New Car

As I mentioned last week my car decided to have an eppy fit with regards to the SatNav and so today I've got to take the car to the garage and try and get it sorted.

I'm at the garage for 8 am (just) after battling with the rush hour traffic into Oxford and happily drop my car off and pick up the loan car that I'd booked for the day. It's another BMW, only this time a 3 series (318 ti). It's also a petrol rather than a diesel. It's not a bad drive, but with the cushty suspension and quiet engine it's a bit like driving an american car and it certainly lacks the grunt that the turbo affords me in my car. None the less, it still handles well around corners and roundabouts, and is certainly a step up from the Ford Ka I had previously on loan from the garage.

I spend the rest of the day hanging around waiting for the garage to ring to tell me my car has been fixed. And boy was it a long wait. I get a fidgety at around 3.30 pm and give them a ring to see how it's going. Apparently the car is in the middle of having all of its software upgraded and once they've done that they of course have to test it (like any good software release eh?!). So I go back to waiting and I finally get the call at 5.40pm to say that my car was ready if I wanted to pick it up, but they close at 6pm. Not much use for me because it will probably take at least 45 mins to get to the garage in the rush hour traffic.

So I arrange to pick my car up tomorrow morning at 9.30, which is ok except I forget that I'm suppose to be at a training course at 10 am. I aint gonna make both picking up the car and getting to the course in time so I guess I will cancel the course and rebook it for another time - I'd rather have my car back than learn about tax and stuff :)

The evening is whiled away by getting fish and chips and taking Phil out for a drive in the loan car to see what he thinks. I reckon we are both of the opinion that my car is nicer, and has substantially more gizmos than you could shake a goose at.

Ah well, I guess that's what happens when you option up a car to the extent whereby you only missed one or two things off the list :)

Posted by Abi on the October 10, 2005 5:00 PM