1 cup of coffee and about £90 in fuel.
Friday, 11 November 2011
I've got a heater!
I've been driving around the country with a seized up heater control. Seized on cold! Not too bad on short journeys but if you have to run to Wales and back a different story.
The heater control, hot to cold, seized up on the van a few weeks ago and I have just managed to get it fixed. It meant that the dashboard had to come out and I decided that I wasn't going to do it, too cold out there at the moment, so I took it into my local friendly mechanic. He quoted me £250.00 plus parts which from Mercedes were nearly £300.00. I did a quick Ebay search, the source of everything you could ever need, and got the bits needed for £60.00. The van went in to the workshop yesterday evening at 5pm so that the mechanic could get an early start this morning and I collected it at 4pm today and guess what, the heater WORKS!! Yippeeee. It's great.
You don't realise how much you use the heater until you haven't got one. Back in the 60's a lot of cars, certainly the old bangers I could afford weren't fitted with heaters and you went out in the winter dressed as if you were going mountaineering and these days if it isn't fitted with full air con you don't want it. How times have changed.
The heater control, hot to cold, seized up on the van a few weeks ago and I have just managed to get it fixed. It meant that the dashboard had to come out and I decided that I wasn't going to do it, too cold out there at the moment, so I took it into my local friendly mechanic. He quoted me £250.00 plus parts which from Mercedes were nearly £300.00. I did a quick Ebay search, the source of everything you could ever need, and got the bits needed for £60.00. The van went in to the workshop yesterday evening at 5pm so that the mechanic could get an early start this morning and I collected it at 4pm today and guess what, the heater WORKS!! Yippeeee. It's great.
You don't realise how much you use the heater until you haven't got one. Back in the 60's a lot of cars, certainly the old bangers I could afford weren't fitted with heaters and you went out in the winter dressed as if you were going mountaineering and these days if it isn't fitted with full air con you don't want it. How times have changed.
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